NEW YORK – Last week, a social-media-fueled populist rebellion gripped capital markets. Retail investors purchased huge amounts of stock in struggling companies like GameStop, AMC, and BlackBerry (among others). They wanted to make a buck....
CAMBRIDGE – Poor countries are cheap. In 2019, a dollar could buy more than twice as much in Argentina, Morocco, South Africa, and Thailand as it could in the United States. It could buy more than three times as much in Vietnam, India, and...
LONDON – A tsunami-watcher’s job is thankless. If an earthquake hits Australia, or an underwater volcano erupts near Java, naval stations in Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, New Zealand, and even far-away Peru and Chile go on alert....
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...
The imagery of anybody being chopped to death is gruesome, but more worrisome is the fact that these acts of violence were meted out on some of the more vulnerable in our society. The atrocities were not lost on The Gleaner. Homeless Horror...
The sheer size of the task of vaccinating an entire country against COVID-19, like the size of the task of testing and mitigating against its spread, is monumental. Private businesses are now mulling over the idea of getting involved the vaccination...
With COVID-19 still leaving Jamaica’s entertainment industry stuck in the mud, many have turned to the various digital platforms to keep themselves afloat. Bob Marley is credited with taking the most marketable part of our culture to the...
This past week The Gleaner’s Editorials took a look at the death of Ken Allen, the growing desperation of a waning entertainment industry, and the Finance Minister’s optimism on growth, but its take on everybody’s responsibility...
Scenes from the 1972 film ‘The Harder They Come’ rushed back to memory. Images of a plane landing on a dusty airstrip, only to take off again seconds later with smugglers loading and unloading on the run made the rounds in the heads of...
Last week The Gleaner lost one of the greatest names in its 186-year history. Ken Allen, made his mark as a journalist and leader of journalists for well over 50 years and this is how the newspaper-turned-multi-media juggernaut chose to remember...
The 20 members of Jamaica’s first Assembly which convened in 1664 were all white and male. Jamaica was a British colony and in imperial Britain, women were completely excluded from the political process. The white, male monopoly of Jamaican...
Jonkonnu, a fusion of African masked dances and British folk plays, used to be prime street-side entertainment in Jamaica at Christmas. In colonial days, these bands would move from house to house, enjoying gifts of food and drinks or coins from...
AMIDST thunderous applause, after suspense-filled minutes, Beverly Holness was on Saturday night chosen “Miss Mona Heights 1962”, out of a field of eight contestants. Erica Cooke (“Miss Colgate Palmolive”) was chosen second-...
THE FIRST five visas to be issued under the amended United States Immigration Law, were presented by the U.S. Ambassador, Mr Wilson TM Beale, at a ceremony in the immigrant' visa section of ' the American Embassy yesterday morning (December...
BEFORE a hushed audience of 9,000 people last night in the floodlit National Stadium, Sir Clifford Clarence Campbell, G.C.M.G., was sworn in as Governor-General of the Dominion of Jamaica, the first native Jamaican to hold the highest office in the...
Western Bureau- While she was born in Montego Bay, St James, Tova Hamilton, the daughter of Hyacinth Minto-Hensley, and Trevor Hamilton, is a proud product of Trelawny, the parish where she spent her formative years in the communities of...
Western Bureau- To say young attorney-at-law Tova Hamilton emerged a giant killer in the September 3, 2020, general election, would be an understatement. In beating the People’s National Party's (PNP) incumbent Victor Wright, she...
Western Bureau- Having defied the odds in wrestling the Hanover Western constituency seat from the People’s National Party’s (PNP) three-term Member of Parliament Ian Hayles, first-timer, the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP)...
Western Bureau - As a daughter of Middlesex community in Hanover Western, Tamika Davis, who ousted the People’s National Party's (PNP) Ian Hayles to become the constituency's new Member of Parliament in the general election...
The Government of Jamaica made a massive statement in the fight to protect victims of domestic abuse with veteran parliamentarian Minister of Culture, Gender Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, making good on an important promise...
Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has urged countries to “put stronger focus on creating real gender equality” as they rebuild from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Minister...
Published:Thursday | December 24, 2020 | 12:17 PMJIS
Education, Youth and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, says Jamaicans need to ascribe greater importance to formal education. Speaking at a ceremony at the Brown’s Town Primary School in St Ann recently to hand over 126 tablets...
Published:Tuesday | December 22, 2020 | 2:42 PMJIS
Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon Portia Simpson Miller; and former Cabinet Minister, Dr Mavis Gilmour, are among 25 great Jamaican women, who will be honoured on International Women’s Day next year. Minister of Culture, Gender,...
