Taking 4,500 steps per day can help extend a person's life, a study has suggested. Research from The University of North Carolina looked into the walking habits of more than 16,000 women and found that those over 60 who took more than 2,000...
An elderly couple were shocked to discover that the "gorgeous pate" they were eating was actually cat food. Angela Holloway has been delivering shopping for her mother and step-father Margaret and Donald Lincoln throughout the pandemic...
A man attempted to fast for 40 days so God could gift him with a Lamborghini. The church youth leader from Zimbabwe was desperate to get an Italian supercar after his girlfriend told him that it was her "dream car". According to local...
Robert Mugabe's widow has been fined five cows and two goats because of the way she buried her husband. A traditional court, which can't formally punish the accused but whose decisions have a strong symbolic impact, met last week to settle...
A death row inmate asked to have a single olive for his last meal. Victor Feguer was executed in the US state of Iowa in 2001 having been convicted of murder back in 1963 and made the unusual meal request in the hope that an olive tree would sprout...
NEW YORK – Israel’s attempt to justify its latest brutal assault on Gaza rings hollow to anybody familiar with events in Israel, where the government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, backed by anti-Arab racists, has systematically...
NEW YORK – In June 2019, Facebook made a daring announcement: within a year, it would launch a new global currency, the Libra. The idea was to offer an alternative to national currencies in cross-border transactions, and to provide a payment...
WASHINGTON, DC – The COVID-19 pandemic will not truly end until everyone has access to vaccines, including people in the poorest countries. Worldwide vaccination offers the best hope for stopping the spread of infections, saving lives, and...
NEW YORK – After the most severe global recession in decades, private and official forecasters are increasingly optimistic that world output will recover strongly this year and thereafter. But the coming expansion will be unevenly distributed...
The International Labour Organization (ILO) Caribbean Office recently hosted a three-day virtual conference to discuss policies and actions to improve how job markets can build long-term resilience to ongoing climate risks and the COVID-19 pandemic...
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...
The career of Pamela Monroe Ellis has never been something the public has called into question, the Auditor General, seeming to stay the very necessary middle ground for her job to be absent any political interference. In a phrase, the office of...
For a wife and mother, the story of her husband being shot to death during a manhunt for famed Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, has not ended, even after 11 years. For the watching public, there have been many reasons...
When Spragga Benz appeared in the 2002 film ‘Shottas’ as Wayne, his talent was clear. Unlike many, his portrayal of an inner-city Kingpin did not seemed forced in a word, it was believable. “Missa Anderson, Missa Anderson...
The name Neville Myton might not readily come to mind when you look back at the greats of middle-distance running the world over, but when you take a look at his impact on Jamaica’s track and field programme after his retirement, you mightn...
The biblical phrase, ‘a child shall lead them’, has been repeated many times since the writing of the New Testament some time after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. On many of those occasions, the recital speaks to the...
Jamaica, finishing in the top-10 of the Miss Jamaica Universe is not a common feat. In fact, the country has only managed to do so eight times since 1961. So, you can imagine the pride the country felt when Miqueal-Symone Williams strutted into the...
Senator Kamina Johnson Smith may have thought the weeks-long pressure she came under after her announcement that she faced harassment at the hands of an unnamed Senator back in 2014 and again in 2018 had come to an end when she named the accused,...
Jamaica is producing supermodels at what is perhaps an unrivalled rate for a country of its population size. But to start it all, there was Althea Laing. Laing was the first woman from Jamaica to make the cover of a major international magazine...
Women forming parts of the boardrooms that serve to shape the country in which we live has become more and more prevalent. Leading that more-than-welcome change in this generation is GraceKennedy Foods International Business, Chief Executive...
Judy Mowatt is a global superstar by any stretch of the imagination and this lies outside of her work with the I-Threes and Reggae legend Bob Marley. In fact, Mowatt is the first female reggae artiste to be nominated for a Grammy Award. There aren...
When Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce hurtled down the track as a schoolgirl, the brilliant career that would follow was not a foregone conclusion. She wasn’t the best schoolgirl athlete but her spirit meant failure was never going to be an option. By...
Vice-President of the United States, Kamala Harris has consistently said, that while she has been the first to achieve many things as a woman, she won’t be the last. In Jamaica, a woman born more than 100 years earlier, believed the same...
Bob Marley’s final resting place, the sleepy village of Alexandria, stands in stark contrast to the larger-than-life existence of the 36-year-old. And maybe in stark contrast to the attention the first of his two funerals on May 21, 1981...
Controversy surrounding decisions to award one beauty or another in competitions of that nature are not abnormal, after all, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. But when 20-year-old Lilliana Antoinette Cisneros announced her Venezuelan heritage...
