A near 12-hour search yesterday for two young girls swept away by a raging river during heavy rainfall in sections of St Mary on Thursday resulted in the recovery of the body of one of the cousins as raw emotions and unbearable grief consumed...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said that the Government will be moving to put an end to squatting and the illegal capture of public lands. While admitting that there are challenges in accessing affordable homes, Holness said that there are....

In its drive to make more housing solutions available, the Government is committing to complete all the housing projects which have been lagging on for years without being actualised. “We have made a commitment that all the projects that have been...

WESTERN BUREAU: Industrial arts students and teachers from some eight high schools across the island have been tasked by the education ministry to manufacture furniture to meet demand ahead of the reopening of schools. Leighton Johnson – principal...

The children of the Port Royal Primary and Infant School were fêted on Friday by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) as the state entity formally adopted the Kingston-based educational institution ahead of the new academic year. The day’s events we...

Maryland’s highest court on Friday ordered that Jamaica-born sniper Lee Boyd Malvo be resentenced because of a 2012 US Supreme Court decision barring mandatory life sentences for juveniles. The now-37-year-old Malvo was convicted, along with John....

WESTERN BUREAU: Local Government and Rural Development Minister Desmond McKenzie, who last year chided the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation (WMC) for its tardiness in commencing construction on the new Negril food and vegetable market, was...

WESTERN BUREAU: Proponents of child-based special needs assessment are backing a call by Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison for more assessment centres to be established across Jamaica. While addressing the JTA’s 58t...

BUFF BAY, Portland: Forty-four retired educators, along with 48 students, were recognised and awarded trophies and cash during a special ceremony at Lunch Park in Buff Bay, West Portland on Wednesday. The event was conceptualised by West Portland.....

The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) has stared down a rebellion and rejected as overblown the noisy resistance to draft legislation governing the licensing of teachers. Dr Winsome Gordon, who broke her silence in a...

When Kimone Rowe received a call about her five-year-old, Tray Graham, in July, the last thing she had expected to hear was that her beloved son had been murdered. The boy, who is believed to have been beaten to death, allegedly by his father,...

When an aunt of 16-year-old Narando Boothe heard gunshots ring out around 10:30 p.m. on Water Lane, Kingston, on Wednesday, she never thought the boy could have been the target of the explosions. But that reality has sunk in as gloom hovers over...

There are now tears of joy for Nickeisha Singh Smith, whose pleas for a transfer of her 12-year-old son to nearby Vere Technical High have finally been answered. The 32-year-old mother’s dilemma, published in Monday’s Gleaner, bared the...

The family of Garvin Yapp, the Jamaican farmworker who was fatally injured while operating tobacco-harvesting equipment in Ontario, Canada, may be entitled to compensation. Yapp was employed under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Programme (.....

Regional staff of the Ministry of Education have committed to bolster support for Clarendon’s teachers and administrators with a suite of services geared at training and other assistance. Chief among those is the reinforcement of specialised...

Despite battling termite infestation and space challenges, some Clarendon schools are pushing through to have a smooth start to the 2022-2023 academic year, with many telling The Gleaner that they are almost there with preparation. O’Neil Lewin,.....

With the Sixth Form Pathways Programme becoming mandatory in a matter of days for thousands of former 11th-graders, schools are scrambling to retrofit spaces to accommodate larger populations. That is already running administrations millions of...

While a migration crisis has been causing anxiety over attrition numbers ahead of the new school year, schools like Marcus Garvey Technical have been struggling to find educators, especially in the industrial arts, in recent years. Kirk Smith, head....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lamenting the state of the Washington Boulevard corridor, noting that the area is in need of attention, not only to address traffic concerns, but to improve the look of the entrance to the metropolis. “ ... As you....

For 62-year-old Rachael Smith, living along the gully bank in the Majesty Gardens neighbourhood of St Andrew was particularly challenging. Smith, who grew up in the gritty community, lamented that her worst memories occurred during the hurricane...