Single mom seeks help to complete brain operation 12 Nov 2021Asha Wilks SAIDIAN TOWNSEND had her dreams of a relaxing vacation dashed when she suddenly began feeling ill just days after landing in Trinidad and Tobago in 2019. With the illness...
Some residents of Accompong Town are not pleased with their chief's style of leadership. Complaints are that persons are subjected to physical and verbal abuse once they question the leader's rulings. A resident who did not want to be...
Drowning heartbreak Councillor laments school chaos as teen dies in river 10 Nov 2021/Ruddy Mathison WITH TWO of her children at her side on Tuesday, Amorel Wright screamed at the Rio Cobre, her agonising cry personifying the St...
Some principals are still unclear on how the Sixth Form Pathways Programme will work. Based on the ministry's orders, principals will have to find space for those students they cannot accommodate beyond grade 11. They will also be tasked with...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past's line-up of cartoons as...
President of Columbia, along with his wife, daughter, and foreign minister, arrived on the island on the morning of November 12, 1993, and left in the afternoon. The reason for his visit was to sign the Maritime Delimation Treaty.
During a short visit, Colombian president Cesar Gaviria signed the Maritime Treaty. The president met with the governor-general and discussed future plans and partnerships between Columbia and Jamaica and the region by extension. Published...
Described as the greatest day in Jamaica's sporting history, Prime Minister P.J.Patterson permitted an islandwide celebration with the announcement of a holiday after Jamaica became the first country in the English-speaking Caribbean to make it...
Alexander Bedward was known in Jamaica and different parts of the world as the 'Prophet'. Bedward was credited for performing acts of healing through the 'healing stream'. However, after organising a procession on the Liguanea Plain...
Government ministers and scores of Jamaicans lined the streets to celebrate the return of the World Champion, Michael McCallum. McCallum was victorious in his fight against Sean Mannion, making him the first Jamaican to win a world boxing title....
An unnamed female, who is in her 30s, spent several days acting in a strange manner due to a rare complication of COVID-19, as she also drank shower gel and washed her clothes in a toilet. A relative had brought her into hospital in Qatar, as they...
A new study has found that men in heterosexual relationships feel more pain than females after a break-up, and are also more likely to discuss heartbreak. The Lancaster University study looked at more than 184,000 people and discovered that males...
Peter Kigen had been pronounced dead in November 2020 and was about to have the blood drained from his body when he awoke in terror. Kigen, from Kenya, was thought to have died from a 'stomach ailment' several hours previously, but regained...
CHICAGO – “The ugly American,” the title of a novel published in 1958 by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, entered the language to refer to boorish American officials abroad who sought to improve the lives of natives without...
CHICAGO: In 1984, the late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gave a lecture on why Roe v Wade, the Court’s 1973 decision recognising a constitutional right to abortion, was wrongly decided. The case, she explained, should...
MUNICH: Inflation seems to be on everyone’s mind nowadays. The debate usually centres on whether America’s massive monetary and fiscal stimulus will de-anchor inflation expectations and cause prices to spin out of control. But...
NEW YORK: South Africa is at a crossroads. To save its democratic project, it needs to put itself on a path to inclusive, dynamic growth, creating a virtuous cycle that delivers on Nelson Mandela’s promise of “a better life for...
LONDON: The threat COVID-19 poses to human health is now well understood around the world. In contrast, the enormous health threat of global warming, with its broad array of persistent impacts on our well-being, is under-recognised and poorly...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past's line-up of cartoons as...
AS PRIMARY schools prepare for the resumption of faceto-face classes today, several long-standing issues continue to plague administrations. Rennock Lodge All-Age School is one of the 376 institutions that have been cleared for reopening. Acting...
REID CLAN ACQUIRED $45M PROPERTY AMID CMU PROBE Finance ministry mum on possible forfeiture action 7 Nov 2021/Livern Barrett WHILE INVESTIGATORS probed their alleged involvement in the multimilliondollar fraud uncovered at the...
‘We’re not animals’ LGBTQ+ community appeals for compassion from mental-health practitioners 6 Nov 2021/Asha Wilks SEVERAL MEMBERS of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer community are lobbying for Jamaican...
Stink rising over Riverton land row Settlers resisting eviction bid 5 Nov 2021/Andre Williams A tractor clears land in Riverton City amid a simmering dispute between property owners and informal settlers in the western St Andrew community....
TRAFFIC CHAOS Injunction on excess fines after 2006 throws open conundrum 4 Nov 2021/Janet Silvera A TEMPORARY injunction by the Supreme Court preventing the police from issuing traffic tickets in excess of fines as at 2006 has put the country in a...
Craft vendors refuse jabs despite risk of no cruise biz 3 Nov 2021/Ainsworth Morris DESPITE THE Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) warning that only vaccinated stakeholders in Port Royal will benefit directly from a cruise call by the Nieuw...
