Unfounded and untrue is how Audley Gordon, executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), described reports that heavy-duty equipment operators at the Riverton City disposal site had taken industrial action. He also...
Following the multimillion-dollar upgrading work to make at least four of the country's lock-ups more fitting to accommodate juvenile offenders two years ago, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), which has day-to-day responsibility for operation,...
Taxpayers will have to fork over an additional $32 million to bring a number of juvenile detention facilities up to minimum acceptable standards before they can be commissioned into service, a revelation that left lawmakers stunned on Tuesday. This...
The RJRGLEANER Communications Group has given the two political parties contesting three by-elections set for Monday, October 30 by this afternoon to say if they will accept its invitation to participate in a debate between the candidates vying for...
Any doubt that the South East St Mary by-election, one of three set for Monday, October 30, is just a by-election was dispelled yesterday when both major political parties, the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People's National...
Director of Elections Orrette Fisher played down his presence at yesterday's nomination day proceedings for the South East St Mary constituency as a sign of particular significance, even in light of the fact that similar activities took place in St...
Confident that he has done enough to convince residents of South East St Mary that he should be their next member of parliament, Dr Norman Dunn spent last week talking to constituents and getting a first-hand take on the issues that have stymied...
Located between Richmond and Cromwell Land, the farming district of Aleppo is a neglected section of the South East St Mary constituency, or so it would seem, if the poor road conditions are an accurate measure of its treatment by successive...
Supporters of the two doctors expected to be nominated tomorrow by the major political parties to contest a by-election in St Mary South East are high on confidence going into the October 30 poll.Last week, supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party's (...
St Mary:Mayor of Port Maria, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Richard Creary, has charged that saddled with a weak representative whose political naivety will prove to be his undoing, the People's National Party (PNP) has no chance of retaining the...
Lisa Hanna, the People’s National Party Member of Parliament for South East St Ann blazed a fire at a mass rally in Annotto Bay St Mary last night as the party officially introduced its candidate for the vacant South East St Mary seat, Dr...
It would appear that the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is not holding back on effort or expense to secure the South East St Mary constituency, judging from the turnout at a rally last night in Annotto Bat, St Mary. In addition to...
Jamaica Customs has launched a renewed thrust to get business operators involved in import/export to join the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) Programme, membership in which it says would enhance their trade functions. Companies which are able to...
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) is seeking answers from the Government about any recent, meaningful efforts to cut the staggering level of institutionalised red tape which, it claims, has created, and continues to feed, an environment in which...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMChristopher Serju
Director of Elections Orrette Fisher has rubbished claims of political bias levelled against him by Everald Warmington, member of parliament for South West St Catherine.Warmington, a member of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) team on the...
Lawmaker Everald Warmington on Tuesday accused Director of Elections Orrette Fisher of misleading the Constituency Boundaries Committee during its weekly meeting at Gordon House.In challenging the...
US Charge d'affaires Eric Khant on Friday challenged young entrepreneurs to rethink the notion that profit should be the sole or even the major objective of any successful business. Success in business, he told them, goes well beyond profit."As you...
For many Jamaicans, the United States Embassy has long been nothing more than the place where one applies for a visa to visit family and friends whether for vacation or permanent residency. But for emerging entrepreneurs, it can be much more...
Owners Pan Caribbean Sugar Company will take control of the Monymusk Sugar Factory in Clarendon, at least for the 2017-18 sugar crop, agriculture minister Karl Samuda said on Wednesday, but uncertainty about the fate of the facilities thereafter has...
The Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association (JMA) has given Karl Samuda, minister of industry, commerce, agriculture, and fisheries, a seven-day ultimatum during which he must retract a recent statement that some of its members continue to rob the...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMChristopher Serju
The introduction of fundamental changes to the regime on refined sugar importation for the retail trade announced by Karl Samuda, minister ofindustry, commerce, agriculture, and fisheries, on Wednesday, awaits his signature on a Ministerial Order...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMChristopher Serju
Dr Omar Davies, retired member of parliament for St Andrew Southern, on Wednesday reminded his former constituents of their obligation to take seriously the responsibility of educating their children."The opportunities which are being presented by...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) is looking to parliamentarians to lead by example during Saturday's clean-up of some 150 beaches across the island on International Coastal Clean-up (ICC) Day 2017.Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition...
Members of the Human Resource and Social Committee of Parliament yesterday unanimously rejected the Realignment of Boundaries report from the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (EOJ) on the grounds of inaccurate, contradictory and confusing information...
Mired in all the muck and grime littering the countryside is an opportunity for young, bright minds to come up with solutions to map and orchestrate the clean-up of Jamaica's growing garbage pollution, in an environmentally friendly, sustainable and...
