Stories by Arthur Hall

A Corporate Area businessman could face a multimillion dollar fine after he allegedly attempted to import a shipment of plastic bags in breach of the ban imposed on January 1.The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that as part of its monitoring and...

Allegations of cronyism, nepotism and mismanagement have surfaced around yet another entity in the former Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology.This time it is e-Learning Jamaica, which is being placed under the microscope as sources claim all...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has vowed that the Government will use the security forces to ensure that the fight against crime, which has led to a 21 per cent decline in murders since the start of the year, will continue into the new year when the...

Dr Andrew Wheatley, who held the energy portfolio for most of the past two years, has expressed disappointment and pain at the damning findings by the Auditor General's Department (AGD) into the operations of Petrojam.According to Wheatley, while...

His dream is to make it big in music while operating the best natural smoothies joints across Jamaica.But while he chases his dream, 'Elijah Bello' would like a steady income. He thought he had found one after acing an interview and providing proof...

For weeks he was the target of almost every dart flung by the parliamentary Opposition, and even members of civil society joined in, as more and more damning allegations came out about operations at entities in the Ministry of Science, Energy and...

A seemingly botched attempt by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) to fire one of its employees has left the agency facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit and a court injunction blocking the dismissal.Farrah Blake, a manager at the UDC subsidiary...

The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has paid out just over $17 million to its former executive director Jennifer Edwards to settle her wrongful dismissal case.In May the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) ruled that the March 2105...

HIV prevalence among Jamaica's female sex workers is continuing the steady decline recorded over the past 10 years, but the intimate partners of these women continue to put themselves at risk by refusing to use condoms.That's according to the...

Jamaicans are starting to be more tolerant in many areas but the question of aborting on demand is still a no-no.In a recently conducted all-island poll by the Johnson Survey Research Limited, the majority of respondents said the laws governing...

Almost 38,000 or six per cent of Jamaican children between 5 and 17 years old were engaged in child labour during 2016. Furthermore, nearly half (48.9 per cent) of the working children were involved in hazardous work or activities...