Epican Jamaica last week unveiled 16 rare strains of cannabis to the local market. In October 1997, Epican Jamaica was one of the first two entities to have been granted licences by the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA). Its president and co-...
It was an evening of claims and refutations, agreements and disagreements, reflections and desires, and at points it got emotional and passionate. It could not be any other way, for it was the launch of long-standing social advocate Horace Levy’s...
Recently, UpRising Academy, a mobile institution, held a two-day camp at Tarrant High School in St Andrew where students were engaged in robotics and Brazilian Futsol (indoor football), which is what Jamaicans call ‘scrimmage’. It was the second...
There is no doubt about the positive impact of reggae on people from all over the world. Its hypnotic and pulsating tempo are easily recognised, and it has secured a pride of place right beside many mainstream and indigenous varieties. Indonesia is...
Corine Smith, 79, had been ailing for a brief while, but seemed to be on the path to recovery up to last Wednesday. Last Thursday morning she was rushed to the University Hospital of the West Indies after complaining of feeling unwell. There, she...
For over 17 years, Derrick ‘Black X’ Robinson has been walking as part of his campaign for national hero status for Tacky (Takyi), leader of the 1760 Easter Rebellion in St Mary. He has done at least 25 walks, sometimes in chains, lasting various...
Through the Agro-Investment Corporation, the Government has been ensuring that 20 per cent of government-owned lands is offered to young people aged 17 to 35 years old for production. And one of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ (MFA)...
On Monday, April 11, in Geneva, Switzerland, The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) elected its new bureau, with Professor Verene Albertha Shepherd of Jamaica as its chair. It happened during CERD’s 106th session in which...
The Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) was one of the places in West Africa to which Europeans would go to procure people to take them back to the West Indies to enslave them on plantations. One of the biggest ethnic groups there was the Akan in which...
On Sunday night, the Internet was buzzing when Grammy-nominated Jamaican singer Jesse Royal appeared in a mustard-and-white Tribe Nine Studios ensemble on the Grammy Awards red carpet. “Everyone loving it,” Oraine-Williamson said in reaction to...
In Part I, which was published on Monday, we introduced a man we called Loaderman, who is claiming to be an expert at ‘loading’ protection into guard rings, also known as power rings. Up to this point, he explained that some people were delving...
For decades, tourists have been coming to Jamaica for the sun, sea, sand and other things beginning with the letter ‘s’. Add to that, there is music, food, etc. But Adam Stewart of Sandals International Limited, and other tourism stakeholders are...
Ocean Cleanup Project, a new initiative to rid the highly polluted Kingston Harbour of tons of solid waste and to prevent more from washing in from the gullies that empty into it, is now being embarked upon. The pilot project is a collaboration...
As much as Minister of Education and Youth Fayval Williams tried not to get her ankle-length, milk-white dress soiled, it and her head were eventually sprinkled and splattered with green powder. And as the afternoon progressed, some other hues were...
In 1980, Steadman Banhan bought 15 acres of property at Mount Pleasant in Dean’s Valley, Westmoreland. Two years later, the property fell under the ownership of Owen ‘Bredda Man’ Banham, one of his sons. It was a thick “jungle”, which took several...
The Gloria Lyn Foundation, in association with the Department of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Mona campus, Esirom, and Trees That Feed Foundation, is now calling for entries to the 2022 Joan McLaughlin Short...
In 1972, scholar and activist Walter Rodney published his groundbreaking book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. He posited that Africa was deliberately exploited and underdeveloped by European hegemonists. One of his arguments is that Africa...
On Tuesday, February 1, when a Gleaner team spoke with Pearleta Smith in Middle Quarters, St Elizabeth, about changes in that community since 1962, she said nothing had changed. “It still the same, I don’t see no real change. It is still the same...
In St Elizabeth, there is Lovers’ Leap, the southern food belt, and Treasure Beach. In this the second largest Jamaican parish there is also Holland Bamboo, the ‘Shrimp Country’ of Middle Quarters, the Accompong Town Maroon village, YS Falls, the...
On a piece of string that ran across a small lawn space at 3 Widcombe Crescent in Liguanea, St Andrew, were pinned several pieces of “butcher paper” of various sizes. It was a Saturday afternoon, and the scene looked like a typical Caribbean...
So, the plan was to visit five places in St Elizabeth and overnight in Westmoreland to visit three more places the following day to get stories for The Gleaner’s Jamaica 60 monthly parish feature. After leaving the other members of the Gleaner team...
With a plethora of challenges ranging from climate change, diseases and a constantly dwindling youthful workforce to stiffer competition on the world markets affecting the local coffee industry, John O. Minott, general manager of Jamaica Standard...
COVID-19 and the restrictions that it places on the movement of people should have put a major dent in the illegal trade of human trafficking, but human traffickers have been finding ways to get around the hurdles created by the virus. This idea...
“I am delighted to let you know that you have been accepted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the spring 2022 semester. The admissions process was highly competitive, and students in this entering class are among the top performers in...
Nigerian high commissioner to Jamaica, Ambassador Dr Maureen Tamuno, has been in office for just over six months, and she has been very busy forging links and creating opportunities between both countries. Recently, she made a courtesy call on...
