BRYAN’S BAY, Portland — Horace Burke stood on the beach in this town on Jamaica’s north-eastern coast Friday looking out at the same angry sea that had taken his 16-year-old son Shane the day before.
IAN Boyne seemed genuinely chastened when a journalistic gaffe, inserted without bad intent, he said, by an editor into his weekly Gleaner column made him appear to take a side swipe at Sandrea Falconer, the new information minister, to suggest that she is “arrogant, abrasive, not likeable or credible”.
IT’S been long in coming, but four years after the Bible Society of the West Indies embarked on its most controversial project ever, the organisation is reporting that it has translated all of the New Testament into Jamaican Patois.
THE pungent odour that left one feeling nauseous, the filthy walls and the grey clumps and wisps of ancient cobwebs that hung in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) last August are gone.
A 44-year-old disabled man is hollering discrimination after local examiners refused him the chance to do a driver’s licence test last month. Gausia Burchell wants to drive his own car, like thousands of other Jamaicans, but the law says he can’t because he is paralysed from the waist down.
THE insistence of the Ministry of Education that all high school principals must be, among other things, holders of a teaching certificate, has foiled one high school’s plan to have a confirmed principal for the first time in almost a decade.
ANTIPATER of Sidon, a Greek poet, would be writing travel guides had he lived now.
ERROL ‘Jigs’ Ennis might have lost his sight, but the former parliamentarian’s indomitable spirit won’t let him slink off into obscurity.
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — With the installation of the new Custos of Manchester Sally Porteous finally a done deal, Manchester Chamber of Commerce (MCOC) President and Justice of the Peace (JP) Wendy Freckleton wants an end to the conflict among parishioners over her appointment.
FOR decades, Sem Kun Chin was the woman who stood beside the man and children who built Super Valu Supermarket located off Mannings Hill Road in Kingston.
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