Fatigued by dithering across political administrations for almost a decade, a coalition of deep-pocketed investors has pulled out of a multibillion-dollar commercial project that was targeted as the axis of the redevelopment of downtown Kingston....
One hundred-year-old Mavis ‘Aunty’ Little has created a life and legacy esteemed by many. The cheerful centenarian recently went down memory lane with The Gleaner, as she sat on her verandah, just beside a blooming orchid, at her Gordon Town, St...
Consultant bioethicist Dr Derrick Aarons has described as “unfortunate” that 70 per cent of Jamaicans canvassed in an RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll are opposed to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccination has been a thorny issue...
The Kingston Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is appealing for financial assistance to alleviate a “crisis situation as its revenue has dried up owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. The YMCA is acclaimed for transforming the lives of thousands...
Enrolment in major universities across Jamaica has remained within normal parameters, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and a shift to online learning. The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona registrar, Dr Donovan Stanberry, told The Gleaner that...
PRINCIPAL OF Epsom Basic School in St Mary, Carleta Thomas-Douglas, has asserted that though online instruction is not ideal for young children, its effectiveness could significantly improve if parents are more involved in the process. “Some don’t...
Construction of a 60-bed field hospital at The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is “moving steadily” with a month-end completion deadline in sight. The private-sector initiative is being spearheaded by group CEO of the RJRGLEANER...
After 10 months, the Gordon Town main road in St Andrew has been fully reopened to vehicular traffic, bringing relief to residents who hassled to travel to work and move goods and construction material to their homes. Cabinet approved a $187-...
President of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Lloyd Distant is urging members of the business community to utilise the framework set out in a joint private-sector advisory as a template for workplace COVID-19 vaccination policies. The five-...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has asserted that there isn’t a great deal of vaccine hesitancy in his St Andrew West Central constituency. He said constituents are not “hardened opposed” to getting vaccinated against COVID-19, but have taken on a...
Administrators at Edward Seaga Primary School in Kingston are seeking to increase participation of students in remote learning for the academic year that began on Monday. Acting principal Shernet Clarke-Tomlinson told The Gleaner that...
Inspectors contracted by the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) are bemoaning delayed compensation, a situation that has left them unwilling to re-engage with the quality-assurance watchdog. The NEI’s mandate is to assess the standards attained...
A leading think tank has proposed that the impact of the COVID-19-induced school closure be addressed while the island simultaneously looks towards the start of the new school year next week and assesses prospects for the resumption of face-to-face...
Jamaican hospital administrators exhaled on Monday as new supplies of oxygen flowed into cylinders, breathing new life into a healthcare system starved of reserves amid a suffocating wave of coronavirus infections. Predawn collection of imported...
As COVID-19 infections streak across Jamaica at lightning speed, parents have been warned to safeguard preteens against the virus, with a paediatrician at the Bustamante Hospital for Children citing a troubling uptick in cases. A third wave of the...
Before the vaccination site at the Mona Ageing and Wellness Centre at the University of the West Indies, Mona, was opened yesterday morning, more than 50 people were already eagerly in line to receive the single-shot Johnson...
The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is appealing to the health ministry to facilitate the vaccination of children 16 and older against COVID-19 without parental consent. Some 200,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines have been earmarked by...
Sixty-nine-year-old Amanda Burton resides in New Haven, St Andrew, with her 32-year-old daughter, who has a disability. Early-morning thunder and strong winds triggered by an approaching Tropical Storm Grace on Tuesday jolted her into preparation...
The contribution of women to the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was on Tuesday highlighted during the 12th annual Marcus Garvey lecture, on the 134th anniversary of his birth. Garvey started the UNIA in 1914 and was Jamaica’s first...
Ninety-two per cent of females have missed school or work for three days due to severe pain associated with menstruation, in the absence of a pelvic disease, a recent study has revealed. Dysmenorrhea, as the condition is known, is one of the most...
Twenty-six-year-old Rejeen Morrison was admitted in hospital on March 11 for diabetic ketoacidosis, a complication associated with lupus. Morrison has several comorbidities, including trigeminal neuralgia, idiopathic autoimmune hepatitis,...
Jamaica-born nurse Dr Sandra Lindsay is urging the Government to determine the main reasons Jamaicans are hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine in order to provide practical solutions and boost take-up amid rising infection numbers in the...
Grassroots Windrush organisations in the United Kingdom (UK) have renewed calls for a cessation or moratorium on deportation flights until the Windrush Scandal is fully addressed. At least 30 Jamaicans have been issued deportation orders for a...
As the Government prepares for the possibility of the full resumption of face-to-face education in September, public-health experts and educators are expressing concern about the health and safety of students, the majority of whom commute via...
Jamaican senior citizens age 75 years and older received their first monthly payout of $3,400 under the new Social Pension Programme on July 22. Some $800 million has been allocated in this fiscal year to implement the programme, which targets...
