A literary arts and creative writing festival is scheduled for Saturday April 27 2024 in Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica. The idea is ‘to provide an opportunity for aspiring and accomplished writers, both…
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Full election mode
CHAIRMAN Robert Montague emerged from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Central Executive Committee meeting on Sunday saying that the 80-year-old political organisation is now in “full election mode” and that his team has…
Health system under threat, says Dawes
OPPOSITION shadow minister of health and wellness Dr Alfred Dawes has called on the authorities to move with alacrity to prevent a full-scale disruption to the island’s health-care system in the wake of…
UWI Alumna Becomes First Black Woman Named Master of the American College of Rheumatology
Dr Gail S Kerr, a graduate of the University of the West Indies (UWI), has been made a Master of the American College of Rheumatology. She is the first Black woman to receive…
The Perfect Husband And Wife….4 Lies We Believe
Max and Jane sat at the dinner table at their yearly couple’s retreat. Max is a talker and Jane is not. Max loves to talk but he does not speak very well. Jane…
Deer danger
A social media post advertising the sale of a white-tailed fawn has triggered calls from concerned farmers and environmental experts for Government intervention in controlling the island’s deer population. According to environmentalist Damion…
Ready, set…
THE Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seems set to finalise its plans, and possibly a date, for the looming local government elections when its Central Executive Committee meets today. Up to late Saturday, senior…
Law students, teacher want Barnetts punished
BROWN’S TOWN, St Ann — Like a number of other Jamaicans, two sixth form law students and one of their teachers, who on Friday gathered for a legal summit to explore the theme…
Young mom tops Bedward Gardens Beauty Pageant
WINNING the Miss Bedward Gardens Beauty Pageant 2023 was just the confidence booster that mother of three, Camila Millington, desired. It is alleged that a number of people were objecting to her being…
Byron Blake | COP28 and its implications for small island states
In my article ‘Mirror, mirror on Dubai …’ published in The Sunday Gleaner of December 31, 2023, I lamented the colossal failure of COP28 to even create a mirage of addressing the Greenhouse…