Jamaica is now on a “knife-edge”, according to Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson, following a legislative deadlock in the House of Representatives late last night, effectively putting a halt to the seven-police division states of emergency (SOEs...
Member of Parliament for St Catherine Eastern, Denise Daley, on Tuesday made an impassioned plea for Spanish Town, the capital of St Catherine, to be restored to some semblance of the grandeur it enjoyed during its reign as the capital of Spanish...
Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday called for an overhaul of Jamaica’s parliamentary system to move it away from the current dispensation of being a welfare channel for members of parliament to instead promote social and economic policies for the benefit...
Dr Peter Phillips on Tuesday called for an overhaul of Jamaica’s parliamentary system to move it away from the current dispensation of being a welfare channel for members of parliament to instead promote social and economic policies for the benefit...
Despite inking a wage agreement on behalf of the senior uniformed officers within the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Leslie Campbell made it clear that their acceptance of the four per cent wage increase offer should not be interpreted...
Jamaica Dairy Development Board (JDDB) Chairman Dr Derrick Deslandes has dismissed the traditional method of pasture-grazing cattle as an outdated and wasteful way of feeding. Speaking during Thursday’s launch of the National Livestock Genetic...
It seemed that whoever wrote the sign had made a huge blunder. “Vaccination warning!! Do not enter this premises if you are vaccinated!!! Please understand! No dis!,” it read. Certainly, they meant ‘unvaccinated’. After venturing inside to point...
The Government of Jamaica has increased its target for renewable energy by 2050 from 30 per cent to a very ambitious 50 per cent, Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Audley Shaw disclosed on Wednesday as he urged local operators to ride...
Consistent rainfall over at least three days had put a damper on things in Flagaman, Southfield and other neighbouring communities in St Elizabeth when The Gleaner visited recently, but farmer Dawn Ebanks insisted that this was just the usual...
Policymakers, over the years, have been operating at cross purposes by expanding the built environment at significant damage and cost to the environment, according to the executive director of the Mona GeoInfomatics Institute at The University of...
European Union (EU) Ambassador to Jamaica and Barbados, Malgorzata Wasilewska, has flagged the region’s overall poor Ease of Doing Business Index as one of two major deterrents to attracting private-sector business investments to the Caribbean. The...
“THE ENVIRONMENT is unforgiving!” That’s the statement by Executive Director of the Mona GeoInfomatics Institute at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, regarding the suddenness, intensity and ferocity of natural hazards...
Friday’s sitting of the Senate descended into disorder, confusion and consternation after President Tom Tavares-Finson refused to allow for an adjournment of the debate requested by opposition senators, backed by their colleague Dr Floyd Morris, on...
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith says she has been assured by the authorities in the United Kingdom (UK) that no member of the Windrush generation will be among the next group of deportees who are scheduled to...
Red Stripe recently unveiled a comprehensive employee multipurpose facility comprising a renovated canteen; an on-site sports bar equipped with an audio-visual room with LED screens and surround sound; and a multipurpose sports arena with a jogging...
The Emergency Powers (Amendment) Act 2021 was passed in the Senate on Friday without any amendments despite strong arguments against it by Leader of Opposition Business Peter Bunting and his colleague, Damion Crawford. Bunting argued that with the...
CLIMATE CHANGE is about a combination of weather-related activities such as drought, increased frequency of storms, landslides and intense rainfall, and the Mona GeoInformatics Institute (MGI) at The University of the West Indies has been using a...
Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester North Western, Mikael Phillips, on Thursday painted a daring and dangerous picture of residents using makeshift ziplines to cross the Troy River, in the wake of the collapse of the Troy Bridge in August,...
Climate Change Minister Pearnel Charles Jr. says that over the next two weeks, small island developing states such as Jamaica will be engaging global leaders in aggressive and very significant discussions around how developed and developing...
Junior Youth Minister Robert Morgan last Thursday served notice that the Government has started work on legislation to allow for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for adults who engage in predatory sexual assault against a vulnerable victim,...
Getting concrete commitments on climate financing backed by strong action from developed countries is a must for Caribbean countries participating in the United Nations Climate Conference of the Parties (COP26), being held in Glasgow, Scotland,...
Residents of Calabash Bay in St Elizabeth are growing increasingly anxious over the continued silence of the authorities as the beach slowly disappears, urging immediate action to halt – and, if possible, reverse – the steady shoreline erosion....
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday pressed developed countries to provide meaningful funding solutions for small island developing states, which continue to bear the brunt of the fallout from global warming and other negative impacts of...
Jamaica has welcomed the news that it is likely to benefit from a climate financing plan to be funded by developed countries and pursuing that will be one of its priority agenda items when the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties...
Member of Parliament for East Rural St Andrew Juliet Holness is boasting that an agricultural revolution is on in earnest in her constituency, built on the cultivation of winter vegetables, strawberries, Irish potatoes and a long-standing staple...
