Keith Darien, principal director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), on Friday served notice that investigations have commenced into the operations of at least six institutions operating in the financial sector that are not in...
Bustamante Hospital for Children yesterday got a significant boost to its eye-care diagnostics capacity with the donation of a binocular indirect ophthalmoscope by Eye Q Optical. Consultant ophthalmologist Dr Leighton Maddan explained that the...
WOMEN AND children are the primary target beneficiaries of a five-year Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) project which is being launched simultaneously in four other Caribbean territories – Dominica, Guyana, Saint Lucia, and Suriname...
Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew East Rural Juliet Holness has issued a call for her constituents to become environmental informants by bringing to the attention of the relevant authorities any activities which may contribute to global...
The amended Emergency Powers Act 2021 will go to the Senate for approval after passing muster in the House of Representatives on Tuesday despite Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s strong objections to the wording of a section of the legislation....
The 40-year-old Sandals Resorts International is looking to extend its footprints in the regional hospitality sector with investments planned for Curaçao in 2022 and St Vincent and the Grenadines the following year. The disclosure was made by...
MEMBER OF Parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Eastern Kerensia Morrison is finding out about the harsh realities of representational politics and the difficulties some of her constituents have in meeting some of the simple needs of life. She is...
TWO YEARS ago the world was talking about climate change being an exception but since then, the conversation has changed drastically. Speaking with The Gleaner last week Wednesday, the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, head of the...
COVID-19 infections and deaths have declined in most countries in North America although more hospitalisations are being seen in Canada’s distant provinces. The rate of COVID-19 infections is also on the decline in Central and South America with...
Individuals or organisations looking to host a fishing tournament, even a charity event, are required by law to apply to the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) for a permit. That permit will outline the terms and conditions under which the event...
His business place is located across from the traffic lights at the intersection of Chesterfield Drive and Pacific Boulevard in Seaview Gardens. It was for this reason that a concerned Almando Bailey was keeping an eye on the weather when The...
We’re not loafers! That was the impassioned defence by Greg Christie, executive director of the Integrity Commission, who has bristled at public perception that the corruption watchdog’s officials are living high off the hog doing nothing amid...
Member of Parliament for Trelawny Northern Tova Hamilton has embarked on the Herculean task of transforming her constituency from its “1890 state of decline to that of a 21st-century model constituency”. Since winning the seat in last September’s...
Sharing horrific anecdotes in an address to Parliament on Tuesday, State Minister Robert Morgan described child abuse as “one of the biggest threats to Jamaica today”. Morgan, whose portfolio responsibility in the Ministry of Education, Youth and...
Jamaica will be one of six select countries taking to the stage to showcase international best standards in areas that could bring the world closer to achieving the global goal of a net-zero future when the 2021 United Nations climate change...
WHEN THE Disabilities Act finally takes effect on February 14, 2022, following Wednesday’s passage of the Disabilities Regulation, 2021, Resolution in Gordon House, where the Houses of Representatives sit, could find itself on the wrong side of law...
There are concerns that a COVID-19-induced global shortage of glass bottles and jars could leave local companies which use these containers to package products for the local and export markets with a lot of produce but very little to put them in....
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Robert Morgan has blamed a packed legislative agenda for further delays in the long-awaited amendments to the Access to Information (ATI) Act. Speaking on the final day of Right...
IT HAS been a wake-up call for first-time Member of Parliament for Manchester Southern Robert Chin, who is quickly learning that while members of parliament have lots of responsibilities, they have very little authority or the requisite funding to...
The operations of local conglomerate GraceKennedy Limited are being negatively affected by the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic which has seen glass bottle supplies for its popular Tropical Rhythm brand of juices, which were traditional...
The COVID-19 pandemic and four consecutive weeks of three-day lockdowns it spawned are being blamed for the ‘full-for-empties’ policy being instituted by beermaker Red Stripe and which has left a number of businesses out of stock and struggling to...
The announcement that Audley Shaw, the self-styled ‘Man A Yaad’, has been handed the reins of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries again in the wake of yesterday’s resignation by Floyd Green, is being hailed as a strategic move by experts in...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is searching for a new leader of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) after Chief Executive Officer Peter Thompson was reportedly issued with an ultimatum to resign, be fired, or accept a...
A prominent trade union leader has expressed concern that the country’s COVID-19 vaccination programme is at serious risk of being derailed by conspiracy theorists who are drowning out the voices of reason. Jamaica is currently struggling to...
Popular Arnett Gardens community activist George Phang, who miraculously survived 19 bullets in 2003, was yesterday advised to consult his personal physician before taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Phang told The Gleaner that the advice was given...
