Published:Saturday | April 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, will this Friday represent Jamaica during the official signing of the Paris climate-change agreement in New York, following last November's conference in France. Some 200 countries...
Published:Saturday | April 16, 2016 | 12:14 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, managing director of Make Your Mark Consultants, is urging Jamaican organisations not to see change as a crisis.According to Coke-Lloyd, especially with heightened technological advances, change is something that local...
Having documented the horror stories of some women who have been abused during pregnancy, Cynthia Pitter, lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Nursing, Mona, has trained more than 50 midwives in a bid to ensure that persons...
Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
University lecturer Cynthia Pitter is calling for the Government to provide assistance to the many Jamaican women who are being battered physically and otherwise by their spouses, especially at a most vulnerable stage in their lives - during...
Published:Saturday | April 2, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
A visit by the Love and Hope Ministries to the Golden Age home in Kingston will stand out in Donald Hacker's mind for a long time.The 68-year-old was among scores of golden age residents who received Easter packages last Saturday.Hacker told The...
Published:Wednesday | March 30, 2016 | 3:13 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Experts at the Meteorological Service of Jamaica have declared that, as at Tuesday of this week, their records suggested that there would be significant improvement in drought conditions.Adrian Shaw, acting head of...
Driven by her passion to see persons with learning disabilities acquire equal opportunities at the tertiary level, Samantha-Kaye Christie has taken the step to formulate a scholarship fund, which will cater to at least one student per year.The 25...
World-renowned motivational speaker Alvin Day had the attention of everyone in attendance as he addressed an Empowerment Breakfast at Knutsford Court Hotel inSt Andrew last week.Day, who drew on his own experience as a child, encouraged persons to...
A lack of fulfilment, or being the odd one out, could probably come to mind when considering youths of the Seventh-day Adventist faith, as they often refrain from secular activities on the weekend.However, Pastor Dane Fletcher, youth director for...
Senior clergymen of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church have made it clear that any decision to repeal Jamaica's buggery law will not be in alignment with the Bible, and as such, warned policymakers to keep God at the centre of their deliberations....
Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 4:49 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Their depth of knowledge about the environment coupled with the willingness to take mitigation action to combat climate change resulted in the Greater Portmore Primary School in St Catherine emerging on top during a weather and climate change quiz...
A call from the Ministry of Health for persons to do the necessary checks to mitigate against the impact of both the Zika virus (ZikV) and the H1N1 (swine flu) has not fallen on deaf ears.That is according to chief medical officer in the Ministry of...
Government red tape has been listed as one of the major obstacles that has prevented the Bustamante Hospital for Children from receiving well-need equipment to better serve the nation's children.This was the concern expressed by Orville 'Shaggy'...
Published:Saturday | March 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Despite mixed results in the first two phases, organisers of the Re-Birth Project launched the third phase of the programme and expect to bring further changes the lives of many unattached youths.The Re-Birth Project is an intervention initiative...
After many years of conceptualising its first wastewater treatment plant, the University of Technology (UTech) has launched the facility which is expected to provide risk assessments and waste minimisation studies.The facility boasts three...
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 2:20 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Jamaica is losing some of its endemic and other wildlife species to a thriving global illicit trade in endangered and protected animals, with development and poor environmental practices also contributing to the decline in these precious natural...
Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Almost a year after the law made the possession of two ounces, or less, of ganja a non-arrestable, but ticketable, offence, and some students went on a ganja-smoking spree immediately thereafter, at least one school is still grappling with students...
Published:Saturday | March 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
A well-organised, professionally efficient book launch is a treat for any guest, but when the author hasn't even started to grow facial hair, it's even more unique.Ten-year-old Shaun Brown impressed friends and family who turned out to support him...
Published:Saturday | March 12, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
There was no time for weeping and mourning. Instead, there were hugs and embraces at the Kingston Parish Church, as persons came out in their numbers to celebrate the life of master photographer Junior Dowie at a Thanksgiving Service yesterday.Erica...
Published:Saturday | March 5, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Even with more women making themselves available for representational politics, analysts have declared that they expect nothing extraordinary from female politicians, unless they are willing to assert themselves on critical issues affecting Jamaica'...
Published:Monday | February 29, 2016 | 5:45 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
For the first time in Jamaica, some children at the early-childhood level will be introduced to the Self-Organised Learning Environment (SOLE), which will see them connecting with other toddlers worldwide in a bid to enhance exposure and develop...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 10:23 PMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Phyllis Mitchell may well say goodbye to politics now. The 70-year-old's chance of making a comeback to representational politics was clipped at the polls yesterday, as her opponent Leslie Campbell emerged the winner of the St Catherine North East...
Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Schools across the country will be closed tomorrow, public transportation will roll out as usual, though progressively slower, and commercial activities are expected to be less than brisk in some places.Jamaicans are focusing on one central activity...
Published:Saturday | February 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
Bridgetown, Barbados:As countries in the Caribbean work on their inventory of greenhouse gas emissions, Ronald Jackson, executive director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), is urging governments to ensure that there is a...
Published:Friday | February 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMJodi-Ann Gilpin
While average rainfall is expected to ease the drought across the Caribbean later this year, experts are warning that areas which experienced long-term dryness will be more susceptible to hazards such as landslides and flash floods. Last year,...
