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Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:13:39 -0500
‘THIS, TOO, WILL PASS’
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Smarting from criticism of his handling of the country’s affairs, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has accused the parliamentary Opposition of seeking to exploit Jamaica’s swirling crises for “political one-upmanship”. ...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:12:39 -0500
Displaced Ukraine students keep dreams alive
Facing the daunting task of getting her studies back on track after fleeing Ukraine in February in the wake of the Russian invasion, 21-year-old Aliya Johnson is pulling out all the stops to achieve her career goal: that of becoming a doctor of...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:13:22 -0500
Sex offender who assaulted 10-y-o loses bid to cut sentence
Sixty-six-year-old Kenneth Morris, who was convicted in 2017 for molesting a 10-year-old girl and sentenced to 14 years in prison, has lost his bid to have at least five years shaved off his sentence. The Court of Appeal, however, while dismissing....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:12:53 -0500
Tampon shortage frustrates local women
A tampon shortage believed to have been triggered by global supply chain issues compounded by rising fuel costs, problems sourcing raw materials, and labour shortages has been causing distress for many Jamaican women trying to find their preferred.....

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:11:43 -0500
Transcript trauma
Like scores of university students in Jamaica, Leahcim Powell was excited about the idea of jetting off to the United States for the very first time on the work-and-travel programme. Powell said he spent around J$300,000 to prepare documents and......

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:12:01 -0500
Webber challenges Toyota to supply more electric vehicles to boost UWI fleet
University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Principal Professor Dale Webber has issued a charge to Toyota Jamaica to provide more hybrid or electric vehicles to the Jamaican market. Webber was speaking yesterday at a handover ceremony for a Toyota......

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:13:13 -0500
BOJ hikes rates again to 5.5%
The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) raised the benchmark interest rate offered to deposit-taking institutions on overnight placements with the central bank by 50 basis points to 5.50 per cent, effective June 30, notwithstanding continuing pressure from the......

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:13:48 -0500
DEATH DIVIDE
Senior defence lawyers have expressed mixed views about prosecutors’ plans to seek the death penalty for the 23-year-old man accused of the throat-slashing murder of a mother and four children in Cocoa Piece, Clarendon, last week. Rushane Barnett,...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:13:25 -0500
Backlash from businesses as Gov’t to end SOE
The business community in St Catherine has criticised the Government’s decision not to seek an extension of the state of emergency (SOE), challenging that the 14-day respite is not enough to repel criminals wreaking havoc in the Old Capital....

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:13:01 -0500
Grants Pen groans as highway drives away business
When entrepreneur David Bowen saw the roll-out plan for the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project, the Grants Pen resident said he predicted the St Thomas fishing village would soon lose its economic value. But some residents jeered him and.....

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:10:43 -0500
High achiever turns Gleaner vendor to help finance medical school dream
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago, 18-year-old Justeena Rhone grasped the opportunity to make money selling newspapers, shooting for her dream of saving towards becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon. Every...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:11:48 -0500
Accused gangster was a prayer boy, says shopkeeper
A retired St Catherine shopkeeper and neighbour of an alleged Clansman-One Don gangster disclosed Wednesday that the accused once attended prayer meetings at her home, causing her to disbelieve the State’s claims he was involved in organised crime...

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:13:37 -0500
Peace Corps volunteers return September
United States (US) Ambassador to Jamaica, Nick Perry, says volunteers from the US Peace Corps will return to Jamaica in September. The volunteers, who have been working with Jamaicans since 1962, were absent in the last two years owing to the COVID....

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:10:02 -0500
TOLL HIKE ON
Concessionaires of Highway 2000 have said that they will not defer this year’s rate increases after losing millions of dollars in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Toll Authority of Jamaica CEO Lerone Laing made the disclosure on......

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:09:37 -0500
PLATINUM PERFORMANCE
The chief public servant Jamaicans depend on to watch over the public purse, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, has won the 2021 RG Platinum Award. Monroe Ellis earned the top RJRGLEANER Honour Award for her exemplary leadership in the public...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:09:54 -0500
Mom tells court son not capable of being a gangster
The mother of one of the alleged Clansman-One Don gangsters yesterday testified that she was devastated by the news of his arrest and that he is “not capable of being in a gang”. The St Catherine woman described her son, Brian ‘Rooster’ Morr...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:09:06 -0500
‘She was everything to me’
Denham Town resident Veron Nelson lost his 17-year-old sister Devonise Nelson to a vicious gun attack on Sunday, breaking a special bond between them, having shared both parents, unlike the rest of their siblings. Devonise, a student and mother......

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:09:14 -0500
‘Kingston is not Jamaica’
WESTERN BUREAU: DR ANTHONY Taylor, chairman of the St James Festival Queen Committee, believes that avenues should be opened for a wider pool of venues to host the annual Miss Jamaica Festival Queen finals outside of Kingston to provide a greater......

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:09:01 -0500
Clothing tendered into evidence in rape-murder of 9-y-o
WESTERN BUREAU: Several pieces of clothing, including the underwear belonging to a nine-year-old schoolgirl who was raped and killed in 2018, were tendered into evidence on Monday in a case against a 17-year-old boy accused of rape, buggery and...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:07:21 -0500
RJRGLEANER Honour Awards 2021 recipients



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