For years, local contractors have got away with subpar work at high cost overruns on state projects. However, if Prime Minister Andrew Holness has his way, those days will soon be a thing of the past. Yesterday, at the signing of the contract for...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is urging fellow politicians not to allow political wrangling to derail the country’s infrastructure programme, given its overall value to national development. He made the call during yesterday’s contract signing for...
The Amazon has been burning for the past two weeks, releasing tonnes of carbon and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that were previously locked in the ground of the world’s largest rainforest. Its impact is already being assessed, with...
Women who practise heavy alcohol consumption are at risk of developing breast cancer amid a rise in the number of persons being diagnosed, according to a leading United States cancer researcher. Dr Mark Pegram, who is the first director of the...
Father of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro Ruz would have been 93 years old if he were alive today. Last Sunday, local politicians joined diplomats inside a packed Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) Auditorium in Kingston to celebrate the life...
The catastrophic fires ripping through the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil has drawn attention to how media houses around the globe are dealing with the subject of climate change. Insisting that climate change is a critical topic on which dialogue must...
Fresh jitters have emerged among members of the Windrush Generation in the United Kingdom since Boris Johnson succeeded Theresa May as prime minister last month. There are fears that the new prime minister could stymie efforts made to compensate...
Jamaica’s Professor Verene Shepherd has been re-elected to serve a second four-year term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The 2019 elections were held at the United Nations in New York on June 21...
Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) President Lloyd Distant says that no good can come from a parliamentary walkout by either Government or Opposition members, saying that the move was counterproductive to the delivery of wholesome legislation to...
Tufts University’s Professor Dr Kris K. Manjapra has argued that Britain has a big case to answer with regard to reparations for slavery in Jamaica. His assertion comes amid increased calls for reparations in recent months against the background of...
CARICOM partners remained adamant yesterday that Jamaica should make further payments to the Caribbean Development Fund after they were told ahead of one of the caucuses at the 40th Heads of Government Conference in St...
Results coming out of dialogue on the issue of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) at the 40th CARICOM Heads of Government meeting now under way in St Lucia will be critical to national and regional economic development, says Howard...
Approximately $65 million was paid to consultants to carry out the strategic review into the operations of the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam, Energy Minister Fayval Williams has revealed. The disclosure came during yesterday’s sitting of the...
Former People’s National Party (PNP) member of parliament (MP) and government minister Rudyard Lawson was yesterday remembered as a great family man and an exceptional politician in a thanksgiving service at the Sts Peter and Paul Catholic Church...
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has taken Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President-elect Owen Speid to task over statements he made regarding the recent Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. The ministry has rejected as false,...
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said news of the vulgar anti-Kingston College chant spurred by the North Street-based school’s successful campaign to snap Calabar High’s multi-year Champs winning streak had left him feeling upset. Patterson, a...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) have inked an agreement to retrofit air-condition systems and improve energy efficiency at three police facilities at a cost of $126.5 million. The contract was...
Two months after eight-year-old Shantae Skyers was raped, murdered and her body dumped in bushes on her way home from school in her rural St Andrew community, relatives are afraid her attacker could escape justice as investigators are still trying...
As the Jamaica Defence Force fired the first round in the 19-gun salute indicating that the cortège was starting its journey from the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity towards National Heroes Park in Kingston yesterday, excitement filled the air...
Quick-thinking householders cashed in on chaotic scenes on the outskirts of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in downtown Kingston yesterday as mourners who could not land a seat in the funeral for Edward Seaga’s funeral forked out hundreds of dollars to...
A Manchester, England-based activist group, Windrush Defenders, has earmarked Saturday, June 22, as a Day of Action and is calling for Jamaicans to help spur political dialogue among local politicians on the impact the Windrush scandal is having on...
Delegates of the 8th Biennial Jamaica Diaspora Conference have fully endorsed the National Diaspora Policy, signalling their support for the document in its draft stage, effectively giving the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade the green...
Before there ever was an official invite to Ghana for the Year of Return, Audley Sinclair Morris, a Jamaican from Mona in St Andrew, fell head over heels for the West African country. “I am now on the brink of getting my Ghanaian citizenship. I...
Jamaicans at home receiving remittances from relatives in the United Kingdom (UK) could find that supply of cash drying up depending on the outcome of Britain’s charge to leave the European Union, asserts Dr Kevin Brown, chairman of the Jamaica...
Cherie Johnson, one of the 2019 Governor General’s Jamaica Diaspora Award for Excellence recipients, says that the power of positive thinking and a hunger for valuable educational experiences provided the stimulus to turn her life around after...
