With a build-up of debris, including fallen bamboo stalks and garbage, preventing the free flow of water in the Cave River during periods of heavy rainfall, Hugh Johnson is seeking the assistance of donor agencies to conduct a river-cleaning...
Carlton Francis and Petrolin Blair’s heart-warming love story has moved donors to give the vulnerable couple a place to call home as an early Valentine’s Day gift. The 62-year-olds, who have been together for 18 years, work in downtown Kingston’s...
The January 20 ransomware breach at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is expected to be resolved soon as administrators and the state-run cyber response team work assiduously to complete ongoing systems improvements. Byron Buckley, NCU’s head of...
FARMERS WHO have been benefiting from the Water Harvesting and Greenhouse Cluster Project in Watt Town, St Ann, are disheartened that after almost seven years since the initiative started, there has not been worthwhile profit generation. Watt Town...
Farmers at Glenister Estate Limited in Grange Lane, Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, have expressed concern that there is little demand for their produce in the local area, forcing them to rely on mostly foreign revenue. Last Wednesday, The Gleaner...
A total of three break-ins that occurred last month in the New Grange, Woodford area of East Rural St Andrew continue to haunt the shopkeepers and bar owners who were victims of the crime and who were temporarily made destitute last December....
Residents in the Woodford, Freetown district of St Andrew East Rural, located at an elevation of about 3,000 feet above sea level, are already celebrating the installation of the community Wi-Fi hotspot that was unveiled on Monday. This was...
Author Valrie Kemp-Davis sets out to issue a commemorative version of her children’s book ‘ Jamaican Mi Seh Mi ABCs’ in honour of Black History Month, which is celebrated in February. The inspiration for writing the story’s first edition arose...
In response to outrage at dug-up roadways and sidewalks near Bay Farm Road in Kingston, the National Water Commission (NWC) has emphasised that the works being undertaken are for the greater good of householders and the business community. The...
Fear has gripped residents of Lowell Avenue in Duhaney Park after two men on a motorbike sprayed members of a household in the community with bullets yesterday afternoon. The Gleaner understands that four persons suffered bullet wounds and were...
DEVON JAMES, a wicker craftsman from Fairfield district in the cool highlands of Point Hill, St Catherine, still has a burning passion for constructing practical, everyday furniture and home decor products some three decades later. He has fashioned...
A suspected arson attack on Tuesday morning at approximately 10 a.m. has left 15 persons in White Lane in Naggo Head, Portmore, displaced. Homeowner Collette Williams, 56, told The Gleaner on Wednesday that she believes that the house was set...
Water woes that have plagued the Watermount and Pedro communities of West Central St Catherine for years are expected to be resolved soon, with phase one of the project to pump water into the area on schedule to be completed by March, said Omar...
The Tacius Golding High School in St Catherine is aiming to boost the efficiency of farmers in the surrounding Brown’s Hall community in ginger production, with a greenhouse that it has built to produce the potent root crop on a commercial scale....
Residents in St Catherine West Central are overjoyed about the installation of a new bridge, which has replaced the antiquated, unsafe one that served as Watermount and other neighbourhoods’ only connection to other community corridors and the main...
Last year, Keronique Palmer’s Christmas wish was simply to be able to continue to pursue her medical career. However, the first-year medical student was unable to pay her tuition fees, which totalled $4,349,800 (US$28,000). With an outstanding...
Administrators at the Norman Gardens Primary School in Kingston held a spelling bee competition on Thursday to help restore some school spirit, while also challenging the intellect of their students, who had been out of the classroom for almost two...
Eleven-year-old Roy-J Francis wishes for the crime and violence in his Jones Town community to come to an end. He was in attendance at the first staging of a seven-week- long series of development and life-skills training funded by the United...
Past participants drafted into the Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) to become agents of positive change in their communities are expressing frustration at delays in getting their certificates after completing the yearlong military-like journey...
Residents in Waterhouse, St Andrew, are outraged at the state of community corridors linked to Bay Farm Road amid the installation of sewerage pipes. The affected roads are Dahlia and Verbena avenues, where work has been ongoing since December,...
Although Edmund ‘Eddie’ Reid has passed away, his works and legacy will live on as one of the very few black violinists to have graced the stages of orchestras across the United Kingdom. Reid died at age 85 on December 13, 2021, following a brief...
Andrae Artwell, a former St Catherine High School student who is now a successful entrepreneur in the United States, donated two school rings to the institution’s 2021 top achievers last Wednesday. The passionate old boy, who graduated in 2007,...
The youth of Jones Town and nearby communities in south St Andrew have started to benefit from a seven-week series of development and life skills training aimed at increasing economic opportunities and reducing youth involvement in crime and...
In a deadly twist of fate, two men were fatally shot while allegedly attempting to plunder a worksite at which they were employed in Bull Bay, St Andrew, after running into other co-workers with similar intentions on Tuesday night. The deceased –...
The Reverend Canon Peter Mullings has been lauded in death as a stalwart of the Anglican Church for almost six decades, striking a balance as family man and mentor to youths. The 85-year-old cleric passed away at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday after visiting...
