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Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 5:35 PMThe Gleaner Archives

Jamaica has been hit with epidemics many times before. There has been Dengue, Chikungunya, Zika, and much further back, the dangerous Cholera. All the way back in 1954, the country was gripped by fear when a Poliomyelitis outbreak threatened its...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 1:08 AMBANG Bizarre

A website is offering $2,000 for five nights of sleeping. Sleep Standards - a site dedicated to dispensing advice about sleep and the impact it has on people's health - is offering the successful candidate the chance to get paid for snoozing in...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 12:52 AMBANG Bizarre

Boys who play video games are less likely to be depressed, according to new research. A study conducted by academics at University College London found that males who played video games on a regular basis between the ages of 11 and 24 have fewer...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 12:45 AMBANG Bizarre

A fugitive has handed himself in as he wants some "peace and quiet" in prison. The wanted man had grown exasperated with the people he was living with during the coronavirus lockdown and presented himself voluntarily to Sussex police...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 12:41 AMBANG Bizarre

An airport in Philadelphia has employed a food delivery robot to help feed passengers. Philadelphia International Airport has unveiled Gita, a robot with a large capacity cargo bin to deliver meals in a contact-free manner via OrderatPHL.com. The...

Published:Thursday | February 25, 2021 | 12:35 AMBANG Bizarrre

A fisherman found a baby shark with a 'human face'. Abdullah Nuren caught the young shark on a fishing trip in Indonesia and was left perplexed by its human-like facial features. The shark was one of the three unborn creatures found in the...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 11:43 PMTodd G. Buchholz for Project Syndicate

SAN DIEGO – “God does not play dice with the universe,” Einstein once assured us. True. Instead, a gaggle of geeky gamers with goggles, toggles, and Robinhood-like finance apps are determining our future. Long before GameStop made...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 11:34 PMAxel A. Weber for Project Syndicate

ZURICH – Current forecasts by many banks, central banks, and other institutions suggest that inflation will not be a problem in the foreseeable future. The International Monetary Fund, for example, expects global inflation to remain subdued...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 11:22 PMMariana Mazzucato for Project Syndicate

LONDON – In last year’s Reith Lectures – the BBC’s annual radio series – former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney observes that, since the 2008 financial crisis, norms and institutions have increasingly been defined...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 11:10 PMMohamed A. El-Erian for Project Syndicate

LAGUNA BEACH – Recognising that “no one is safe until everyone is safe,” the G7 recently announced additional steps to facilitate globally more “affordable and equitable access to vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 10:43 PMCarlo Ratti and Richard Florida for Project Syndicate

PARIS – Rue de Rivoli, a boulevard running through the heart of Paris, has been developed in fits and starts. Napoleon Bonaparte initiated construction in 1802, after years of planning and debate, but work stalled following the emperor’...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 9:18 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 9:01 AM

This week The Gleaner again looked at the issue of abuses in the nation’s prisons. But this time around, the organisation, took a deep dive into Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Matthew Samuda’s response...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 8:53 AMJonielle Daley/Staff Reporter

A $422-million proposed spend on a public relations campaign to get Jamaicans to take the COVID-19 vaccine has not gone down well with the population, many calling it exorbitant. The ruling Jamaica Labour Party seems to have listened to those...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 8:34 AMLennox Aldred/Gleaner Writer

Ricky Skerritt famously ousted Dave Cameron in his run to the presidency of Cricket West Indies, but with just one term under his belt, maybe his administration is coming apart at the seams with challenges springing up with the claim he has not...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 8:27 AMJanet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer

The elections of the Accompong Maroons rarely grab national interest, with the small community usually going about its business with the rest of the country none the wiser. However, 2021 has seen the rise of Chief Richard Currie, who at just 40...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 8:20 AMNadine Wilson-Harris and Jonielle Daley/Gleaner Writers

Jamaica looks set to inoculate the entire population against the coronavirus, despite initial estimates, it only intended to do so for about 16% of the population this year. That is good news despite the sharp spike in positive cases the country...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 8:06 AM

It is interesting that the debacle with JAMCOVID and its breach would spill on to the National Identification System. The question is, if the government could not get JAMCOVID right, can they be trusted with NIDS? DATA BREACH BLOWBACK JAMCOVID...

Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2021 | 2:06 AMHopeton Bucknor/Gleaner Writer

The debacle at Munro College where the part administrators played in a COVID-19 breakout brought into stark reality, the part leaders at organisations must play in order to help curtail the spread of COVID-19. MUNRO ANGER Administrators blamed for...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:53 AMArnold Bertram/Contributor

The General Elections of 1967 marked a major milestone in Jamaica’s political leadership. The 83-year-old Alexander Bustamante retired on the eve of the elections, which was the last in which Norman Manley led the People’s National...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:34 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

When one mentions the word netball in Jamaica, right off the bat, and in this case, the ball, Molly Rhone's name comes to mind. Rhone has taken the sport of Netball locally to the global stage, first as a player and then in later years as an...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:22 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

On the stage or the airwaves, Fae Ellington has proven a master and done so with distinction. Her effervescent and bubbly personality has captured the hearts of many far and wide, however, don’t be fooled, the Clarendon-born Ellington is a...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 1:09 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

Back in the 1960s, being black in Britain came with many adversities, as racial tensions reached the highest it has ever been across the Western world. Being black and being on television was almost unthinkable in the UK in those days, but that is...

Published:Monday | February 22, 2021 | 12:59 AMLennox Aldred/ Gleaner Writer

Lisa Rene Hanna personifies beauty. The effervescent St Mary native may have put Jamaica on the map following her Miss World title back in 1993, but it is her public service in the form of Government Minister and politician that has helped her...

Published:Thursday | February 18, 2021 | 11:14 PM

This motion picture theatre was opened on January 17, 1951. Located in Old Harbour St. Catherine, it was owned by Mr. Stanley Vaz. A modernistic, open-air structure, the Reo had ample covering on the wings in case of rain, a seating capacity of 500...

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