A PARLIAMENTARY committee reviewing the Integrity Commission Act, 2017, yesterday delayed its decision on whether to accept a recommendation to remove the auditor general from the list of commissioners of the single anti-corruption body....
FORMER JAMAICA Civil Service Association (JCSA) boss, O’Neil Grant, says his most significant achievement as president was the union’s work with the Government to retain hundreds of public sector jobs. This, they did, by forgoing wage increases in...
O’NEIL GRANT, immediate past president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA), says that there could be an exodus of talent from executive agencies to central Government, owing to the competitive rates of salaries now being paid by the...
Persons who modify, access, intercept, obstruct, interrupt or impair the computers, program, data or communications system of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) without authorisation under the Cybercrimes Act could find themselves in trouble with the...
TWO POWERFUL private-sector bodies have called for urgent steps to be taken by the Government to pass a bill before Parliament that provides for the impeachment of parliamentarians found to be involved in corrupt practices and running afoul of the...
ECONOMIST AND financial analyst Dr Adrian Stokes has argued that the material increase in the cost of the public bureaucracy to Jamaicans has come without a commensurate guarantee of improved productivity. “This is a problem for a country that has...
WHILE PRAISING Jamaica for stepping forward and leading a process to bring about a political solution to the crisis in Haiti, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has again made a strong appeal for a robust international police...
UNITED NATIONS (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described as “absolutely regrettable” the unfulfilled promises by developed countries to provide US$100 billion annually since 2020, in support of developing countries impacted by climate...
The severe problem of electricity theft in Jamaica, which has caused legal paying customers of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to dig deeper into their pockets to defray the cost of those accessing power free of cost, could be reduced...
FOLLOWING A flood of condemnation for an incident in which a female journalist was threatened with rape, and the same reporter and another media colleague castigated for wearing green at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) headquarters on Monday...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has signalled that it is taking steps this year to have members of the army who work alongside the police during operations to be outfitted with body-worn cameras. This comes against the backdrop of the acquisition...
A proposed amendment to the Child Care and Protection Act, which prescribes a term of not less than 20 years before a minor found guilty of committing murder becomes eligible for parole, is being described as “absolute madness” by one rights group...
Five years after Cabinet gave approval for the National Compliance and Regulatory Authority (NCRA) to carry out the regulatory functions previously discharged by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), the Senate passed legislation on Friday to give...
The leadership of the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) is peeved that up to Thursday, several public school educators had not received their March salaries which were due three weeks ago. Traditionally, teachers are paid early salaries in March,...
The Jamaica Public Sevice Company (JPS) and the National Works Agency (NWA) are yet to iron out the details of the handover of street lights along 15 corridors inspite of a sign-off by the Holness Cabinet. For years, darkness has prevailed along...
Lawmaker Everald Warmington has proposed sweeping changes to the Integrity Commission Act that would overhaul the anti-corruption body, excising the auditor general from the rank of commissioners and reverting the prosecutorial role to the director...
Integrity Commission Chairman Justice (Ret’d) Seymour Panton has lashed out at persons who have reportedly threatened the lives of persons working with the anti-corruption body. “We will not be frightened or scared into inactivity,” Panton told The...
Dr Maureen Dwyer, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY), has confirmed that the process to offer employment to workers at the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) and the National Council on Technical...
Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President La Sonja Harrison seemingly broke ranks with the leadership of her union on Monday when she refused to sign the compensation package that a record number of delegates voted to accept on Sunday. In a...
Despite plans this year to add 50 new buses to its fleet, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is projecting an operating loss of $11.4 billion for the upcoming financial year. This represents a $2.6 billion increase in the cash-...
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Metry Seaga, has not relented in his call for the Integrity Commission (IC) to clarify questions about its handling of a report and ruling on the alleged conflict of interest involving...
Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency. The commission’s publishing of a...
With data from recent studies showing that 23.3 per cent of Jamaican students aged 13 to 17 were overweight and/or obese, a medical practitioner is suggesting that the number may have spiked because of COVID-19 lifestyle disruptions. Dr Natalie...
Testy exchanges characterised a debate on a resolution to establish a bicameral sessional select committee of women in Jamaica’s legislature on Friday after one opposition lawmaker questioned the constitutionality of the move. The resolution had to...
The proposed dramatic increase in the mandatory minimum sentence from 15 to 45 years could render prisoner rehabilitation useless, a rights activist has said. Executive director of Stand Up for Jamaica, Carla Gullotta, theorises that those...
