While waiting for its day in court challenging a Supreme Court ruling that detentions under states of emergency were in breach of the Constitution, the Andrew Holness administration has signalled that work is well advanced on new legislation to...
Edmund Bartlett, the leader of government business in the House of Representatives, on November 3, referred three motions to the Ethics Committee, one of which related specifically to Clarendon Northern Member of Parliament Dwight Sibblies. The...
Dwight Sibblies, the member of parliament for Clarendon Northern, has stepped aside from his role as chief internal auditor at the University of Technology (UTech) amid deepening enquiry into whether his political role and other public-sector job...
A senior executive of Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body says lawmakers should step up to the plate to ensure that the country’s legislative framework is conversant with international best practices. Greg Christie, the executive director of the...
The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) on Wednesday handed down a $12.5-million award to Dr Sandra Williams-Phillips, a consultant cardiologist who was unjustifiably dismissed some 11 years ago from the Bustamante Hospital for Children. In arriving...
Senior officers who presided over the $46.8-million contract awarded to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited to clean and sanitise eight locations in Ocho Rios, St Ann, last March have come in for sharp criticism in a revealing audit obtained by...
An audit conducted into the $46.8-million government contract awarded to Rahim’s Cleaning and Trucking Limited to sanitise and clean eight locations in Ocho Rios, St Ann, has unearthed worrying findings, including exorbitant pricing costs and...
Jamaica is struggling to handle a crime problem and now there is the added problem of having the United States pay specific attention to one of the areas the country seems to have excelled. The US now has particular players in the scamming '...
Opposition Senator Lambert Brown has been warned to retract his endorsement of vigilante justice or be deemed unfit to serve as a lawmaker. The call by a civil-society pressure group comes in the wake of a series of scandals in the Parliament and...
Describing extradition as a powerful anti-crime tool, a senior United States law-enforcement official said that two Jamaican players in multimillion-dollar lottery scams were now involved court proceedings locally and could be sent abroad for trial...
Days after the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) sought to isolate Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright over a smouldering assault scandal, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has urged the public to force lawmakers’ hands in...
Kenny Robinson, the father of 12-year-old Marquis, is a nervous man. Marquis, who suffers from a condition known as slipped upper femoral epiphysis (SUFE), has undergone two surgeries to correct the problem and is slated to do a third. But a...
The Jamaican Bar Association has raised concern that there is no provision in the current National Identification and Registration Act (NIRA) for an individual’s data to be purged from the database if a cancellation is requested. Making a...
CHAIRPERSON OF the National Council for Senior Citizens, Dr Denise Eldemire-Shearer, has said she has no problem with the Government’s elderly incentive programme that is linked to the COVID-19 vaccination exercise. On Wednesday, Minister of...
Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Dr Keith Rowley has said that the member states of the regional bloc are expected to receive the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX Facility by about mid-March. Jamaica’s Health...
The Dr Keith Rowley-chaired Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will write to the Biden administration in a matter of days appealing to Washington to share with states within the region supplies of COVID-19 vaccines. Rowley, who is also prime minister...
Greta Bogues, 62, a stalwart in corporate governance, is dead. Members of the combined private-sector bodies are struggling to come to grips with the sudden passing on Sunday of a woman described as a servant to Jamaica and a “treasure”. Officials...
Rank-and-file police personnel are requesting the provision of non-lethal weapons to manage explosive face-offs with mentally ill persons who are armed and dangerous, and which often have fatal consequences. Chairman of the Police Federation,...
The idea of putting minors behind bars is supposed to, largely, be about rehabilitation, but a Gleaner story on the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) report on the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correction Centre paints a picture that makes...
The leading private-sector groups in Jamaica are getting ready to lead a strong lobby of the Government to craft and promulgate legislation similar to the United Kingdom’s 2010 Bribery Act as part of efforts to reduce or eliminate corruption in the...
The reputed ‘jail block’, where wards at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre are sent for punishment, even being stripped to their underwear, should immediately be scrapped, a watchdog agency has said. Addressing a press conference on...
A culture of victimisation has been reportedly cultivated at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre, with officers charged with the supervision of minors subjecting them to human-rights abuse for trifling misdemeanours. The post-mortem from a...
Registrar and administrative vice-president of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Dr Mark Broomfield, has filed a notice of application for leave for judicial review in the Supreme Court challenging the decision by the university to advertise...
Nearly two decades after some members of the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) were hired by the commission of Parliament, the workers have not received gratuity due to them. The issue was highlighted in the 2018 annual report of the Office...
The Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) is pushing for increased powers to allow the commission of Parliament to submit reports to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) for rulings on breaches such as vote-buying. For years, many political...
