Professor Peter Figueroa, one of Jamaica’s leading epidemiologists, has warned that participants at an impromptu party at Olympic Way in the St Andrew West Central constituency represented by Prime Minister Andrew may have put themselves and others...
Professor Emerita Carolyn Cooper has expressed concern that senior citizens who opt to vote on election day may be at undue risk of contracting COVID-19 unless special lines are established for the aged. Cooper, a public commentator and Gleaner...
The Dalvey division in the St Thomas Eastern constituency is considered the forgotten section side of the parish, according to residents who admitted that they are suffering with very little economic stimulus and a significant decline in their...
Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown has given the assurance that her office remains fully operational and committed to carrying out its mandate, despite the fact that she has contracted the coronavirus. Parchment Brown told The Gleaner...
Political apathy is rife in St Thomas Eastern, a seat the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP’s) Dr Michelle Charles is seeking to wrest from the People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) self-styled ‘Six-Star General’, Dr Fenton Ferguson, who has held power since...
While most Jamaicans support the removal of Queen Elizabeth II as head of State, the country’s two main political parties are still bitterly divided over the issue. The incumbent Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is insisting that the matter is one for...
Most business operators canvassed in coronavirus high-risk communities in Kingston and St Andrew are increasingly worried about an anticipated fall-off in commerce when new curfew hours kick in this evening. The curfew measures, which will run from...
Coronavirus cases in the Americas have reached almost 11.5 million and over 400,000 deaths, an indication that the region continues to carry the heaviest burden of the coronavirus disease globally. With 55 per cent of the new cases reported in the...
Confidence is running high in the Jamaica Labour Party’s Franklin Witter’s camp in St Elizabeth South Eastern even as Dwaine Spencer, a medical doctor and younger brother of Kern Spencer, plots to wrest the seat from him for the People’s National...
Dr Peter Phillips isn’t too concerned that pollsters believe Andrew Holness is practising so much social distancing, Phillips might lose the September 3 general election. The opposition leader was flint-faced on Wednesday as he declared that he was...
The business community is warning that the Government’s failure to enforce the COVID-19 laws governing beach parties and other entertainment events could cost the country dearly, reversing the economic gains achieved since the easing of austerity...
A self-destructing palm tree that flowers once every 100 years and then dies is how the Nature Preservation Foundation website describes the century palm. However, during its final rites, which can take up to a year and a half to be completed, the...
Two of the presenters at Tuesday’s launch of a joint Jamaica Stock Exchange and International Development Bank project, ‘Innovating Social Sector Financing’, have said something is fundamentally wrong with the Jamaican society, citing as evidence...
The Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) has been urged to extend interest-free credit to students of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, to cover incremental movements in tuition fees caused by recalculations based on the greenback. Hundreds of...
This year’s cancellation of what would have been the 68th staging of the Denbigh Agricultural, Industrial and Food Show in Clarendon because of coronavirus restrictions has resulted in significant financial losses, the Jamaica’s main farming lobby...
The CEO of the Sugar Industry Association (SIA), George Callaghan, has fired back at the management of Worthy Park Estate in St Catherine over its claims that the growing cess paid to keep the SIA operational is a burden on stakeholders. Speaking...
The Method used to rehabilitate the Guava Ridge to Content Gap main road in East Rural St Andrew has set a new template for road development in Jamaica. St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament Juliet Holness told the official opening ceremony of...
St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament (MP) Juliet Holness is banking on her record of performance, especially in the many farming communities of her constituency, to convince the electorate to give her a second term in the House of...
Former Barbados Prime Minister Owen Seymour Arthur is being hailed for his unwavering commitment to regional integration with the recognition of his pivotal contribution to the formation of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). Arthur, 70...
As pressure increases over queries of nepotism related to his demand that government lands be given to his live-in partner, Lola Marshall-Williams, de facto Agriculture Minister J.C. Hutchinson declined to pronounce on whether he should step aside...
Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) Holdings has received a scathing rebuke from Hugh Johnson, president of the Small Business Association of Jamaica, who has called for the firing of the entire board after the handover of 2,400 acres of Holland Estate...
As the Jamaican economy slowly gets back on track in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hi-Pro, a division of the Jamaica Broilers Group, is investing over $23 million to provide assistance to small farmers. This will ensure the continuity of the...
I read and reread a copy of Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw’s contribution to the 2020 Sectoral Debate under the theme: ‘Securing opportunities ... stimulating sustainable growth for bigger, better, stronger...
JAMAICAN EXPORTERS have failed to take full advantage of the country’s trading relationship with Costa Rica. Jamaica has a duty-free trade agreement with the Central American country, the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA)...
More than a year after minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries Audley Shaw directed the auditor general to conduct an audit of the Sugar Transformation Unit (STU), work is yet to get under way, and there is no indication as to...
