A psychologist and a member of the clergy are hailing Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s intention to collaborate with the Church to address mental health issues in the country as a positive initiative. But both are cautioning the Government to ensure...
Glenroy Murray, executive director of Equality for All Foundation Jamaica, is urging members of the island’s LGBTQ community to be vigilant when using online dating platforms. His warning follows a safety alert sent by Grindr, a popular LGBTQ+...
For three generations, Andrew Ellis’ family has secured a spot in the Spanish Town Market in St Catherine for their meat shop. Ellis recalled that as a teenager, he would spend a lot of weekends helping out in the establishment. But although he had...
Elina Walker had just returned home from her annual family reunion on Christmas Day in Point Hill, St Catherine, when she received news that her 30-year-old son, Michael Lawrence, had been shot dead in Banbury, Linstead. Walker told The Gleaner...
It was 5:30 a.m. on Christmas Day, and most of August Town was asleep, but its slumber was about to be disturbed by the loud and joyous carolling of the August Town Community Development Council. For the last seven days, the group has been...
Residents in Manchester communities close to the under-construction May Pen to Williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 are calling for China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), the project contractor, to give a timeline for repairs to parochial roads and...
Rameish Desouza, the 21-year-old social media influencer known for whipping up innovative dishes from ordinary Jamaican ingredients, will be opening his first restaurant in downtown Kingston early next year. He told The Gleaner that this is the...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charles Jr says he will be putting a submission to Cabinet for the formation of a special task force to tackle praedial larceny. With an estimated $6 billion lost to farm theft locally each year, the task...
Once hailed by residents as a town that never sleeps, Porus morphs into a ghost town by 6 o’clock each evening as fearful natives retreat to the safety of their homes at dusk. Since the fatal shooting of a supermarket owner and market vendor last...
Steve Ashley, chairman of the Association of Friends and Families of Substance Abusers (AFAFOSA), has argued that inadequate funding for the court mandated to treat drug addicts is contributing to the country’s crime rate. Ashley told The Gleaner...
LGBTQ advocates in Jamaica have urged the island’s lawmakers to note the wind of change blowing across the Caribbean and repeal the country’s colonial-era buggery laws that effectively criminalise same-sex relations. Local politicians have been...
While attending primary school, K-Omar Sang was teased relentlessly because of a learning disability which made reading difficult. The now-16-year-old Ronald Lopez School of Hope student told attendees at a Child Protection and Family Services...
Grammy-Award winning recording artiste Orville Burrell has expressed doubt about hosting another Shaggy Make a Difference Foundation (SMADF) benevolent concert because of the controversy surrounding the $100 million raised in the last staging in...
It was like a scene out of a movie, a resident of Cross Keys, Manchester, told The Gleaner as she recalled the horrifying experience of being held up at an establishment in which works earlier this week. The stillness in the small town square was...
The Government has given its clearest indication that it is not averse to considering a public-private partnership to build a state-of-the-art prison. The disclosure was made on Wednesday by Zavia Mayne, the state minister in the Ministry of...
A senior University of the West Indies lecturer involved in the just-launched Mona Prison Project is hoping that the programme will be expanded beyond the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to other prisons and even online. Dr Dave Gosse, who...
Visiting Qatar for the football World Cup was not on Dr Erica Gordon-Veitch’s bucket list. Though the paediatric and family dental surgeon is an ardent supporter of Brazil, she would have been more than content cheering them on from her home in...
Graduates of The Mico University College on Thursday received a lecture on the importance of people development from founder and CEO of Island Grill, Thalia Lyn, who was bestowed with an honorary doctorate. Lyn, reminiscing on the journey that...
In four days, Aneka ‘Slickianna’ Townsend would have been celebrating her 36th birthday. And the woman, who her friends describe as the life of the party, was looking forward to doing something spectacular. But her life was cut short before those...
Labelling the garbage disposal practices of some Jamaicans as “antisocial behaviour”, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is promising stronger enforcement of laws to address how waste is managed. Speaking at Wednesday’s handover ceremony of 50 garbage...
Two decades ago, a then 21-year-old mother of two was allegedly wilfully infected with HIV by someone she was dating. The Portland native told The Gleaner that she was actively pursued by the man, who she described as appearing to be quiet and...
The slow take-up of the pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) HIV drug in Jamaica has sparked concern for Dr Richard Amenyah, UNAIDS multi-country director in the island. PrEP, which is usually in the form of a pill, is designed to be taken by HIV-...
An ongoing gang feud between the Upsetta Mafia and Super Star gangs operating out of Hannah Town in west Kingston is believed to have sparked the killing of two men in the community on Tuesday morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Lance Thompson and 30-...
The junior council of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has given overwhelming support for the establishment of cadet units in all schools to combat student violence. Friday’s unanimous vote at the first sitting of the...
President of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood has indicated that he would not support the Government implementing back-to-back 14-day states of emergency (SOE) to circumvent opposition resistance. Like Deputy...
