Immaculate Conception High School, Jamaica’s top-performing school, is not waiting for the Government to make good on a previously promised school-bus system that would assist in providing safety and convenience of its girls and educators. With...
Filth and days of unchanged diapers will assault your senses when approaching the dilapidated one-room structure glaucoma patients Hugh Wauchope, 75, and Lorna Allen, 68, had no choice but to settle into at 11 Miles in Bull Bay, St Andrew, 19 years...
While murders in Jamaica dipped by 12 per cent up to last month when compared to the same period last year, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen wants the fall to be even greater. Since the start of the year, 141 fewer people were killed when...
IN AN effort to improve literacy in the 248 underperforming schools islandwide, the Ministry of Education and Youth is targeting a five per cent increase in performance over the next three years. Fayval Williams, minister of education and youth,...
Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has called on his counterpart Opposition spokesman to discuss their differences after the latter took offence to comments made by the minister and announced he was withdrawing from the Transport Sector Committee on...
In the aftermath of a bizarre incident Saturday night, a man yesterday remained in police lockup having engaged in a short-lived joyride with a Mercedes Benz GLE 53, valued approximately J$35 million, on the compound of Stewart’s Automotive Group...
When Jeneail Henry, a 17-year-old trackstar from Wolmer’s High School for Girls, went to the CIBC FirstCaribbean Walk for the Cure 5K on Sunday, her main goal was just to outshine her schoolmates for the fun of it, not to become the winning female...
Despite not being able to save one of five women from a fiery crash in April 2022, Keith Nugent and Ruel Grant remained grateful yesterday after receiving the only two Badges of Honour for Gallantry at King’s House on National Heroes Day. After...
After a 19-per-cent fare increase came into effect for public transport operators yesterday morning, numerous Corporate Area passengers complained that they were being charged varying fees, some not in accordance with those outlined by the...
With Jamaica recording a decline of 12 per cent in murders since the start of 2023, when compared to last year, Reverend Astor Carlyle, pastor at Webster Memorial United Church, believes that members of the RJRGLEANER Communications Group can help...
Immediately after Hansle Parchment was handed the key to the township of Morant Bay, St Thomas, on Monday, the Olympian was speechless. Although the Morant Bay High School alumnus was appreciative of the honour made possible by his alma mater and...
IF THERE is one Jamaican you will meet who is grateful about being laid off three years ago during the pandemic, that is entrepreneur and twice teenage mother Shally Hall. After being laid off in 2020, she was introduced to the NCB Foundation’s...
Jamaal Muirhead, a former student of Denbigh High School whose story made the rounds four years ago after he was rejected a scholarship because of poor vision, has lived up to his words of making a major academic comeback with the gift of a glasses...
Two weeks after the National Water Commission (NWC) promised that work valued at $84 million would start for the repair of a broken sewage main in Harbour View, St Andrew, the residents remain disgusted with the authorities over the matter. For...
AS VIOLENCE continues to escalate in Grants Pen, St Andrew, the Shortwood Seventh-day Adventist Church, located within its environs, wants to remind bloodletters that its members will continue pressing for peace “without fear or compromise”. Mere...
Dr Elaine McCarthy, chairperson of the Jamaica Umbrella Group of Churches (JUGC), hailed the hundreds of persons who turned out for the renewal of the annual mass prayer event in Half-Way Tree Square on Sunday to intercede for the nation’s...
Camille Barrett, a Television Jamaica (TVJ) producer, hopes to see tourism arrivals and spending figures keep climbing, with more Jamaicans benefiting in the long run. In April, her manager, Judith Alberga, introduced her to the World Broadcasting...
With technology at the fingertips of Jamaican children, and the threat of adults who engage in sexual grooming through social media sites and apps, Children’s Advocate Diahann Gordon-Harrison is putting individuals overseas on notice that they can...
Tragedy struck on a sewage-filled Harbour View street in St Andrew last Tuesday after a motorist lost control of his vehicle while trying to navigate the mucky roadway. The vehicle being driven by Devon Edwards, who lived in Port Royal, reportedly...
Gary Rowe, a member of the People’s National Party (PNP) from North East Manchester’s executive group, lost his right foot six months ago, but he was determined to be physically present for the party’s 85th annual conference. Rowe, like other...
Residents of a section of Harbour View in St Andrew are frustrated with the lack of response to their pleas for relief from the stench of overflowing sewage in their community. The sewage, near the offices of West Indies Home Contractors Ltd (...
Kingston Creative’s beautification project in downtown Kingston will today receive a further boost of US$15,000 from the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) and Expedia Group to continue the mission of beautifying the previously aged spaces and enhancing...
MARK GOLDING, president of the People’s National Party (PNP), is confident that his party will be victorious at the polls in the next general election. Speaking at the PNP’s St Andrew South Constituency Conference at the Tony Spaulding Complex in...
FOR THE last three years Arianna Warren, the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation’s 2023 parish champion for Kingston, has been living without electricity and using a kerosene lamp to study at nights. After the loss of the power source to her...
It was a bittersweet send-off on Sunday for Dr Peter Phillips in the constituency of East Central St Andrew,which he has anchored for the past 29 years. Phillips resigned as constituency chairman for East Central St Andrew in February 2021....
