Amelia McKnight has achieved regional and national success in a subject she admits her family had neither the skills nor resources to fully practise: budgeting. Her ninth-place regional finish in family and resource management in the Caribbean...
The Equality for All Foundation Jamaica, formerly the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), has challenged what it describes as performative opposition from sections of Jamaica’s faith-based community, arguing that relations...
Tonielia Rowe’s eighth-place regional finish in textiles, clothing and fashion in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations feels like a first-place victory for Greater Portmore High School in St Catherine. Principal Ricardo...
The Boulevard Baptist Church membership last month voted down a proposal from its pastor, Reverend Devon Dick, to add to the agenda of a business meeting a discussion and vote on whether same-sex unions could receive “blessings” at the church....
Wayne Coley had only seconds to decide whether to stay or run. The 31-year veteran teacher at Frome Technical High School watched as his kitchen door flew open – twice – before the bedroom door did the same. The house, already shaking under...
Hampton School has opened its boarding facilities to dozens of senior students whose lives were upended by Hurricane Melissa, even as the Malvern, St Elizabeth-based campus battles its own storm-related damage. Principal Dr Mahvell Charlton-Brown,...
Seventeen-year-old Mijaun Talbot, the joint regional top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics performer for 2025, believes mathematics cannot simply be taught from the front of a classroom. For him, it is a subject to be...
A call is growing louder for Jamaica’s teacher-training colleges to integrate special education modules – or even full majors – into their programmes to better equip educators to support neurodivergent learners from kindergarten to high school. Dr...
The granddaughter of Senegalese royalty, Lady Mariéme Jamme has one main objective and it’s to use her platform to impact the lives of disadvantaged girls worldwide. She wants to do this by empowering them with educational tools for economic...
Trade unionist Lambert Brown, an industrial relations adviser to the Jamaica Medical Doctors Association (JMDA), is claiming that the Orders used for the interdiction of Dr Aujae Dixon are not applicable, amid discussions about the September 17...
A junior resident at May Pen Hospital who contested the September 3 general election as a People’s National Party (PNP) candidate is scheduled to face disciplinary proceedings on Monday. The Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA), his employer,...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness is set to open cognitive clinics to screen individuals displaying symptoms of dementia – a degenerative disease that impairs daily functioning, including memory loss, difficulty with language and thinking, and...
For years, it has been whispered in political and other circles – both within and outside of the People’s National Party (PNP), the political movement she once led as its first female president – that Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s trailblazing...
A growing exclusion from activities of economic empowerment, the denial of beach access, and land grabbing by the wealthy in Portland are among key issues of concerns raised by electors in the evergreen constituency of Portland Eastern, and the new...
Blessed with musical genes in his DNA, Isat Buchanan produced an album before becoming a lawyer. He once fancied himself becoming a big entertainer, following in the footsteps of his father, the legendary Manley ‘Big Youth’ Buchanan. But after...
Delroy Chuck was a well-established lawyer and legal educator before his entry into representational politics in 1997. A senior lecturer at the Norman Manley Law School at the time, he was more known for work through his law firm, Delroy Chuck...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has confirmed he will announce the date of Jamaica’s 19th general election today, making it the eighth such declaration delivered from Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, since 1949. With the political temperature rising,...
Opposition Senator and People’s National Party (PNP) spokesman on education, Damion Crawford, has issued a stark promise: if given the opportunity to lead the Ministry of Education, the system will either be fixed – or he will die. In an interview...
Seventy-five years after bauxite mining began in Jamaica, the industry that once spurred economic growth now stands at a crossroads, with its legacy marred by environmental degradation and economic loss. Jamaica, long celebrated as one of the world...
Stanley Broomfield has lived in south Manchester all his life. He has been a farmer since his days in primary school, learning the art, science, ecology, and economics of agriculture from his late father, Herbert ‘Mass Herbie’ Broomfield, more than...
Finding lasting solutions to Haiti’s deepening political, security, and governance crises is a top priority for Organisation of American States (OAS) Secretary General, Ambassador Albert Ramdin, during his 2025-2030 tenure. “I have made Haiti a...
As Jamaica edges closer to its general election, the latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll reveals Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness enjoys a slight but noteworthy edge over Opposition Leader Mark Golding in public favourability. Yet,...
Amid the ongoing threats to civil rights in the United States, which were earned through blood, sacrifice, marches – both silent and loud – and the peaceful demonstrations of those who fought for justice, Bishop Michael Curry, the first African-...
In November 2024, the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) informed Doreen* that the $500,000 loan secured for her child to study at The University of the West Indies for the 2019-2020 academic year had been fully repaid. The SLB congratulated her for...
Jamaica has a long-standing tradition of taking clear, principled positions in diplomacy, and in the evolving geopolitical landscape, the world needs more diplomacy, not less. This is the perspective of Deniese Sealey, Jamaica’s charge d’affaires...
