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Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:34 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

When one mentions the word netball in Jamaica, right off the bat, and in this case, the ball, Molly Rhone's name comes to mind. Rhone has taken the sport of Netball locally to the global stage, first as a player and then in later years as an...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:22 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

On the stage or the airwaves, Fae Ellington has proven a master and done so with distinction. Her effervescent and bubbly personality has captured the hearts of many far and wide, however, don’t be fooled, the Clarendon-born Ellington is a...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:09 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

Back in the 1960s, being black in Britain came with many adversities, as racial tensions reached the highest it has ever been across the Western world. Being black and being on television was almost unthinkable in the UK in those days, but that is...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 12:59 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

Lisa Rene Hanna personifies beauty. The effervescent St Mary native may have put Jamaica on the map following her Miss World title back in 1993, but it is her public service in the form of Government Minister and politician that has helped her...

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2021 | 11:14 PM

This motion picture theatre was opened on January 17, 1951. Located in Old Harbour St. Catherine, it was owned by Mr. Stanley Vaz. A modernistic, open-air structure, the Reo had ample covering on the wings in case of rain, a seating capacity of 500...

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2021 | 10:51 PM

Marilyn Monroe was easily the most famous woman in the world when she decided to, like many a celebrity before her, visit the Island of Jamaica in 1957. The Gleaner’s pages captured the moment brilliantly. Have a read. Published January 4,...

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2021 | 10:39 PM

The University of the West Indies started as a College and had to wait for its status as a recognised University like everybody else. The Gleaner was there when the institution made its biggest step towards earning its status in 1949. Interestingly...

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2021 | 9:56 PM

Tales of the 1907 earthquake, the second such instance to destroy sections of Kingston, have been re-told many times over but as time has passed, those tales have had to be told by those who have only heard of the devastation. Thus is the nature of...

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2021 | 2:51 PMBANG Bizarre

The world's longest ice hockey game has come to an end after 252 hours. The game began on February 4 in Canada and hoped to raise money to fund cancer research. Organisers said the event ended with a final score of 2,649 goals for Team Cure and...

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2021 | 2:45 PMBANG Bizarre

A crocodile has had an operation to remove a shoe from its stomach. The reptile was brought to the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine earlier this month after swallowing the shoe that fell from a zipliner's foot in the US...

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2021 | 2:41 PMBANG Bizarre

A police investigation has been launched after a woman claimed she became pregnant by a gust of wind. Siti Zainah gave birth to a baby daughter in Indonesia last week, just an hour after she felt the wind surround her body but officers are keen to...

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2021 | 2:37 PMBANG Bizarre

Nestle are launching a vegan Kit Kat. The classic chocolate bar is undergoing the plant-based treatment and the new snack will be launched in the UK this year. It has yet to be confirmed what ingredients will be used to create the chocolate bar,...

Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2021 | 2:27 PMBANG Bizarre

The world's first flying car has been approved for take-off. The Terrafugia Transition 'roadable aircraft' has been granted an airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) that allows it to take to the skies ahead...

Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2021 | 10:35 PMStan Matwin for Project Syndicate

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has been attracting more attention, money, and talent than ever in its short history. But much of the sudden hype is the result of myths and misconceptions being peddled by...

Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2021 | 10:17 PMJonathan Woetzel and Mekala Krishnan for Project Syndicate

Jonathan Woetzel, a McKinsey senior partner, is Director of the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends. Mekala Krishnan is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute....

Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2021 | 9:07 PMNicholas Stern and Joseph E. Stiglitz for Project Syndicate

LONDON/NEW YORK – US President Joe Biden deserves congratulations for committing the United States to rejoin global efforts to combat climate change. But America and the world must respond to the challenge efficiently. Here, Biden’s...

Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2021 | 9:00 PMJayati Ghosh for Project Syndicate

NEW DELHI – The European Union has changed its economic policy for the better by agreeing on a €1.8 trillion ($2.2 trillion) post-pandemic stimulus plan to be financed directly through the EU budget. In particular, more than half of the...

Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2021 | 8:52 PMElizabeth Drew for Project Syndicate

WASHINGTON, DC – The US Senate’s failure to convict Donald Trump for instigating the January 6 riot in the Capitol, for which the House of Representatives had impeached him, leaves the question of whether the US Congress has any...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 9:18 PM

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist’s pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more. Take a look at this week past’s line up of cartoons as...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 6:05 PM

The story of extortion forcing the closing of a government project for a week is only shocking to those who don’t live here, but The Gleaner has rightly posited that the lack of surprise, and the wide-reaching nature of extortion is all the...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 5:25 PMJonielle Daley/Staff Reporter

It is no surprise that Education Minister Fayval Williams is not willing to close schools, even in the face of mounting COVID-19 cases. The education system, like the entertainment industry, has taken a proper beating over the last year and it is...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 5:17 PMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Businesses have immediately felt the pushback from Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s attempt to arrest an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases, as well as the Ministry of Health’s ability to cope, with an earlier curfew that, in a word, hurts...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 4:46 PM

The efficiency of areas of special operations has come in for more questions this week with the release of a report that seems to suggest, innocent residents of these areas are the ones who feel the brunt of any pain the police force attempts to...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 4:26 PMEdmond Campbell/ Senior Parliamentary Reporter

When Senior Parliamentary reporter Edmond Campbell released an Independent Commission of Investigation’s report alleging abuses by those who run the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, he unleashed the ire of Minister Without Portfolio in...

Published:Monday | February 15, 2021 | 3:43 PMLivern Barrett/Senior Staff Reporter

The Gleaner’s Livern Barrett has issued an early warning to Jamaicans that the crime problem it has faced for the last 20 years is getting towards an apex. There is no doubt, that even with less than two months gone in 2021, there must be...

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