The announcement that popular but controversial pastor, Reverend Al Miller, would be conferred with a national honour sparked massive debate over the last two weeks, with many suggesting such a move would water down those awards. The Government...
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness said frontline workers like nurses would not be able to access special treatment were they to contract COVID-19, the group were understandably peeved. The temperature of the room should also have been judged...
There has been a longstanding argument for more tangible, immediate rewards to go to Olympic athletes, bearing in mind the lucrative nature of the Games for its organisers. Since the argument has largely fallen on deaf ears and seems a non-starter...
With COVID-19 infections reaching record numbers and hospitals bursting at their seams, good news must be held onto for dear life. The story of Kevin Robinson, a Clarendon man, shot as a teenager and paralyzed for life, might have begun as a...
The history of Westmoreland is long and storied. Outside of having the second oldest high school in the Western Hemisphere, the parish accounts for a great many firsts and once led the country, in terms of earning, belying the more quiet, serene...
Jamaica has, for a long time, done well at the Central American and Caribbean Games, but the pride of the countries track and field dominance was probably never more palpable than when those games were held in Kingston 59 years ago at a brand new...
One of the most prominent voices in the anti-Apartheid movement was the Right Reverend Bishop Desmond Tutu. His advocacy for the freedom of South Africa was marked and when he could single out Jamaica for its involvement in bringing attention to...
Horse racing in Jamaica is massive and as such, needs a venue as impressive as the popularity of the sport requires. All the way back in 1959, Jamaica created one such venue. Caymanas Park is the centre of all things horse racing, the venue...
When London’s Mayor was given the key to the City of Kingston in 1984, the ceremony was held in a building befitting such ceremonies. The Ward Theatre was in all its glory in the early 1980s, just take a look at this story of pomp and...
A woman has taken 1,000 driving lessons but has never passed her test because she passes out with fear behind the wheel. Isabelle Stedman has been trying to pass her test for three decades but her fear is so bad that she breaks down in tears,...
Two golfing friends hit holes-in-one in consecutive shots on the same hole and overcame odds of 17 million to one. David Giles achieved the feat at The Oaks Golf Club in York before his pal Chris Bunce did the exact same thing with the next tee...
Eating a hot dog could cost you 36 minutes of a healthy life. A University of Michigan study has evaluated more than 5,800 foods by how much they impact people's health. Choosing to eat a serving of nuts can gain a person 26 minutes of robust...
Mysterious radio waves from distant galaxies have been detected by astronomers. Breakthrough Listen, a group that has been searching for alien broadcasts for a decade, picked up the signals during a study of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a '...
A zoo in Belgium has banned a woman due to her "affair" with one of the chimpanzees. Adie Timmermans has been visiting a primate called Chita at the zoo in Antwerp every week for the past four years and has forged a strong bond with the...
PARIS – In the small northern Croatian town of Orehovica, preschoolers get together twice a week to play and learn. The classes, which include children of Roma background, are full of energy. Activities adapted to everyone’s needs have...
BERLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic has ruthlessly exposed the global food system’s deficiencies, and a massive escalating hunger crisis now looms. A quarter of humanity lacks secure access to food, with one in ten people affected by severe...
WASHINGTON, DC – No one would want to repeat the past 18 months. COVID-19, climate change, and global political developments have left tens of millions of people worse off physically and financially. The news has been filled with accounts of...
CHICAGO – A recent commentary in the Wall Street Journal exposes the dark hole into which conservative economic thinking has sunk since the pinnacle of its influence in the 1980s. Economists Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson of the...
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...
Gleaner raps those in charge of prisons for being part of the corruption that could lead to the blatant flouting of the laws by Adidja Palmer, as the entertainer, known as Vybz Kartel, produced an exclusive interview for a New York-based television...
The first Barbadian head of state will be its current Governor General, Dame Sandra Mason. Her rise to president is not set in stone and awaits parliamentary acceptance though it is a more-than-likely eventuality. In addition, Prime Minister...
Last week scenes involving plumes of smoke at the Jamalco Alumina plant in Clarendon made the rounds on social media as many speculated about, not just the damage to the plant, but whether or not there had been loss of life. Thankfully, The Gleaner...
Cruel irony would be a euphemism when the sad tale of the way People’s National Party veteran KD Knight lost his wife to COVID-19 last week. Knight has been championing a vaccine initiative, only to lose his wife of 54 years to the virus....
Whether imprisoned or not, Adidja Palmer, popularly known as Vybz Kartel finds ways to make headlines. Last week, the artiste, who has been serving a life sentence for murder, shocked authorities by conducting an interview with overseas media from...
The Government of Jamaica has now had to resort to seven days of lockdowns to stave off the debilitating impact of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, inclusive of the virulent Delta variant. There are no good pictures to paint, as, since this...
