Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) Jeanette Calder says the failure to table two reports from the auditor general for more than a month is a serious threat to efficient parliamentary oversight and monitoring of...
The 30,000-strong Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has given its leadership a mandate to resolve outstanding issues under the compensation review exercise with the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service speedily or its members will not...
While welcoming Everald Warmington’s resignation from the Cabinet on Thursday, one accountability advocate is urging Prime Minister Andrew Holness to revisit his 2016 election pledge that would allow for the impeachment of public officials for...
Strong calls have come from members of civil society for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to sack controversial lawmaker and senior Cabinet minister Everald Warmington for his emphatic suggestion that he would starve People’s National Party (PNP)...
The general secretaries of the country’s two major political parties are oozing with confidence ahead of the political showdown on Monday when Jamaicans will decide who holds the reins in the 13 parish municipalities and the Portmore city...
With the allocation of $1.7 billion by the Government to facilitate a little more than two million electors to exercise their franchise in the local government elections, which take place today and Monday, Chairman of Citizens Action for Free and...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, in her recently tabled 2022-2023 annual report, issued 22 “disclaimer opinions” to at several municipal corporations for their failure to properly account for billions of dollars spent or in their possession....
Political commentator Dr Paul Ashley says the February 26 local government elections will be a straight fight between Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader Mark Golding as the electorate has little or no knowledge of their local...
The financial haemorrhaging at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is expected to continue in the 2024-2025 financial year with the state-owned transport body projecting nearly $16 billion in losses. This compares with a $9.7-billion...
The two-year window for public entities, private businesses and other institutions to retrofit their buildings to allow members of the disabled community to access their services or products more easily or face possible sanctions expires today....
The electoral muscles of the two major political parties were on full display on Thursday as die-hards turned out in their numbers to support their candidates who were nominated to contest the February 26 local government elections. In an apparent...
If the People’s National Party (PNP) secures the majority of municipalities in the upcoming February 26 local government polls, this could be construed as a national referendum on the performance of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...
Palpable fear and nightmarish encounters have become commonplace for Dr Elsa Amanu* and her 12-year-old son after nearly three years of traumatic experiences at their home in Green Acres, St Catherine. Amanu, who came to Jamaica from Venezuela to...
Jervis Moore, director of investigations at the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA), has called for greater partnership and cooperation between the public and private sectors and law enforcement in order to step up the fight...
HEAD OF Fraud Prevention at the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dane Nicholson, is urging the Government to craft legislation with tougher penalties for persons who devise fraudulent schemes to defraud customers of financial institutions. Citing...
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has raised questions about the Integrity Commission’s (IC) effectiveness in using the model of reviewing statutory declarations of public servants as a means of tackling corruption...
JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck has accused his opposition counterpart Donna Scott-Mottley of “politicising” a comment he made about the disposal of properties belonging to persons who died without making a will. Scott-Mottley, in a news release...
A majority of Jamaicans 18 years and over have voiced strong support for the country to replace the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). An RJRGLEANER Communications Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll...
Deputy Leader of the People’s National Party (PNP) and Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley says her party is extremely disappointed that the Government has placed discussion on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the backburner. Mottley, who...
Former National Security Minister Peter Bunting says the non-disclosure of the names of the six parliamentarians who are being investigated by the Integrity Commission (IC) for illicit enrichment could have a chilling effect on information sharing...
FIVE MONTHS after missing its second target of March 2023 to complete data collection for the population census, the head of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) says the agency will not be revealing a new deadline at this time. STATIN...
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has cautioned against “speculations” about the “nature of the illicit enrichment” for which six members of the Lower House are being investigated by the Integrity Commission (IC). In a Gleaner interview on Monday,...
Revelations this week by the Integrity Commission (IC) that the six parliamentarians being probed for illicit enrichment have been notified of the investigations have again placed the spotlight on the so-called gag clause. Jeanette Calder,...
IT WAS a matter that felt like life or death. Kenneth Myrie’s health was declining rapidly and he wanted a copy of his medical records dating back to 2004 to determine what type of medical procedure was carried out on him at the Kingston Public...
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....
