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EFFORTS to find 15-year-old Sanique Leachman, who is suspected to have died after a major landslide in Shooter's Hill, Bull Bay, St Andrew, flattened the home she shared with her father, Romeo Leachman, continued up to press time last night.
Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
While new concerns looming about the nation’s capacity to contain a fresh outbreak of COVID-19 with the gradual reopening of the island’s borders, Errol Greene, the regional director of the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA), believes his administration is in a state of readiness to give of its best.
In an interview with The Gleaner on Tuesday, Greene said that although the opening of Jamaica’s ports to visitors and returning nationals is outside his administration’s control, the WRHA is doing all it can to put itself in a position to respond to whatever situation may arise.
The WRHA boss stated that among the measures being utilised to curtail the spread of the coronavirus is the geofencing technology, which is being used to monitor persons entering Jamaica’s borders to ensure that they adhere to quarantine guidelines.
We also have a team of persons who give literature to everyone coming in through the region’s ports, whether through Montego Bay or Falmouth, to tell them how to protect themselves,” explained Greene.
While noting the possibility of travellers entering the island with the virus, Greene said the health authorities must continue to be thorough in the fight against COVID-19.
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it continues to make significant strides in its streetlight repair programme following intense weeks of remedial works. \tThe company says it repaired over 1,700 lamps islandwide up the end of...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has granted an extension to residents of Standpipe, St Andrew, who have failed to regularise their power supply and upgrade on to a new monitoring and billing system. An ultimatum of Friday, August 7 had...
June Jordan was one of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist. Jordan was also known for her commitment to human rights and progressive political agenda. Jordan was the only child of Jamaican immigrant parents, Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maud Jordan, in Harlem, New York. Her father […]
Mayor of Kingston Senator Delroy Williams (left); Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange (third left) and Winston Harrison (right), Caribbean Cement Company contractor, use push brooms during a pre-Labour Day cleaning at Nelson Mandela Park in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew, yesterday, as part of a sanitisation project carried out by Caribbean Cement Company and Jamaica Pre-Mix Limited to clean external areas of three parks in Kingston and St Andrew — the other two being St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston, and the park in Papine square, St Andrew.
(Photo: Joseph Wellington)
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The Ministries of Industry, Investment and Commerce (MIIC) and Agriculture and Fisheries will soon launch a programme targeted at workers operating informally in household services, agriculture and fisheries to aid their transition to the formal...
[Balancing Act] London -- For several years IoT has been one of those annoying acronyms at conferences. In reality, it already existed in a number of M2M applications like fleet management. But actual innovation and new applications in Africa were thin on the ground, which is worrying as it forms part of the 5G business case. This week Russell Southwood talks to start-up founder Dave Okech, Aquarech about using IoT for fish farming.
Construction giant M & M Jamaica Ltd has donated much-needed masks to front-line healthcare workers at the Black River Hospital as well as care packages to approximately 500 households in Kingston and St Elizabeth to aid in COVID-19 relief efforts.
The company, with its head office in Kingston, donated disposable masks and food packages valued upwards of $500,000 for distribution through Speculation Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ and All Souls Anglican Church in St Elizabeth as well as Tarrant High School and the Church of the Ascension outreach programme in Kingston.
The communities to benefit are Pond Pen, Spring Park, Speculation, Cambridge, Brompton, Fyffes Pen, Shrewsbury, Luana, Oxford, New Town, and Killmurry in St Elizabeth, along with Jacks Hill, St Andrew, and Tarrant in Kingston
According to Nicola Morris, administrator at the Black River Hospital and directors’ warden at the All Souls Anglican Church, the donations are timely and will greatly benefit the over 300 staff members at the type ‘C’ hospital as well as hundreds of Jamaicans who have lost their source of income due to COVID-19.
The principal of Tarrant High School in Kingston, Major Paul Hall, says the school plans on targeting the donations to children on the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) who are now out of school.
M & M Jamaica Ltd has had a long-standing relationship with the parish of St Elizabeth owing to its founder and Managing Director Donald Mullings being a son of the soil.
The police are seeking the help of the public to locate two girls, one 16 and the other 12, who both went missing on Thursday, June 25.
The younger, 12-year-old Laqueensha Ball of Bridgeport in Portmore, St Catherine, was last seen at home, but it's not clear what she was wearing when she went missing.
The mode of dress for 16-year-old Valerie Goldson, who was also last seen at her home on Whitfield Drive, St Andrew between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., is also unknown.
Persons who may have seen the girls or know their whereabouts are being asked to call the Constant Spring Police at 876-924-1421/2; the Bridgeport Police 876-988-2697; visit or call the nearest police station or the police emergency number, 119.
Several communities in rural St Andrew remain marooned, following yesterday's heavy rains across the island. \tSpeaking with Radio Jamaica this afternoon, the National Works Agency's (NWA) communications manager, Stephen Shaw...
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — Academics, journalists and First Amendment lawyers are rallying behind New York University researchers in a showdown with Facebook over its demand that they halt the collection of data showing who is being micro-targeted by political ads on the world's dominant social media platform. The researchers say the disputed tool is vital to understanding how Facebook has been used as a conduit for disinformation and manipulation. In an Oct. 16 letter to the researchers, a Facebook executive demanded they disable a special plug-in for Chrome and Firefox browsers that they have distributed […]
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