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EFFORTS to find 15-year-old Sanique Leachman, who is suspected to have died after a major landslide in Shooter's Hill, Bull Bay, St Andrew, flattened the home she shared with her father, Romeo Leachman, continued up to press time last night.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
The police are optimistic that the zone of special operations (ZOSO) declared in August Town, St Andrew, yesterday will solve the problem of gunmen plaguing the community once and for all. Senior Superintendent of Police Steve McGregor, who heads...
Media giant Oliver Clarke died late Saturday evening at his St Andrew home after a battle with cancer.
Clarke, a former chairman of the RJRGLEANER Group has held several prominent positions including president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica.
Here are 10 things about the media mogul, who, in 1998 received the Order of Jamaica, the fourth highest national honour:
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In 2004, the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies recognised him as a Caribbean Luminary.
received honorary doctorates from the University of the West Indies, the University of Technology, Jamaica and the Northern Caribbean University.
For 23 years, Terri Ann Leslie has been cooling tempers, extinguishing blazes, and extricating people from crashed vehicles in the western parish of St James. The assistant superintendent is one of two females in the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) who...
(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen-year-old Saneeka Leechman, a student of The Queen’s School in Kingston, was making plans to surprise her father, 42-year-old Romeo Leechman, on his upcoming birthday, but this will never come to pass as a land slippage caused by heavy rains destroyed their frail house yesterday in Shooters Hill St Andrew, crushing and killing her father.
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Last week, the National Youth Parliament Surrey County successfully donated over 1,350 books to schools across Portland and St Thomas. Organised by county coordinator, David Salmon, and his deputy, Nahjae Nunes, this project represented a...
While new concerns looming about the nation’s capacity to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with the gradual reopening of the island’s borders, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes his administration is in a state of readiness to give of its best.
In an interview with The Gleaner on Tuesday, Greene said that although the opening of Jamaica’s ports to visitors and returning nationals is outside his administration’s control, the WRHA is doing all it can to put itself in a position to respond to whatever situation may arise.
The WRHA boss stated that among the measures being utilised to curtail the spread of the coronavirus is the geofencing technology, which is being used to monitor persons entering Jamaica’s borders to ensure that they adhere to quarantine guidelines.
We also have a team of persons who give literature to everyone coming in through the region’s ports, whether through Montego Bay or Falmouth, to tell them how to protect themselves,” explained Greene.
While noting the possibility of travellers entering the island with the virus, Greene said the health authorities must continue to be thorough in the fight against COVID-19.
By The Associated Press BERLIN — Several people attacked Germany's national disease control center with incendiary devices early Sunday, Berlin police reported. A security guard noticed the attack on the Robert Koch Institute in the German capital and was able to quickly extinguished the flames. Nobody was injured, but one window was destroyed. Criminal police has taken over the investigation on suspicion that the attack may have been politically motivated. Among other things, the institute keeps track of Germany's coronavirus outbreak. It publishes daily new infection figures and also advises the government and the public on how to keep the […]
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Jamaica has recorded 10 new COVID cases increasing the total to 544.
Five of the new patients arrived on Royal Caribbean's Adventure of the Seas, which docked in Falmouth, Trelawny on Tuesday.
Western Bureau: Hanover, which was the last parish to record a case of the coronavirus in Jamaica, took a direct hit yesterday as the family court in the parish had to be closed because of positive COVID-19 cases at the facility. A press release...
Veteran educator and Franciscan Sister Angella Harris was yesterday hailed as a woman steeped in grace and humility as family, friends, and colleagues and several persons whose lives she touched joined in a memorial service to salute her.
The former principal of Immaculate Conception High in St Andrew and Mount Alvernia High in Montego Bay, St James, was remembered as a sports-loving enthusiast who exemplified simplicity.
Known as a strict disciplinarian who had compassion for those she led, Harris spent more than 25 years in the education system.
A graduate of St Hugh’s High, The University of the West Indies, Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College, and Central Connecticut State University, Harris taught at Hillel Academy for a year before her first stint at Immaculate Conception High as a teacher for five years.
She then moved to Mount Alvernia High, where she taught for 16 years, including her last 10 years as principal, before returning to Immaculate in September 2005 as principal.
LEADER of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips said yesterday that the People's National Party (PNP) of which he is president, is not satisfied with the Government's response to the issue involving the bid to lease land close to the Holywell Park in St Andrew to Cabinet minister Daryl Vaz.
Dr Phillips, who was addressing councillors and caretakers who are aspiring to fill the 228 local government divisions up for grabs in an election expected by the end of November, said that he could only describe as contempt for the people and their concerns the prime minister's response to the issue.
“With the greatest of respect to the prime minister, and to everyone else, the change in portfolio responsibilities cannot be perceived as a sanction.
During last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness shifted some portfolio responsibilities from Vaz, who was the minister without portfolio with responsibility for land and the environment, to newly promoted Member of Parliament for St Catherine North Eastern Leslie Campbell, after a bid by Vaz to lease land in the Blue Mountain area did not materialise.
In a news release on the development, the Office of the Prime Minister said that Campbell would assume responsibility for land, environment and climate change within the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, while Vaz would be tasked with ensuring that water and housing projects are accelerated, and that economic projects, like the Special Economic Zones (SEZs), become a reality in short order.
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She passed away at 11 o’clock yesterday morning after a long fight with cancer.
