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Communications and entertainment provider Flow has renewed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with UNICEF which provides the youth with free mobile access to a mental health helpline. The signing took place at Flow’s corporate offices on Carlton...
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Caribbean needs a more informed approach to tackle crime and violence in order to improve regional security. “It is a reality that our region, Latin America and the Caribbean, is a high-violence region. It is...
Carreras Limited has committed $30 million in support to Project STAR’s work in communities across Jamaica. Managing director, Franklin Murillo, said his organisation has a rich legacy of nation-building and that over the past 60 years it has been...
Chief of Party for the United States Department of Agriculture Food for Progress Jamaica Spices project, Dr Ronald Blake, used the recent launch at the AC Hotel by Marriott to call out financial institutions for their failure to offer competitive...
NUMEROUS CHURCH leaders from various denominations across the island are happy with comments made by Marlene Malahoo Forte, minister of legal and constitutional affairs, which she stated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The church...
Disbarred attorney-at-law Donovan Foote has been granted leave by the Supreme Court to apply for judicial review to quash the decision of former Senior Parish Court Judge Icolyn Reid (now a Puisne Judge) issuing a bench warrant against him. Foote...
WHEN OFFICERS at the Richmond Farm Adult Correctional Centre in St Mary reached out to JP Farms in the parish, requesting that they provide any kind of organic products left over from their fresh fruit and chip-making operations, a management team...
BUFF BAY, WEST PORTLAND A family of 12 who had been left homeless after fire ravaged their home is to receive assistance to reconstruct their dwelling, amid appeals for even more help for basic supplies to get them sufficiently restored.The family...
MANDEVILLE, MANCHESTER THE PUBLIC’S failure to properly containerise its garbage, continues to pose a challenge, despite improved collection efforts by the Southern Parks and Markets (SPM) waste management Limited, administrators say. The SPM is...
CARICOM heads of Government welcomed the meeting between heads of state and Government of the Caribbean and the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, in The Bahamas today. Harris co-hosted the US-Caribbean leaders meeting with...
MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump said today that he was indicted for mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, a remarkable development that makes him the first former president in United States history to face criminal charges by the...
Forty-year-old Mark Brown, who stabbed a man to death six years ago, was today found guilty of murder. He was remanded and is to be sentenced on July 28. The crown led evidence that in 2017, Brown and Clive Spencer, a 34-year-old labourer of...
Heavy rainfall has led to substantial damage to farms and road networks in South St Elizabeth and South Manchester, says the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining. The ministry says it has swiftly taken action by dispatching assessment...
The Jamaica Rifle Association (JRA) has suspended all activities at its Mountain View Avenue range in St Andrew following the revocation of the dealer's licence of its president, Major John Nelson. “Please note that a cease-fire is now in...
The police are now at the scene of a murder and shooting at a house on Boone Hall Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew. Reports are that residents heard loud explosions about 3:30 pm and summoned the police. The Gleaner understands that the body of a male...
The parishes of Hanover, St Thomas and Manchester will select their parish queens this weekend to participate in the Miss Jamaica Festival Queen Competition 2023. Festival Queen parish coronations are scheduled to take place at the Jockey Factory...
