Researchers studied how elderly adults coped with activities such as climbing stairs and lifting shopping, and found that females were more likely to have trouble completing basic physical and mental tasks. It was noted that many women in the study...
‘VACCINATED NOT WELCOME’ Man operates school from home to help students catch up on lessons Jamaica Gleaner 13 Nov 2021 Christopher Serju/Senior Gleaner Writer christopher.serju@gleanerjm.com IT SEEMED that whoever wrote the sign...
GENEVA (ILO News): To ensure a human-centred recovery from the pandemic and empower people to navigate the challenges of a rapidly changing world of work, ILO Director General Guy Ryder has called on countries to back the Global Accelerator for...
The celebration of Child's Month has been a long tradition in a country now struggling with handling violence against the vulnerable young. Looking back at how long we have been celebrating our children is a good way to recognise how much we...
In April of 1981, Bob Marley was conferred with the Order of Merit, by May of 1981, he was dead. The fact that he was being conferred with the honour at just 36 years old, says it all. Jamaica had lost the greatest of its musical ambassadors. Here...
With the achievements of Jamaican athletes like Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in recent times, and Veronica Campbell-Brown before that, there may be the tendency to forget some of the people we call heroes. That 'forgetfulness'...
Jamaica has gone through more changes than you would think on its way to achieving a sort of mature democracy. One of the ways of doing that is to ensure free and fair elections. Fairness is the purview of the Political Ombudsman, a position...
It is easy to overlook those on whose backs we have stood to produce excellence and the Musgrave Medal awards are a wonderful way to ensure that doesn't happen. The work of people like George Goode may not have been remembered otherwise, so it...
