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Published:Wednesday | April 21, 2021 | 12:22 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Flagging public outrage over a domestic violence scandal, House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert called out the Opposition on Tuesday, pushing for there to be a definitive statement on whether members of parliament who are involved in criminal...

Published:Monday | April 19, 2021 | 12:20 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

With concerns that high-risk people in deep rural communities have not been netted by the mass vaccination programme over the past six weeks, one public-health expert says the roll-out of the mobile immunisation units could prove crucial in...

Published:Saturday | April 17, 2021 | 12:21 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Despite the police closing the assault case involving Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament (MP) George Wright, his political future weighs in the balance as the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Disciplinary Committee prepares to review the...

Published:Saturday | April 17, 2021 | 12:08 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is set to ratify that George Wright, the embattled Westmoreland Central member of parliament, go on a leave of absence from the party until investigations into allegations that he was involved in a brutal beating of a...

Published:Wednesday | April 14, 2021 | 5:44 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

In a shot across the bow directed at world powers like the United States, Prime Minister Andrew Holness cast Jamaica’s mass vaccination of more than 75,000 people over four days as a global marker and laid down the gauntlet for hoarders of the life...

Published:Tuesday | April 13, 2021 | 12:21 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jamaicans in St Vincent and the Grenadines have described the eruption of La Soufrière volcano, which has been spewing gas and ash since last week, as a frightening experience. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith has...

Published:Monday | April 12, 2021 | 12:19 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Jitters are now starting to set in for those waiting on the United States J-1 visa, used to access the lucrative work-and-travel programme. The Trump-era ban on the J-1 visa expired on March 31, 2021, and the Biden administration has not extended...

Published:Thursday | April 8, 2021 | 12:26 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

As if the economic pressures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic weren’t enough, thieves have been cleaning out farmers in Lawrence Tavern. Donald Clarke came close to tears as he told The Gleaner of how thieves are reaping the fruits of his...

Published:Wednesday | April 7, 2021 | 12:23 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Schoolteacher Annetta Clarke is holding out hope that with the vaccination roll-out, she will be able to see students face-to-face at her Lawrence Tavern school when the new academic year begins in September. Unplugged from the classroom, physical...

Published:Wednesday | April 7, 2021 | 12:13 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

A teacher-soldier couple living in Portmore, St Catherine, is heartbroken, accusing nurses at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) of shoving their dead baby into their arms to bond. David Bartley and his wife believe that if more...

Published:Wednesday | March 31, 2021 | 12:21 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

As pressure mounts on the Andrew Holness administration to respond to recent chilling attacks on women, government backbencher Kerensia Morrison questioned, on Tuesday, discounts of up to 50 per cent on sentences for persons who plead guilty to a...

Published:Wednesday | March 31, 2021 | 12:07 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Ahead of a decision on a two-year extension as vice chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Sir Hilary Beckles sought to defend his stewardship on Monday, telling stakeholders to keep faith with the administration. In his ‘State of...

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2021 | 9:12 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

While there has been robust opposition to the Ministry of Finance’s COVID recovery plans, there are those praising the measured response. Some of those praises come from very high places, as The Gleaner revealed on Friday. Published March 26...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2021 | 12:20 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Dr Jephthah Ford, a fierce social-justice campaigner whose bombast and acid tongue earned friends and foes alike, died suddenly in Cherry Gardens, St Andrew, on Sunday. The 69-year-old’s latest cause celebre was getting the truth in post-mortems,...

Published:Thursday | March 25, 2021 | 12:23 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Uncertainty looms over whether the Jamaican Government’s immunisation drive will be hamstrung after India placed a temporary hold on all exports of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Rising infections in the subcontinent have driven up...

Published:Wednesday | March 24, 2021 | 12:15 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

In a high-drama session of Parliament on Tuesday, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke ripped into the Budget presentations of the Opposition, saying they lacked due diligence and were rife with falsehoods. Clarke took aim especially at Julian Robinson...

Published:Monday | March 22, 2021 | 10:29 PMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Defence Force has been in the news over the impropriety of its members again. The latest saga, if true, means the JDF are adding to the alarming rate at which violence against women is committed in Jamaica. Published March 20, 2021 JDF...

Published:Monday | March 22, 2021 | 9:36 PMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

According to Leader of the Opposition People’s National Party’s Mark Golding, the poor in Jamaica have been suffering through taxation on a number of levels. There is one organisation, Golding has explained, has benefitted from one of...

Published:Monday | March 22, 2021 | 12:29 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

The Government is not shy in admitting that the global shortage of COVID-19 vaccines is weighing on the mind of the Holness administration, but it is holding firm that it will only use products approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). That...

Published:Monday | March 22, 2021 | 12:28 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Complaints of misconduct by the army and police force skyrocketed last year as the Holness administration increased its reliance on states of emergency (SOEs) and joint patrols to rein in crime. But analysis does not suggest that the widening...

Published:Saturday | March 20, 2021 | 12:22 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

In another massive blow to the reputation of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), two of its members have been charged with serious sexual offences including rape at the army’s Up Park Camp Headquarters in St Andrew. At the centre of the latest...

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:30 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday blasted Opposition Leader Mark Golding for suggesting that Jamaica’s standing on the international stage has crumbled under the ruling Jamaica Labour Party. Holness declared that his administration would...

Published:Friday | March 19, 2021 | 12:05 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

There is a row between Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke and Opposition Leader Mark Golding over a $33-billion dividend that is being paid over to the Government by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). During the Budget Debate on Tuesday, Golding noted that...

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:32 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Opposition Leader Mark Golding said the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) guarantor system should be abolished as it is undermining the path to prosperity for children from low-income households. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke, in opening the Budget...

Published:Wednesday | March 17, 2021 | 12:31 AMRomario Scott/Gleaner Writer

Picking apart one of the central highlights of Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s Budget presentation, Opposition Leader Mark Golding cast a Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) dividend of $33 billion as the fruit of an effective tax that has oppressed the poor...

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