Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, has applauded the “tremendous efforts” of Angie Martinez, ambassador of the Dominican Republic to Jamaica, to increase regional interconnectivity, trade and investment since...
Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has described as “a watershed moment” the brokering of an agreement with 14 public-sector unions covering 60,000 workers that will rationalise a compensation scheme viewed as cumbersome and...
The $50 million that the Government previously set aside pre-COVID for a Wellness Research Fund will soon be disbursed to Jamaicans to execute public-health research. Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health and wellness, made the announcement...
THE GOVERNMENT is far advanced in its bid to establish the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Authority. Daryl Vaz, minister of science, energy and technology, made the announcement during his presentation at the Rotary Club of St...
Public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators have agreed to return to work today and are seeking to broker a payment proposal following a meeting with government officials at the Ministry of Transport and Works on Tuesday. Hundreds of taxi operators...
Retired registered nurse Winniefred Chambers-Dyer was among 11 persons honoured as Living Legacy awardees by the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Thursday. Chambers-Dyer, who spent 41...
THE RENOVATED Stony Hill Market is to be officially reopened on November 22, nine months after the originally scheduled reopening date. Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams made the announcement during the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation’s...
After three years of online courtship, Shamarah Pinnock thought she was destined to arrive in Jamaica on November 2 to spend time with her soulmate, Dameion Jarrett. As fate would have it, that plan did not materialise as Jarrett was murdered on...
Five years after the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) suspended service on its No. 81 Corporate Area route, the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has passed a resolution seeking its return, noting that many commuters,...
In a wide-ranging address at the first in a series of People’s National Party’s ‘Time Come to Put People First’ town hall meetings at Bridgeport High School in Portmore on Sunday evening, Mayor of Portmore Leon Thomas blasted the Government,...
SHADOW MINISTER for Land, Environment and Climate Change, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns, has scolded the Holness administration for its handling of the Clifton land matter and has called for a change in the national approach to allocation of land and...
Elon Higgins, overseer of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, called Sunday for investigators to double their efforts to arrest the perpetrators who killed correctional officer Shannon Briscoe three months ago. Briscoe, 38, went missing on August 11...
Despite the expenditure of $130 million for a new water supply system in the community of New Building in Nain, St Elizabeth, numerous residents complain that they still do not see themselves benefitting immediately. On Thursday, minister without...
Sugar cane farmers and their associates believe that the closure of farms and factories is a major factor fuelling Jamaica’s crime crisis, tapping the ranks of vulnerable, unemployed youths. Garfield Salmon triggered the discussion at Thursday’s...
Several senior government officials, among them Ambassador Sheila Sealy Monteith, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Wayne Robertson, acting permanent secretary in the Ministry of Legal and Constitutional...
As Jamaica was placed under tropical storm watch earlier this week, elderly couple Basil and Mavis Solomon stood in their crack-riddled house in Zion Hill, St Mary, praying and hoping that it would not slide away if pelted by heavy rains and winds...
Kiano Chance’s parents are in a race against time as the head to the United States Embassy in Liguanea, St Andrew, petitioning on his behalf for a visa to fly him to Florida with the hope of saving his life. Since his birth on July 15, the three-month-old has...
When breast cancer survivor Jeffena Fullcott-Dorman lost all hope of living in 2010, her husband, Michael Dorman, drilled into her mind the need to speak victory over her life. And that the Christian woman listened and did. Now she is able to...
Residents of Comfort Castle, Portland, are calling for the Government and other relevant authorities to impose an extended ban on fishing in the Rio Grande in their community as the treasured black janga/black Betty crayfish may soon become extinct...
The Government and private sector are being urged to partner on asset-building programmes and index-based agricultural and livestock insurance for Jamaicans, especially women. Index-based agricultural and livestock insurance is said to be a...
AGAINST THE background of Education Minister Fayval Williams’ plan to have greater engagement with uniformed groups, Jamaica Boys’ Brigade President Sydney England has appealed for state assistance, saying it needs a budget of approximately $15...
The Government is pumping $2 billion into a project which will see the construction of eight new fire substations along the south coast of the island. Prime Minister Andrew Holness made the announcement on Wednesday during the official opening of...
Two weeks after a lobby claimed that Rastafarian families were at risk of being evicted from Bob Marley Beach in St Thomas, Prime Minister Andrew Holness castigated critics as being mischief makers who are inimical to the progress of the eastern...
In an effort to combat the climate-change challenges of small island developing states (SIDS) such as Jamaica, Britain has returned to the island with its Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) model in an effort to woo investors to tap...
When the pandemic struck in early 2020 and resorts saw tourist figures plummeting and many shuttered their doors, an accompanying ban on large gatherings and restrictions on operating hours meant restaurants also significantly scaled back on...
