Christopher and Andrea Jacobs were eagerly anticipating celebrating son Kristophe’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination results at the family home in Sydenham Gardens, just outside Spanish Town, on Tuesday evening. They...
Though badly bruised from its pummelling at the polls on September 3, the People’s National Party (PNP) will recover from its worst electoral beating in 40 years, elder statesman P.J. Patterson has said. But the former prime minister and party...
Legislation banning styrofoam has spurred a boom in plastic food packaging, which inadvertently presents a similar, if not worse, problem regarding a rise in non-biodegradables. Senator Matthew Samuda, who in 2018 piloted the ban on single-use...
Anti-colonial campaigner Bert Samuels believes that Jamaica should follow in the footsteps of Barbados in dumping the Queen of England as head of state. Samuels, a reparation lobbyist, said that the retention of the monarchy in Jamaica’s...
Several opposition senators have disclosed that they have not considered resigning their posts to give a new party president a free hand when Dr Peter Phillips steps down. But it is unclear whether that position will open a new round of conflict in...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness laid out a list of “nation-building” investment strategies, including a world-class broadband system that he says will create the space needed for Jamaica to return to economic growth. Holness was speaking for the...
Returning growth and development to rural communities is crucial to the Holness administration’s bid to stem urban drift and brain drain, says State Minister Homer Davis. Davis, the member of parliament-elect for the farming-dependent St James...
Glum Residents of New Monkland, a community in St Thomas’ hilly interior, have, for years, been forced to use a narrow bypass to travel from one end of the community to the other. That’s because about 20 years ago, the rushing river some 10 feet...
Jamaica remains at Tier 2 on the US State Department’s Human Trafficking Index, the island’s rapporteur on trafficking in persons (TIP), Diahann Gordon Harrison, has said. However, the lack of prosecution remains a serious challenge and concern for...
“Absolute rubbish!” That was the sentiment of People’s National Party (PNP) supporters in Frog City to notions that the St Andrew East Central seat occupied by long-serving Member of Parliament Dr Peter Phillips could swing to the ruling Jamaica...
Late Jamaica-born author and social worker Phyllis Coard, the lone woman convicted among the Grenada 17 in the bloody coup that uprooted Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, has been praised as a fearless advocate of women’s rights. The 73-year-old...
Harry Morrell is not a magician, but no one would argue about a name change if he’s called the Houdini of Jamaican politics after the performance of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in last Thursday’s general election victory, in which they won 48 of...
There WERE no reported breaches surrounding voting by people with COVID-19 who emerged from isolation or any of the nearly 30,000 who have been precautionarily quarantined on election day, last Thursday, Director of Elections Glasspole Brown has...
Not many diehard People’s National Party (PNP) supporters anticipated the political thrashing meted out to them by the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in Thursday’s general election. The JLP outmanoeuvred and outpolled the PNP to win...
Even before the election was called, word on the ground was that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had Westmoreland Central in its cross hairs. That target was hit in devastating fashion, with candidate George Wright, councillor for the Petersfield...
Seventy-seven-year-old Admiral Town resident Cherry Creary says she is sticking with the People’s National Party (PNP) despite opinion polls showing the odds stacked against the Opposition as Jamaicans head to the polls today. Revealing that she...
Canvassers are crucial to the back-end operation of counting your eggs on election day. But it is the efficiency of the runners and mobilisation crews that ultimately deliver victory. Heaving ailing grandmothers and stuffing taxis with voters is a...
Supporters of the People’s National Party (PNP) in St Mary South East are upbeat about their candidate’s chances in Thursday’s general election and are pointing to an upset win over the incumbent Dr Norman Dunn of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Dr...
Health workers in at least four health centres in St Catherine, Clarendon, St Elizabeth and St Ann say they are worried that the spike in COVID-19 cases will overwhelm primary healthcare across the island. Jamaica recorded one death related to...
Candidate for the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the constituency of St Thomas Western, James Robertson, is seeking a fourth consecutive hold as its member of parliament, and he simply cannot be any more confident. Reeling off a long list of...
St Thomas resident Karen Smith says she walked two miles to the checkpoint at Church Corner, the COVID-19 epicentre in western St Thomas, to give her little sister food for her 67-year-old mother. Smith said the government-imposed quarantine of...
Despite flagging poll numbers showing both the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and its leader trailing their counterparts, co-Campaign Director Phillip Paulwell has projected that the party will triumph in the September 3 general election...
People’s National Party (PNP) incumbent candidate for St Andrew South Eastern, Julian Robinson, has rejected claims that he has done little for the constituency as member of parliament (MP). Kari Douglas, the turncoat Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)...
Inner-city communities such as Jacques Road and Woodford Park in St Andrew South Eastern have been promised that they will return to their former glory under a new Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration. Party leader Andrew Holness gave that...
Incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn and her People’s National Party (PNP) challenger Krystal Tomlinson were exuding confidence after their respective nominations in the St Andrew West Rural on Tuesday. Cuthbert-...
