With recent poll findings highlighting his administration's failure to command the confidence of the majority of Jamaicans, Prime Minister Bruce Golding faces a crucial test today in Gordon House as leading trade unionists have warned he must deliver on certain commitments....
As the country celebrates Child Month, students from St Andrew prep school take their lunch break by the Kingston Waterfront after visiting several institutions during a school trip yesterday.
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller wants Prime Minister Bruce Golding to give hope to the nation when he makes his contribution to the 2011-12 Budget Debate in Parliament today....
Experts believe economic crisis and domestic problems have been contributing to severe depression and stress, the main triggers behind people choosing to end their own lives."Persons going through very stressful situations tend to complain a lot, making...
Dr Omar Davies is to be retained in the shadow Cabinet of the parliamentary Opposition, but Portia Simpson Miller, the leader of the Opposition, has given no indication whether he would keep the finance...
The annual agriculture and food show to be held at Jamaica College next Saturday will be the first test of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Jamaica...
LIKE the sun fighting its way out from behind storm clouds, the Tivoli Gardens football team's dominance at the national level has returned hope to the west Kingston community. The team captured its second trophy ...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator K.D. Knight has issued a call for the People's National Party (PNP) to lead the renewal process to restore faith in the country's political system...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Barack Obama ordered the commando raid that killed terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after deciding the risks were outweighed by the possibility "of us finally getting our man" following a decade of frustration...
LOCAL PSYCHOLOGIST Wayne Gallimore, along with self-described international ambassador of trust, Vanessa Hall, will over the next two weeks embark on a campaign to raise the trust level in the island....
Motherhood is no small feat for women who take on its mantle. Harsh economic times, a society with declining morals and a lack of parenting principles help to make it one of society's most difficult roles....
Corporal Malica Reid, the policeman who is charged with the murder of Negril businessman Frederick 'Mickey' Hill, appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Friday and his bail has been extended until July 29.
TWO UNITED Kingdom-based attorneys are said to have expressed an interest to take the case of the pregnant student constable who was barred from graduating from the Police Academy to the International Human Rights Council....
Six-year-old Shenicia Peart (left) and her 10-year-old sister, Mischa-Gail Peart, brought some joy to their mother, Michelle Peart, during Mother's Day.
Jamaica is losing important artefacts to the scrap-metal trade. Executive director of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), Lolita Davis-Mattis, said thieves have brazenly removed several pieces of artefacts...
The Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica (PSJ) is calling on the Government to put systems in place that will better manage medications in the public-health sector. Valerie Germain, president of the PSJ, said the management ...
IF HER Friday afternoon attire is anything to go by, Michelle English, president and chief operating officer of Flow, is an easy-going, open-door type manager.
A SHORTAGE of medication containing pseudoephedrine, the main ingredient in many cold and flu medicines sold in Jamaica, is being linked to the illegal manufacturing and sale of methamphetamine (commonly called meth).
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), the union that represents the island's more than 20,000 teachers, is insisting that it is not at war with the Ministry of Education, its parent ministry.
SHE HAS been visually impaired for more than two decades, but Pauline Reckord has managed to raise her children and grandchildren almost single-handedly while still doing her domestic chores.
RIO BUENO, Trelawny:Four stowaways from the Dominican Republic were caught in waters off the coast in Rio Bueno, Trelawny, yesterday morning about 8 o'clock.The men were picked up by the police who theorised that they arrived on a...
Mavis Bank, St Andrew: A dispute between two brothers within the Mavis Bank community of St Andrew early yesterday morning has left one dead and the other in hospital in serious but stable condition.
Telecommunications company LIME has just signed a concession agreement under which LIME will be able to sell wholesale services to licensed operators in the Dominican Republic.
A pharmacist who works for a local drug-distribution company in Jamaica told The Sunday Gleaner that she is mandated to submit a regular report on the quantities of the drug received to the health ministry's chief dangerous drug inspector."We have to do...
PRESIDENT OF the Court of Appeal Justice Seymour Panton says his opposition to proposed changes to the country's libel laws will not prevent him from discharging his oath of office if they are passed into law."If the Parliament were to amend the law to...
