Yardee Gleaner News Blog

Jamaica’s public service is being robbed of at least $4 billion yearly because of elaborate tax avoidance and tax-evasion schemes used by some companies, a new report has suggested. Fingers are being pointed particularly at multinational…

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Nine-year-old Raje Josephs has been battling with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma for more than a year and is in urgent need of a life-saving bone marrow transplant after undergoing nine cycles of chemotherapy and 26 cycles of radiation. Cancer of…

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The Holness administration is crafting intervention for men who batter and scar Jamaican women and children, oftentimes leaving the victims burdened by trauma long after their physical wounds have healed. An initiative to be spearheaded by the…

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Environmentalist Diana McCaulay is calling for an immediate ban as the Government urges suppliers of packaging products to find more eco-friendly alternatives to plastic options that have replaced styrofoam in the food and beverage industry….

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Alecia Sterling is almost at breaking point. The 28-year-old mother lives in the hilly reaches of Mavis Bank where two of her three children attend Mount Fletcher Primary School in rural St Andrew. Though Sterling has received a tablet from the…

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Western Bureau: Scores of residents in the Melbourne, Quarry, and Salt Spring road sections of Montego Bay, St James, cowered inside their homes on Tuesday night as gangsters brandishing assault rifles engaged each other in an hour-long gunfight,…

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The Above Rocks Police Station yesterday emerged the top performer in Area Five, shining as a ray of hope in a proud moment for cops in the St Catherine North Police Division, the second bloodiest in the island. It has been a particularly…

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There appears to be a brewing war of words between newly elected St Catherine South Eastern Member of Parliament Robert Miller and Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas. A recent between the men has escalated to the point where Thomas had reported an alleged…

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The Ministry of Health and Wellness has commenced the pilot of antigen testing for the coronavirus (COVID) at nine public health facilities islandwide. The month-long exercise, which got under way on Monday, November 23, is being conducted at the…

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BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Tens of thousands of fans eager to honour Diego Maradona lined up to file past the coffin of Argentina’s most iconic soccer star on Thursday, some confronting police who tried to maintain order at the country’s…

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