With an 80 per cent voter turnout, JLP secured more than half of the seats in the 1980 election. Voters were encouraged to go out early and vote, and they did just that. Both parties knew their fate even before the official count had ended.
There were mixed emotions from Gilbrator evacuees as they arrived on Jamaican shores. While some were happy to have escaped the turmoil, others were saddened by the fact that they might not see their loved ones again. Published Saturday, October 26...
The opening and dedication of Gordon House was a grand affair for both legislators as well as the ordinary Jamaicans that lined the streets on October 26, 1960. It was indeed a milestone in Jamaica's history and marked a new era of governance....
Thousands gathered to witness the union of 17 couples. The idea behind the mass ceremony was to encourage poor couples to formalise their unions . Planner and host Mrs Mary Morris Knibb and her Jamaica Women's Liberal Club feted the couples at...
The JLP created history at the polls as they battered the PNP in the general election. Unseating veteran MPs and securing their seats, the party is set to occupy at least 50 of the 60 posts in Parliament. Published Friday, October 31, 1980 ...
Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' are descendants of the hippos owned by the infamous Colombian drug lord, and a Cincinnati federal court order has granted them legal rights, as they are "interested persons". The case...
Alcor, a firm in the US state of Arizona, market themselves as world leaders in cryonics – the process of freezing a body after death so it can be brought back to life. Corpses and brains are frozen in liquid nitrogen after a person dies,...
Astronauts can grow three inches during space missions.Weightlessness allows their spines to straighten and makes people who have travelled into space 'grow', but the spine is soon crunched back to normal by gravity on Earth and leaves...
A new study has revealed that 40 per cent of males seeking a long-term partner will mention a canine in their profile, as experts say the animals make men appear masculine and dominant, while it signals that if they can look after a pet, they could...
Jiveben Valabhai Rabari, who resides in Gujarat, and her husband Valjibhai Rabari welcomed a son named Lalo last month. Rabari had been told by doctors not to risk going through a pregnancy at her age, but she was desperate to have a child after 45...
LONDON: Climate change is the ultimate test of whether it is possible for countries both to compete for global dominance and collaborate to save the world. If the United States and China cannot work together on this issue, they cannot work together...
NEW YORK: Colin Powell, former US national security adviser, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and secretary of state, who died at the age of 84, was a quintessential American, the son of immigrants. He was forever upbeat, someone who advised...
NEW YORK: In a global economy increasingly fuelled by credit, the market for private debt has emerged as a new frontier for yield-hungry investors. The close bilateral relationships that are a feature of this market offer unique opportunities for...
CAMBRIDGE: Inflation is now on the front page of newspapers around the world, and for good reason. Prices of more and more goods and services are increasing in a manner not seen for decades. This inflationary spike, accompanied by actual and feared...
BRATISLAVA: COVID-19 has accelerated the digitalisation of the global economy. According to OECD estimates, nearly one-third of all jobs globally are likely to be transformed by technology in the next decade. And the World Economic Forum estimates...
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...
Religious beliefs gone wrong JAMAICA IS reputed to have more churches per capita – 1,600 and growing – than any other country in the world. Even though that statistical claim has been challenged by sceptics, the fact is that...
Survivor: Breast cancer won’t rob my kids of their mom 25 Oct 2021/Olivia Brown WHEN JODI-ANN Blackwood Maxwell’s 27-year-old mother died from cancer when she was nine, she said life was hard. But the experience of growing up...
A MONTH after he registered an entity with the same name as the Government’s Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) that he led, Cecil Cornwall told his executive to get its house in order because they could be audited, meeting records...
Inmates, get vaxxed! Advocate concerned about increase in COVID-19 cases in the prison WITH A rise in COVID19 cases at t he St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and no yield to calls for the release of some low-risk inmates, Carla Gullotta...
SURPRISE CATCH! As deportation loomed, Haiti assassination suspect was under average security 22 Oct 2021/Andre William PLANS FOR the deportation of Mario Antonio Palacios Palacios, one of the key suspects behind the July 7 assassination of then...
Legal battle looms over workplace vaccine policy 21 Oct 2021/Tenesha Mundle/Staff Reporter A THREE-MONTH-PREGNANT woman and an anaemic colleague who is reportedly preparing for surgery are among five women who have filed a constitutional...
Golding: Crack whip on rogue public officials Opposition leader laments seeming impunity after damning probes 20 Oct 2021/Editorial@gleanerjm.com LEADER OF the Opposition Mark Golding has expressed concern that Jamaica’s leading anti-...
BLOODY HELL Three dead after throats slit during ark-boarding ritual in Paradise 19 Oct 2021/ Janet Silvera THE BLOODSTAINED concrete where Tanicka Gordon, the woman who was reportedly sacrificed in a bizarre ritual in St James on Sunday, was...
General Colin Campbell was deeply connected to Jamaica. He was born in the US to immigrant parents from Top Hill, St Elizabeth. In his book, My American Dream, Powell wrote about his family and how he saw generations of constructive, productive...
