Category: News

In recent times, there has been much discourse about the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica, and STEM education. The general interpretation seems to be of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) as a…

EXIT the toll road from Caymanas, St Catherine at Mammee Bay, St Ann, in half a minute turn right and plunge into a world of modern hospitality, the latest iteration of Sandals Resorts…

THE reality of children voicing their fears about being raped is alarming enough but, according to youth advocates, to have said children say unflinchingly that they would commit suicide if they fall victim…

Based on polls over the years and an acute understanding of our people’s religious, social, and cultural predispositions it was a given, born out of reality that both the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)…

So Government’s dog and pony show (a.k.a. Constitutional Reform) is now in full swing. Or, more fittingly, full see-saw. Because fundamental flaws in the process are so contrary that every rise in the…

Martin Luther King, in his famous 1963 speech ‘I have a dream’, noted ‘the fierce urgency of now’ while cautioning against what he called ‘the luxury of cooling off or to take the…

One in four women in Jamaica experiences sexual violence at least once in their lives. UN Women also reports that Jamaica has one of the highest rates of rape in the Caribbean. Many…

The majority of the contacts made to the SafeSpot child and teen helpline were on Mondays between the hours of 6:00 and 7:00 pm. This data was among the helpline’s statistics for 2022,…

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Senior librarian at the Manchester Parish Library Mitchel Barnes-Pitter has made a plea to children to utilise its resources to improve their literacy skills. Barnes-Pitter charge came on the margins…

MANDEVILLE, Manchester — Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) member Senator Donna Scott Mottley says the decision on whether to sever ties with the United Kingdom Privy Council as the final court of appeal remains…