Published:Friday | February 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
The Government is projecting a massive increase in housing opportunities for Jamaicans in the next fiscal year, with its three major agencies projecting increased spending and more than 8,400 housing starts by March 31, 2019.The main state agency,...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Dr Nigel Clarke has several messages he plans to share with residents of St Andrew North West in the lead-up to the March 5 by-election, but none more so than his ability to get things done. “I am taking a diverse platform of experience in...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Hit by a barrage of customer complaints and expressions of concern from the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) and the watchdog Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) when he took over as the new chief executive officer of Digicel Jamaica last...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Members of the People's National Party's (PNP) hierarchy are crying foul after news broke yesterday of a planned audit of Padmore Primary tomorrow, when its principal Keisha Hayle is scheduled to be nominated to contest the St Andrew North West by-...
Published:Thursday | February 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
With the Andrew Holness administration approaching the end of the second year of its scheduled five-year term, the opposition People's National Party (PNP) is moving to ensure that it has candidates in place to contest all 63 constituencies.The...
Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Despite its failed experiment with political newcomer Dr Shane Alexis in the recent by-election in St Mary South East, the People's National Party (PNP) has turned to another political neophyte to contest the looming race in St Andrew North Western....
Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has scoffed at claims that his decision to appoint Bryan Sykes to act as the country's chief justice is an attempt to overstep the bounds into the affairs of the judiciary."The notion that the acting appointment is for...
Published:Saturday | January 13, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has ditched diplomacy and reacted with anger over recent comments allegedly made by United States President Donald Trump in which Haiti, El Salvador and African countries were described as 's...holes'.According to...
Published:Friday | January 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) has dismissed claims that it has been the stumbling block in a proposed US$500-million development of the historic Port Royal into an international tourism hot spot.Obviously stung by the allegations,...
Published:Friday | January 12, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Jamaica's Ministry of Health and officials of other countries have convinced the General Assembly and the Executive Board of the World Health Organisation (WHO) to conduct a review to recognise the medicinal properties of ganja.The 40th Expert...
Published:Friday | January 5, 2018 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Government minister in charge of investments, Daryl Vaz, is adamant that the Andrew Holness administration is committed to the redevelopment of Port Royal.Vaz told The Sunday Gleaner that claims that the planned redevelopment is being stalled by...
Published:Saturday | December 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Several police divisions across the island were reporting an unusually high number of rank-and-file members calling in sick yesterday, prompting fears that the cops have stepped up their protest over the Government's failure to make them an improved...
Published:Saturday | December 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
No more oaths to the Queen, a focus on community policing, and a new authority to monitor their performances are some of the changes proposed in the latest draft of legislation to rebrand the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).The draft document, seen...
Published:Saturday | December 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Struggling to devise measures to stem the bloodletting in St James, where more than 310 persons have been killed since January, the leadership of the police force has scrapped its regular weekly review meeting tomorrow and instead summoned a high-...
Published:Tuesday | December 5, 2017 | 6:07 PMArthur Hall
The Government has underscored its commitment to begin the early retirement of some civil servants this fiscal year with the allocation of $983 million to cover this cost in the First Supplementary Estimate of Expenditure for the fiscal year.Prime...
Published:Thursday | November 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
The government should soon roll out several new measures to address the crime monster which has claimed more than 1,300 lives across the island since the start of this year.Minister of National Security Robert Montague last Thursday started a series...
Published:Sunday | October 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
It has been a cash-fuelled by-election season.The Government has admitted spending some $250 million on infrastructure works in the constituency, but the Opposition says the expenditure has been closer to $500 million.But that is just the start of...
Published:Thursday | October 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland has called for a 'coalition of the just' to tackle the scourge of organised crime.Going into a recent meeting of Commonwealth law ministers in The Bahamas, where it was noted that member...
Published:Thursday | October 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
One of the most anticipated legal rulings in Jamaica in recent time is expected to be handed down in the Supreme Court on Friday when Justice Viviene Harris rules how much the international pharmaceutical giant, Pfizer, should pay to Jamaican...
Published:Saturday | October 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
With one week to go before voters in South East St Mary go to the polls in a by-election, Trinidadian pollster Derek Ramsamooj is projecting a victory for the Jamaica Labour Party's Dr Norman Dunn, but he has warned the JLP that its win is not...
Published:Friday | October 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
One month after Hurricane Maria ravaged Dominica, Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland remains heartbroken over the devastation to the small island which is the land of her birth."It was absolutely heart-breaking," Scotland told...
Published:Wednesday | October 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Jamaica’s ailing justice system could be given a lifeline when the Commonwealth Secretariat unveils a package of legislative reform tools following a meeting of the groups’ law ministers in Nassau, Bahamas, which ends today...
Published:Monday | October 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Jamaica continues to rank among the countries that most respect freedom of information in the world, gaining two places to eight in the recently released Press Freedom Index 2017 by Reporters Without Borders.But organisers of a Media and Information...
Published:Monday | October 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMArthur Hall
Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips has criticised the Andrew Holness administration for what he says is its failure, since being elected Government, to continue the necessary reform of the economy at the pace that is needed."I think what is clear...
