A man was working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic and was using the stairs to get to his home office space when he slipped and suffered a spinal injury. The firm's insurance company had refused to pay out to the man - but the court...
WASHINGTON, DC: The Afghan economy is in free fall. Public-sector employees – teachers, healthcare workers, bureaucrats, police – are not being paid, the currency has lost a fifth of its value, and shortages of food, medicines, and...
ADELAIDE: These are tough times for the humanities. Too many liberal arts subjects have come to be seen as fusty and irrelevant. Who can afford to invest in a four-year education focusing on the wisdom of the Mayan civilisation or the nuances of...
LONDON: Despite multiple technological breakthroughs in the fight to control COVID-19, twice as many people died from it in 2021 compared to 2020. The Omicron variant is a stark reminder that effective vaccines are merely the first step towards...
CAMBRIDGE: Debates about race have frequently dominated news coverage in (and about) the United States, often following acts of racial violence or legal proceedings against their perpetrators. But while Americans’ attention to issues of race...
LONDON/GENEVA: It beggars belief, but it’s true: In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, the member states of the World Health Organization are still pondering whether, and by how much, they should increase their regular financial contributions...
The chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF) is calling for increased housing benefits for healthcare workers. He believes that even if the Government cannot meet the salaries proposed by the nurses, they would appreciate being able to own their...
IGL Blue Limited Chairman Bevon Francis says there is enough oxygen on the island if there was supposed to be a fourth wave of the COVID-19. He also said that there was an issue in the hospitals as it pertains to the management of the gas. IGL says...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says poor students should be positioned to benefit from the best education. This will help them to break the cycle of poverty. The PM gave a commitment to build schools that will operate at the highest standards for...
Persons have been having significant issues with the use of their images as well as their names online. Scammers have resorted to using other peoples identities to trick and steal. from Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Andrea Martin-Swaby...
A father living in West Kingston says he had to lay on his daughter as the different gangs traded bullets in the night. Another resident said that there are no killings, the men are just showing their firepower. Why gunmen parade firepower in war...
Urgent need for a review of the education system While the public awaits a report on the progress of the reopening of schools, there needs to be another look on the Sixth Form Pathways Programme (SFPP). It is still unclear to some teachers and...
Screams, blood, tears. 6-y-o killed in freak shooting as woman loses third grandchild Jamaica Gleaner 8 Dec 2021 Ainsworth.morris@gleanerjm.com LITTLE T-MORA McCallum would have celebrated her seventh birthday on December 27, offering the family...
Gungo peas, sorrel sales yet to pick up as Christmas nears 7 Dec 2021/Asha Wilks VENDORS OF gungo peas and sorrel in downtown Kingston’s Coronation Market are hoping for a turnaround in flagging sales for the Christmas season. With...
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...
Mrs Coretta King, wife of the late American civil rights leader, the Rev Dr Martin Luther King, enjoyed great company while in Jamaica. She also visited several places meeting and greeting different groups. For feedback: contact the...
Miss World, Carol Joan Crawford, was showered with gifts at her reception held at Vale Royal. Sir Alexander Bustamante was extremely happy to see the beauty queen and gave her a very warm greeting. Published Saturday, December 7, 1963 VALE ROYAL...
More than 100 persons boarded the Stella Polaris to get away from the cold in England. Some of the passengers are on holiday, but some have come to find a better life. Published Wednesday, December 8, 1948 Britons Come To Make Jamaica Their Home...
The wife of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr says she will need a lot of support and encouragement as it is harder to carry on her husband's legacy as a woman. Wednesday December 11, 1968 King meets Sir Alex CORETTA KING, the widow of the late civil...
The crowd at the National Heroes Park exercised a lot of patience waiting for the superstar. Bob Marley, along with some of Jamaica's greats, were set to perform for fans in a free concert called 'Smile Jamaica'. Bob was reluctant to...
Scientists have found that injecting rodents with a grape seed extract increased their remaining time alive by over 60 per cent. The overall lifespan for the creatures was boosted by nine per cent - the equivalent of more than a decade in the...
Dr Karan Rangarjan, an NHS surgical doctor and lecturer at Sunderland University, explained that facial fuzz can be good as it protects against bacteria. In a video posted on his TikTok account, Dr Rangarjan said: "A study comparing hospital...
A new study has found that Viagra, the erectile dysfunction drug was associated with a 69 per cent reduced risk of Alzheimer's when factors such as race, age, and sex are taken into account. Men taking Viagra had a substantially lower risk of...
Researchers in Canada surveyed more than 100 owners of various dog breeds about the words and phrases they can understand. On average, owners reported that their dogs were capable of responding to 89 terms, with one clever canine able to comprehend...
A tribunal in Austria heard that a doctor had marked the wrong leg of his 82-year-old patient, which the defendant claimed was a result of a systematic problem rather than human error. The defendant said that "errors in surgical planning had...
