KYIV:When COVID-19 hit Ukraine, infectious diseases specialist Stepan Karabinyosh was at the centre of the crisis. As he worked day after day in an intensive care unit, Karabinyosh found that his medical training had prepared him for the practical...
NEW YORK: At last month’s COP26 climate summit, hundreds of financial institutions declared that they would put trillions of dollars to work to finance solutions to climate change. Yet a major barrier stands in the way: The world’s...
WASHINGTON, DC: There is an adage that you cannot have back-to-back financial crises. The implication is that a financial crisis causes people to be more careful – so any bank, investment firm, or investor who survives one crisis will not be...
Mr Tavares-Finson should not act like an ordinary member of the Senate The president of the Senate, Tom Tavares-Finson, is supposed to be fair and calculated in his utterances. This was quite the opposite of what took place as the matter of the...
More than 150 at-risk youth will be benefiting from a programme focusing skills training, employment programmes, and psychosocial interventions. It is an initiative between the Government and FHI 360, a non-profit human development organisation...
Relatives and friends of Briana Kerr and 40-year-old Derrick ‘Screechy’ Coley are calling for the authorities to use JamaicaEye to see what happened on Friday morning. There are conflicting stories coming from the police and...
Students who were struggling to read and getting lost in the online school environment have started to improve due to help from two sisters in Bull Bay, St Andrew. The sisters have created a space in their home to accommodate students daily. They...
There are investigations into more than 100 cases at the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) where persons deemed unfit were approved for firearms. Shane Dalling, chief executive officer of the FLA, says they have started to revoke some of the...
Fitz Jackson in Parliament last Tuesday raised the point that talks of Jamaica becoming a republic started as early as the 1990s. There has been a lot of chatter about removing the Queen as head of state since our Caribbean neighbour Barbados...
The location and cost of the lands on which the Ruthven apartments were built should be considered when talking about the price of the units. The 86 Ruthven Towers units sit on five acres of prime land in New Kingston, costing $378.5 million....
'HIV has not gone anywhere' More players need to join fight against epidemic, says official Jamaica Gleaner 30 Nov 2021 Christopher Thomas/ Gleaner Writer christopher.thomas@gleanerjm.com ROBB-ALLEN DR ALISHA Robb-Allen, acting senior...
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...
Carole Joan Crawford was crowned Miss World in 1963. The 20-year-old was the first Jamaican to win the competition and also the first from the Caribbean. Standing at five feet, three inches tall, she is the shortest to have ever won the competition.
Donna Marie Lewis will be heading to Canada next year, claiming her prize of a trip to Expo 17. The student won the competition held at the annual Fair to become Miss Mona Heights. Published Monday December 5, 1966 Commercial student is “Miss...
The Vere football team was a force to be reckoned with in their match against Kingston College. The boys fought for every ball and pressured the line of defence on the opposing team. Published Sunday December 6, 1970 Vere retain Olivier Shield -...
A third force in Jamaican politics has been launched. the new party is a combination of splinter groups. The first meeting dealt with the party's constitution and the selection of officers Published Monday, December 5, 1966 Jamaica United Party...
The first Canadian prime minister to visit Jamaica, Lester B. Pearson, was happy to experience the tropical weather having landed on the island in his private jet. Pearson's visit was to have talks with the acting prime minister on issues of...
Experts say that people with big egos find it hard to remember faces and objects because of the way they focus on themselves. The study saw more than 1,000 participants tested for levels of the 'grandiose narcissism' personality trait and...
Julie Anne Genter, who serves as a member of parliament in New Zealand, got on her bike in the early hours to travel to the hospital in the capital city, Wellington. Genter was already in labour when she set off, and ended up giving birth at 3 a.m...
WASHINGTON, DC: The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and the ongoing negotiations over US President Joe Biden’s social infrastructure bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, share an important feature. At the heart of...
BRASÍLIA: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American governments took the unprecedented step of including informal workers in emergency relief legislation. Informal workers comprise a significant share of Latin American countries’...
HONG KONG: ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social-media platform TikTok, has a not-so-secret weapon. Its powerful algorithms are able to predict users’ preferences with precision and recommend content they actually want to see,...
Port-of-Spain: Rebuilding labour markets to address challenges, such as inequalities, inadequate social protection coverage, skills gaps and climate vulnerabilities, that have worsened during the pandemic was the main focus of the latest Caribbean...
GENEVA: It is incredible to think that when the last Paris Peace Forum was held, in November 2020, no COVID-19 vaccine had yet been approved. A year later, more than seven billion doses have been administered, preventing countless deaths and...
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...
