Having Nonsuch luck
At an out-of-the-way house on a bushy slope somewhere in the hills of east Portland, Archibald Lincoln is peering through a window. "Ah who dat?' he shouted as I approached. I stuttered a response. "Tan up!" he yelled. "Ah coming out!" I started questioning my decision...
Aleen marches through St Hugh's - Olympian encourages students to focus on schoolwork
St Hugh's High School students Micara Vassell and Kemoy Christie have described, as something special, the life lessons handed down to them by Aleen Bailey during a function held at the school on Tuesday. Bailey, who represented the successful Jamaican Olympic team...
Applying for a mortgage
Applying for a mortgage is one of the first steps to owning a home, rather than making onerous rent or lease payments on property that isn't yours.Wanica Purkiss, mortgage and operation executive at Jamaica National Building Society, advises house hunters to do thorough research...
Sub-par treatment for sickle-cell patients
Some doctors at Jamaica's leading sickle-cell research unit at the University of the West Indies (UWI) claim patients diagnosed with the blood disorder are not offered optimal health care. On a recent visit to the unit on the UWI's Mona campus...
'We were taken by surprise' - Teachers and students shaken up by chlorine gas incident
WESTERN BUREAU: The St Elizabeth Fire Department is maintaining that the cylinder containing harmful chlorine gas that was accidentally punctured by a student at the Maggotty High School, St Elizabeth, yesterday, should not have been on the compound...
More extension officers for RADA
The Government, in keeping with its thrust to increase the country's agricultural productivity levels, will spend roughly $24 million to increase the number of extension service officers serving the island.Twenty new agricultural employees, including...
Pink-eye red alert - Notice urges caution
Jamaicans have been urged to take precautionary measures to stem the outbreak of pink-eye across several parishes.St Catherine physician, Dr Raymoth Notice, told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the spike in incidence of pink-eye - also known as acute viral conjunctivitis...
Iris Gelly passes on
Iris Gelly, justice of the peace and People's National Party (PNP) stalwart, is dead. Gelly, 92, passed away on Monday. PNP President Portia Simpson Miller praised Gelly for her commitment to the party...
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