A pioneering female in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and its oldest retiree were yesterday honoured by the Association of Past Members of the JCF during a special ceremony to celebrate their birthdays. Iris Tulloch, 88, former superintendent of police,
Fed up with the number of senseless killings in the constituency of Central Kingston which have left their students traumatised, several teachers yesterday journeyed from the Holy Family Primary School to the Jamaica Teachers' Association headquarters on Church Street, crying
Four days to go! "My relationship with my mother was always intense and often traumatic, and I see now that it, along with my experience of the power struggle between men and women, as observed first in my parents' troubled
The Ministry of Education yesterday conceded that it made a mistake when it decided against recommending the Scotiabank Jamaica Foundation Scholarship to the student who had the highest score in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) last year.
Thousands of job applicants turned out at the headquarters of the Christian Fellowship Outreach Ministry in St Andrew yesterday morning, hoping to snatch a place among the 200 being recruited as warders for the Department of Correctional Services....
THE ABOLITION of criminal libel has been included in a list of recommendations for modernising the country's defamation laws. The report of the Justice Hugh Small Committee which contains the recommendations was laid in the House of Representatives yesterday....
Dr Luis Palau, an international Christian evangelist, has charged religious leaders to stage fun-filled functions to attract more young people. Palau was speaking with The Gleaner during a reception held in his honour at the Hilton Kingston hotel in New
People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has rejected claims that the party was in disarray. Simpson Miller was responding to questions from journalists as the party launched the celebration of its 70th anniversary at its Old Hope Road
Fly, swing or dash to your local comic store Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, when shops throughout Southwest Florida, across the country and around the world give away comic books absolutely free.
When The NEWS newspaper celebrated its 19th anniversary last Saturday, it was not only time to merry make and reflect on the past, but also, it was an occasion that several individuals and institutions identified with the paper in a
The deputy director-general for information of the Angolan state-run news agency ANGOP, Luisa Damiao, is since Tuesday in Cabinda, for a four-day visit to assess the work of the company's office in this northern province.
People charged with assaulting the editor of a weekly tabloid and a fellow journalist were promised to be paid Sh2 million by an employee of Bakhresa Company, a Dar es Salaam court heard yesterday.
South Africa's newspaper editors are boring. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're not good editors; after all, they're having to work under trying conditions, such as increasing political pressure on freedom of the press and having to balance
Many of our African members will be in Maputo, Mozambique for official UNESCO events. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), the Media Foundation for West Africa, the Africa Free Media Foundation, Media Rights Agenda from Nigeria and the Africa
The winners of the National Journalism Award in the categories of print, photo-journalism, radio and television, will be announced Wednesday night in Luanda.
The Central Regional branch of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has sent a word of caution to all journalists to be circumspect in their reportage especially as the nation prepares for the 2008 general elections in order not to throw
