Windsor Forest, east Portland In a bid to ensure that early childhood education is provided to children living in a remote community in eastern Portland, a group of volunteers are trying to rehabilitate the 70-year-old Windsor Forest Basic School....
Parents can sometimes influence the career selection process of their children. If you asked a doctor or a lawyer today why they chose that career, many may say they wanted to follow in a parent’s footsteps or that a parent encouraged them to...
An international development foundation aiming to raise more than US$200 million for Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville, Manchester, will be officially launched this month. The United States-based Northern Caribbean University...
A parallel diaspora conference has been announced by organisers for June 16-19, coinciding with the 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference to be held at the Montego Bay Conference Center in Montego Bay, St James. Billed as the ‘First Biennial...
WESTERN BUREAU: ANGLICAN BISHOP of Jamaica Dr Howard Gregory says the mere reduction of crime statistically will not address the longstanding problem of criminality that has plagued the nation for decades. Speaking at last week’s official opening...
WESTERN BUREAU: Five years after a harrowing ordeal that shook the parish of St Elizabeth, 63-year-old Joan Crumbs* has now decided to publicly speak about a brutal sexual assault that almost claimed her life after it triggered an asthma attack....
Untested and underreported bacteria-related sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are at the root of many reproductive and vaginal health issues affecting mothers and their newborns. And according to one microbiologist, there is a particularly...
A homeowner who complained for nearly a decade about the nuisance caused by a sewage pumping station erected next to his property has been awarded nearly $6 million in damages for breaches of contract. The award was made by the Supreme Court in a...
A former employee of the National Irrigation Commission Ltd (NIC), whose employment was terminated in December 2008, has been given the green light by the Court of Appeal to present evidence in the Supreme Court almost 17 years later. Karen Thames...
Almost two years after the Government offered $700 million in loans to players in the transportation and entertainment sectors hit by the COVID-19 crunch, only just over $1 million of the funds has been disbursed. The low take-up of the offer has...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) yesterday headed off a row with workers that would have resulted in industrial action, which was triggered by a decision of Canopy Insurance to impose a further 10 per cent increase in the cost for health...
ST JAGO High School has again proven themselves to be the all-island champions in Television Jamaica’s Schools’ Challenge Quiz (SCQ) competition after defeating Calabar High School in Thursday night’s final. The tense showdown inside the studios of...
WESTERN BUREAU: “WE ARE asking for life; non-eligibility before 50 years.” That was the plainly stated sentence proposed in the St James Circuit Court on Friday by prosecutor Andrea Martin-Swaby for Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the 2017...
Principal Shernet Clarke Tomlinson is very aware of the many negative stereotypes people have of the West Kingston inner city in which the Edward Seaga Primary School is located. However, she told The Gleaner that those negative perceptions are not...
JAMAICA COLLEGE (JC) school board chairman Lance Hylton and acting headmaster Wayne Robinson say operations at the school remain normal, following Thursday's protest, and seeming discontent by some of the institution's old boys. No more than nine...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PRESIDING judge in the case of Shamoya Green voiced clear exasperation on Friday that the defendant has not been given any mental-health treatment since her arrest. Green is accused of throwing her five-month-old daughter off...
ALLIANCE INVESTMENTS Management Limited (AIML) has been freed of charges over alleged breaches of the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA). Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks on Thursday dismissed 17 POCA charges against the company after he upheld a no-...
WESTERN BUREAU: RENEGOTIATING WITH the Jamaican Government for “liveable wages” on behalf of educators took precedence during the final day of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) 60th anniversary Education Conference as six president-elect...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE JOINTWOOD community in St Elizabeth may be a mostly quiet farming district, but the testimony of residents suggests that it is a far cry from its former glory days as an agricultural hub in the traditional ‘bread-basket’ parish...
The St Catherine-based St Jago High School has maintained its standing as all-island champions of Television Jamaica’s Schools' Challenge Quiz (SCQ) competition, topping Calabar High School in a tight final match up last night. After a sudden...
Senior Deputy Director of Prosecutions Andrea Martin-Swaby is reminding the public, specifically offenders in gun crimes, that they can obtain a sentence below the mandatory minimum of 15 to 20 years, if they assist the police in a “meaningful way...
WESTERN BUREAU: “I’VE NEVER wished death on anyone until I met Gregory. You honestly make me feel sick to my stomach. You have shown no remorse for slaughtering my niece like an animal.” That was the grim admission made by Nickeda Gray in her...
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, Robert Hall, assisted by relatives, was busy chopping down trees from around his home in Kingsworth, Jacks Hill, St Andrew, in an effort to prevent the raging fire that had started the day before from...
Members of the Jamaican diaspora have been given all of 10 reasons to register and participate in the 10th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference, slated for June 16 to June 19 in Montego Bay, St James. The theme for this year’s conference is ‘...
The Pamela Monroe Ellis-led Auditor General’s Department has placed climate-change related projects and the effectiveness of the country’s spending in that area under the microscope. A performance audit is now in progress with focus on the...
