The participation of young children in initiatives aimed at addressing issues regarding climate change must be encouraged. This sentiment was shared by Sheneka Robinson-Wright, project director, TUI Junior Academy Jamaica. Speaking with The Gleaner...
Billed as a panoramic, ocean-view, luxury development, Ocean’s Edge should have been on the market from October 2021, but it’s currently on pause, and the delays and missed deadlines have left investors fuming. Andrew James, chairman of the Real...
MEMBER OF Parliament for St Mary Western Robert Montague yesterday asked Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert if he could address an addendum from the Integrity Commission, which was tabled in Parliament earlier that...
JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck yesterday declared that Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body has no “integrity” and that government lawmakers had no confidence in the reports published by the corruption watchdog. “The commission has demonstrated a...
FORMER MINISTER of National Security Peter Bunting says his confidence in the Integrity Commission has been restored after the anti-corruption body exonerated him in an addendum to a special report, which first accused him of acting improperly in...
IN A telephone conversation with her son Evando on Sunday, Evadnie Smith expressed a burning desire to retire and return home to Jamaica. After years of working in the United States, the latter part of which she spent as a nanny, the 56-year-old...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Bible-reading, deaf Javaughn Henry, killed during a confrontation with the security forces last Saturday in Barrett Town, St James, has been positively identified as one of the executioners of two men at a bar in Caanan,...
Cooking meals out in the open on a coal stove, catching a shower in public business places and sleeping at nights in an old Nissan motor car, Lamour Pinnock is living on the edge, in direct contrast to her neighbours in the Portmore Pines housing...
A COURT is being asked to declare that businessman Norman Horne, who leads one of Jamaica’s largest construction materials companies, is responsible for the “concealed fraudulent transfer” of assets owned by Arc Systems Limited to himself or other...
A crime spree that started in Gregory Park, Portmore, Tuesday night, during which a man and a woman were abducted and forced to withdraw money from Corporate Area ATMs, ended yesterday along the Hellshire main road with the death of one of the...
WESTERN BUREAU: RESIDENTS OF Paradise in Montego Bay have expressed concern that the authorities have been slow to respond to fears of child abuse and other infractions related to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) at the Bayith Yahweh...
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte yesterday sought to allay fears among members of the religious community, disclosing that the Government did not intend to disturb any savings law clauses in the Constitution or...
WESTERN BUREAU: WORK ON Hopewell Police Station in Hanover, which started in January 2023, is now about 70 per cent complete and scheduled for completion in another few months, this according to Commissioner of Police, Antony Anderson. The...
ROBERT PICKERSGILL, the now retired former member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Western, who served seven unbroken terms as MP, believes it will be impossible to provide job descriptions for elected representatives. Job descriptions...
With no indication of the extent of a data breach and cyberattack at investment firm Mayberry, the company yesterday urged clients to take immediate steps to protect themselves “against any possible adverse consequences”. In its second notice to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mark Smith, principal of Munro College, will be declared president-elect during the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s (JTA) 59th annual conference, which will be held at the Royalton Hotel in Negril from August 21–23. He will...
FOR COUNCILLOR Donna Lumsden, a Jamaican living in the United Kingdom (UK), the road to success has not been easy. As the second of her parents’ eight children, Lumsden, in an interview with The Gleaner on Monday, detailed how quickly she had to...
DECLARING THAT it was important for Parliament to establish its own integrity, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced plans to establish a parliamentary committee to review job descriptions and a code of conduct for ministers,...
Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body, the Integrity Commission (IC), has described as unfortunate Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte’s comments in relation to its push for government ministers to sign its Leadership...
THE HEAD of one of the island’s legal associations has described as inappropriate and concerning, utterances by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck expressing disappointment at rapist Davian Bryan’s 23-year sentence. The 32-year-old sex offender, who had...
Jennifer Hayles and her family used much of Monday cleaning what was left of the Lincoln Crescent home that was gutted by a fire that tragically claimed the life of her 71-year-old father on Saturday. The inferno, which reportedly started due to a...
CHIEF OF party for the United States Department of Agriculture Food for Progress Jamaica Spices project, Dr Ronald Blake, has challenged journalists and the Jamaican public to hold his organisation accountable for delivering on the stated...
DESPITE EXPERIENCING one of the lowest moments of his life, owing to health issues that kept him in the hospital for 14 months, Dean Rhoden’s strong sense of duty to community through service remains unwavering. The Jamaica-born scouts leader has...
Justice Vinette Graham-Allen yesterday again expressed frustration at the delay being experienced in the murder case surrounding the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke. Corporal Odel Buckley, Lance Corporal Greg Tinglin, and Private...
