Education State Minister Alando Terrelonge disclosed yesterday that Cabinet has approved the acquisition of 100,000 tablets to be handed out to students as schools remain closed to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. Forty thousand tablets...
The Commonwealth Secretariat has urged member countries, including Jamaica, to make this the decade of gender equality, to give every girl the same opportunities as boys. Secretary General Patricia Scotland made the declaration at a gathering of...
The boundaries of Jamaica’s police divisions may be realigned as the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) grapples with a spike in murders despite steep declines in most other serious and violent crimes, Commissioner of Police Major General Antony...
Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says rescoping works are to blame for the several missed deadlines to wind up construction in reconfiguring the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James. The 400-bed hospital was partially taken offline in 2018...
The Guy’s Hill police in North East St Catherine has managed to rack up an enviable record of not having a single murder in their division in two years, way below the national average of almost five per day, and they are bent on keeping the streak...
Amid growing concern about an increase in sexual crimes against juveniles in Jamaica, the head of the country’s chief child-protection and welfare organisation has given strong endorsement of a more transparent sex offender registry. The debate...
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament appeared stupefied yesterday after the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Marsha Henry-Martin, failed to provide members with adequate answers in relation to high rental charges,...
President of the Ganja Growers and Producers Association Jamaica, Richard Crawford, is beseeching the Government to review legislation governing the fledgling medical marijuana industry to allow small farmers a greater stake. His assessment is...
Residents of several communities in and around Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, have been living without consistent piped water for decades, relying almost exclusively on rainfall and nearby streams to grow their crops and conduct household chores. It...
Karl Samuda, minister with portfolio responsibility for the ministry of education, youth and information, has declared the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) free of the problems that bedevilled its first official sitting last year. “All the kinks have...
While Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has decided to skip the 31st Intersessional Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, citing “pressing national issues” for his absence, the bloc’s chairman, Mia Mottley, has warned against external...
As questions continue to swirl around last Tuesday’s removal of Jamaicans from the United Kingdom (UK), a proclaimed “self-deportee” has warned that returning expats “who find themselves in a strange country” may be jolted by a culture shock....
Sixty-year-old Ivanhoe Spencer-Chen is insisting that his robbery conviction was based on “cooked-up” charges and that his protest of mistreatment in prison caused him to be carted off on a deportation flight to Jamaica. He was among a group of 17...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the Government he leads is crafting a sophisticated, well-thought-out national security plan as part of the strategic national economic growth and development agenda for the island. Holness was speaking last...
The Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC), in just a year, has seen a significant increase in the number of youth enrolled in the programme considered part of the Jamaica Defence Force’s (JDF) efforts to contribute to the changing of the culture of...
Former government senator Pearnel Charles Jr, nominated yesterday as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate in the Clarendon South East by-election, says innovation and inclusiveness will be his standard when he is declared the winner in the...
“They know what they were doing. I will be all right”, was all one man, the first to walk out of the Harman Barracks processing centre in Kingston, had to say before he was warmly embraced by his crying mother, Ann-Marie Williams. She hugged him...
A last-gasp attempt to halt the highly publicised deportation charter flight from the United Kingdom (UK) to Jamaica apparently failed, even though the Court of Appeal in London yesterday ruled that the Home Office refrain, at least for now, from...
The head of a United Kingdom (UK) pressure group is urging the Andrew Holness administration to deny landing rights to a charter flight from Britain with 50 Jamaicans to be deported to the island next Tuesday, after one of the detainees attempted...
A relative of one of the 50 people now being processed for deportation from the United Kingdom (UK) to Jamaica next Tuesday is appealing to the Boris Johnson-led Government to “give things a second thought”. Her request comes amid a protest that...
Donald Tapia, the United States (US) ambassador to Jamaica, says the US will remain neutral in the wake of an avalanche of alleged government corruption swirling in the public space. The often-outspoken US envoy used a speech to the Rotary Club of...
A new defence pact with the United Kingdom (UK) could be in the making if talks between Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) head, Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, and his British counterpart, General Sir Nick Carter, went as well as is being stated by the...
When the United Kingdom (UK) officially leaves the European Union (EU) at midnight, January 31, it will signal Britain’s exit from the European Union after a 47-year stay. The new dispensation, as reiterated by UK High Commissioner Asif Ahmad, is...
In about two weeks, Jamaica is to receive another batch of deported migrants (deportees) from the United Kingdom (UK). Unlike in the past, persons who will be aboard the specially arranged charter flight are not immigration offenders. UK High...
The parameters of Jamaica’s Sexual Harassment Act 2019 should be broadened to outlaw sexual harassment on the streets, including catcalls, an AIDS and gender advocate has said. Policy and advocacy officer of the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL...