Described as a great leader, mentor and supporter of student athletes, Harris made her last public appearance at a Shirley Caesar concert in St Andrew in January.
A year earlier when she was diagnosed with stage-four cancer, she requested a gospel concert at her beloved institution before she retires.
Born in Spaldings, Clarendon, Harris dedicated 25 years of service to education in Jamaica.
She is a graduate of the St Hugh’s High School, The University of the West Indies, the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College and the Central Connecticut State University.
Lynda Edwards and George Graham, two Jamaica-born writers a generation apart, interview interesting Jamaicans living abroad. George was born in 1934 in Black River. Lynda was born in 1967 in Mandeville. Both live in Florida. This week, they...
The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising commuters that Kings House Avenue in St Andrew will be closed to through traffic this weekend.
The closure, which will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 23 until 5:00 p.m. Sunday, March 24, is to facilitate the installation of a drainage pipe across the width of the roadway.
Manager of Communication and Customer Services at the NWA, Stephen Shaw says that the drainage improvement works, that are being undertaken, will require excavation of the road surface.
He says that the roadway will be closed a lane at a time to allow for persons to have access to their properties.
During the period of closure, persons who have to use the roadway are being advised to exercise extreme caution and to obey the instructions of posted warning signs.
Hello mi neighbour! You are hurrying home with a loaf of bread and a tin of corned beef to feed your hungry children. For sure, you are unsure of their next meal. The pandemic relieved you of your job. Along the way you meet a family of three:...
Thirty-four party goers who were charged for breaching the Disaster Risk Management Act on Heroes' Day last Monday in St Catherine, are to appear in court on November 24. \tThe police allege that the patrons ...
A number of people might have had unkind things to say when Laurence Johnson started barbering at 20 years old, but the deaf man obviously couldn't hear his critics.
Now nearly 25 years later, Johnson is revered as the most sought after barber in the cool rural community of Cascade, St Ann, and one of the most skilled in Christiana, Manchester, where he practises on weekdays.
“When I was growing, from about age 14, I used to sit and watch the barber cut people's hair, so I watched and learned,” Johnson, who was born deaf, told the Jamaica Observer in an interview via text message.
Johnson said his favourite thing about being a barber is seeing the smiles on his customers' faces when they get out of his chair and look in the mirror.
Johnson attended St Christopher's School for the Deaf in Brown's Town, St Ann, until he was 12 years old, then moved to St Andrew where he attended Lister Mair/Gilby High School for the Deaf in Papine.
THE Government is reviewing its decision to reopen Jamaica's rivers and beaches for public use, after finding “flagrant and repeated” breaches of the COVID-19 protocols to minimise the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus.
McKenzie, in a statement to the House of Representatives, said that his ministry has receive detailed reports, and has witnessed “flagrant and repeated” breaches of the critical protocols by large numbers of beach and river-goers.
The Government allowed a phased reopening of beaches and rivers effective Sunday, June 7, allowing people to visit public beaches licensed under the Beach Control Act during the operating hours of 6:00 am to 6:00 pm, and rivers from 6:00 am to 8:00 pm.
McKenzie said then that the relaxation of the restrictions on the beaches and rivers would remain in place for 14 days, after which there would be a review.
He told the House that the Social Development Commission (SDC), which falls under his ministry, had been observing activities at 58 beaches and 65 rivers over the last two weeks.
WESTERN BUREAU: More than three years after it first opened its doors to house some departments of the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC) remains committed to supporting the...
A 48 year-old farmer has been charged with the rape of a 15 year-old girl in Portland. \tHe was arrested and charged on Friday. \tThe police allege that on July 31 at about 9:00 p.m., the teen was one her way home when she was...
Some shocking allegations of misconduct have been levelled at teachers across the Caribbean as the debacle over this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) exams takes an...
Mayor of Kingston Senator Delroy Williams (left); Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange (third left) and Winston Harrison (right), Caribbean Cement Company contractor, use push brooms during a pre-Labour Day cleaning at Nelson Mandela Park in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew, yesterday, as part of a sanitisation project carried out by Caribbean Cement Company and Jamaica Pre-Mix Limited to clean external areas of three parks in Kingston and St Andrew — the other two being St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston, and the park in Papine square, St Andrew.
(Photo: Joseph Wellington)
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JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck has issued a come hither appeal to feuding gangs and dons islandwide, to use restorative justice as a channel for settling disputes.
\tNineteen-year-old Adoniyah Moncrieffe, otherwise called ‘Oneil’, of Upper Fifth Street in St Andrew has been charged with shooting with intent.\tIt is reported that about 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 23, two women were...
By Dr. Froswa' Booker-DrewColumnist This last month has been an interesting and yet, painful month to witness. First, the Dallas Morning News article sharing the story of the women who …
LUCEA, Hanover —The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is currently working with a team from The University of the West Indies (UWI) to create a verified voters' list for this year's JTA president-elect election.
I know that the JTA has requested certain information from members in order to create a verified voters' list, which is critical to the contest because we want to have a very good election that is free from any issues relating to its authenticity and integrity,” said Dr Garth Anderson, immediate past president of the JTA.
Addressing the JTA's Hanover annual general meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, Dr Anderson disclosed that the JTA is currently working on setting an election date.
During this year's conference, the current President Owen Speid is expected to hand over the baton to president-elect Jasford Gabriel, principal of Manchester High School in Manchester, who was elected last year.
It will also impact the format of this year's annual general conference, slated for August.
