Fifty-five-year-old Pam (last name withheld), the lone female among 29 deported migrants who were processed at Harman Barracks after being sent from the United Kingdom on a charter flight to Kingston yesterday, has castigated the Jamaican...
As the community of Belgium in Grants Pen, St Andrew, tries to pick up the pieces from last Thursday’s deadly blaze which claimed the lives of two-year-old twins Nahelia and Nahalia Pinnock, one neighbour is finding it particularly hard to...
A quintessential family man, friend, and a hard worker was how family, friends and colleagues remembered former government minister and trade unionist, Dwight Nelson, at his funeral yesterday. Tribute after tribute at a packed Cathedral of the...
The National Water Commission (NWC) is hoping that negotiations with an undisclosed partner reaches a satisfactory conclusion for the utility company to start work this year on the construction of a new 15-million imperial-gallon-per-day water-...
As far as achievements go, being appointed a senator in the Canadian Parliament is a huge deal for Jamaican, Dr Rosemary Moodie.She was appointed to the Senate by the Canadian Governor General Julie Payette on the advice of Prime Minister Justin...
More than 100 homeless persons in and around downtown Kingston were treated by the Rotaract Club of New Kingston last week at the Marie Atkins Shelter.They were able to access dental care, including cleaning, fillings, and extractions by the Jamaica...
The Venezuelan Embassy in Kingston remains silent on the unravelling of the Petrojam partnership in which the Jamaican Government is looking to retake the 49 per cent stake the South American country owns in the state-owned oil refinery.Several...
Jamaica's first female poet laureate, Lorna Goodison, was among a distinguished field of five who were awarded the prestigious 2018 RJRGLEANER Honour Awards at the newspaper's North Street offices in downtown Kingston yesterday.Goodison received the...
The United Kingdom-based pressure group - Windrush Movement - is demanding greater transparency and assurances from the Jamaican Government, following the Windrush scandal and the apparent ease with which the British government has, in some cases,...
There could be as many as 330 deaths attributed to road traffic crashes this year, the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport and Mining is projecting.Last year, 383 persons died on Jamaica's roads, the most since the 391 recorded back in...
The National Health Fund (NHF), cited for its excellent contribution to the health needs of Jamaicans, was among a list of six to be awarded yesterday at the 2018 RJRGLEANER Honour Awards, the 39th edition.Also awarded were Dr Wendel Abel,...
The hope of a meeting between representatives from the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development and Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis, which was set for today to discuss concerns they have with the report that was tabled in...
Marvin Hall has talked the talk and is now walking the walk in an effort at giving Jamaican children an opportunity to be on a level playing field as their counterparts in other more developed countries, and in the process, he has pioneered a new...
State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Pearnel Charles Jr says that strengthening the relationship with the diaspora must include pertinent input from critical stakeholders as much as from the Government.This active...
Poor planning and failure to do adequate due diligence have resulted in the public coughing up an additional $30 million for renovation work at the Hagley Park Road, St Andrew, offices of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development....
Having overpaid by some $7.1 million on the five-year lease agreement for its Hagley Park Road, St Andrew, offices over a two-year period, the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development is being asked by the Auditor General's Department...
The five-year-long US$42.5 million Kingston and St Andrew Non-Revenue Water (NRW) Reduction Programme is bearing fruit, according to president of the National Water Commission (NWC), Mark Barnett.Non-revenue water levels in Kingston and St Andrew...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) says it stands in support of a planned winding down of operations at the Riverton City disposal site in St Andrew to move centralised waste-management activities to other sites across the island.The announcement...
A National Diaspora Policy is one of the many major agenda items for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade for 2019.State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Pearnel Charles Jr says the policy is likely to be...
The National Water Commission (NWC) is to spend $1.5 billion to replace the existing transmission pipelines from Ferry to Six Miles in St Andrew. This follows the massive break in the line some 35 feet below the surface in a section of the Mandela...
Residents in sections of Denham Town and Hannah Town in west Kingston say they are worried that a lack of piped water in their communities since August could derail school plans for the new term starting January 7 next year.Pleading their case is...
Typical of most inner-city communities, residents in the western Kingston constituency of Fletcher's Land depend largely on their internal systems to create for themselves. These include the wildly popular roadside parties and round-robin series of...
State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Pearnel Charles Jr says that the Government has been taking steps to curtail violence against returning residents in a number of communities across the country, including Mandeville, Manchester....
Sinopharm Pan-Caribbean has established business units in medical equipment trading and healthcare in Jamaica and the Caribbean region, says General Manager Peter Zheng."Sinopharm is actively coordinating and cooperating with the Ministry of Health...
Executive Director of National Integrity Action (NIA), Professor Trevor Munroe, has called on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to take steps to ensure that regulations are drafted urgently to bring into effect the Public Procurement Act.This...
