Published:Saturday | March 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The leadership of the local Seventh-day Adventist Church has vowed that they will not cover up instances where their members are involved in illegal activities, such as molesting children or abusing their spouses.For decades, the Christian community...
Published:Wednesday | March 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
There is growing disquiet among residents of Stephen Street in Allman Town, Kingston, after a popular fish shop owned by Roy Ellis was destroyed by a team of police personnel on Tuesday. Ellis told The Gleaner that he has been selling fried fish at...
Education and Information Minister Ruel Reid says an announcement will be made on the implementation of the Government's tax policy at the end of the two-day Cabinet retreat, March 31 to April 1."After the Cabinet retreat and we are clear how we are...
A negotiated salary increase to any category of worker is generally a welcome benefit to the individual, but The Gleaner has been informed that some public-sector workers earning a little less than $1.5 million are not in a hurry to get the...
Head of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA), O'Neil Grant, says the union is expecting the payment of the three per cent increase to the 25,000 civil servants who are members of the union, in April, based on an agreement reached with the...
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness asked Robert Montague to take on the arduous task of carrying the national security portfolio, the latter simply said no."It was a little bit of a shock, and I told him no and the team no," said Montague,...
Published:Thursday | March 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
In a rallying call for both sides of the political divide to work together for the good of Jamaica, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller yesterday signalled that the parliamentary opposition would carry out its job in a manner that contributed to...
Published:Thursday | March 10, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The first sitting of the new Parliament was not without humour, pleasantries, blunders, and verbal jabs directed by members at each other during yesterday's swearing-in ceremony.Newly appointed Minister of Industry, Commerce, and Agriculture Karl...
Published:Wednesday | March 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
When Prime Minister Andrew Holness takes his seat in the new Parliament today, he will have the enviable record of being the first head of government to have his wife sitting no farther than a glance behind him.But even before she enters the...
The tabling of the 2016-2017 Estimates of Expenditure will be slightly delayed as the new Andrew Holness-led administration is moving feverishly to craft a new Budget. “The first thing we have to do is to construct a budget and that’s...
Fayval Williams, the first-time member of parliament who sent the People's National Party's Andre Hylton packing in the February 25 general election, will spend much of her time at the Ministry of Finance ensuring that Jamaica's programme with the...
Audley Shaw, the man anointed by Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness to take charge of the Ministry of Finance, will have to bat boldly on a sticky wicket after receiving his instrument of office, according to economist Errol Gregory.At the same...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 6:08 PMEdmond Campbell
Young men who are supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) joined hands today at the Stony Hill Junior High School in St Andrew to assist former Assistant Commissioner of Police V.G. McDaniel, who uses a...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Determined to complete unfinished business for the people of St Andrew North Central, Karl Samuda yesterday easily repelled the challenge of the People's National Party's (PNP) Jacqueline O'Gilvie, as he aims to accomplish 40 years as the people's...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Financial analyst and business-woman-turned-politician Fayval Williams dug deep into the trenches of St Andrew Eastern and was yesterday rewarded with a narrow victory over AndrÈ Hylton, denying the former People's National Party (PNP) member of...
Published:Thursday | February 25, 2016 | 7:52 AMEdmond Campbell
As if there is a mission to accomplish, voters in the St Andrew West Rural this morning streamed into the Stony Hill Heart Academy with a sense of urgency to cast their ballots for their candidate of choice. St Andrew West Rural is one of the...
Published:Tuesday | February 23, 2016 | 4:30 PMEdmond Campbell
As voters prepare to go to the polls tomorrow to elect a new government, Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown is appealing to political representatives to encourage their supporters to allow electors to freely exercise their democratic rights...
Published:Sunday | February 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
A JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) member has served as member of parliament (MP) for East Central St James for 26 of the 39 years that the constituency has been in existence. Ed Bartlett, the sitting MP, has been there 13 of those years, but he is...
Published:Sunday | February 21, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
2011 GENERALELECTION RESULTCONSTITUENCY TOTALSFenton Ferguson - 8,018Patrece Charles Freeman - 7,545Voter turnout: 55.30 per cent of 28,364Ballots rejected: 84Despite calling himself the 'Five-star General', Dr Fenton Ferguson has obviously become...
Published:Friday | February 19, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Of the 14 times that electors in St Catherine North East voted for the candidates of their choice in general elections since 1944, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has registered 10 wins in its column,...
Published:Thursday | February 18, 2016 | 3:53 PMEdmond Campbell
"If I were to vote, I would be voting for better," says Dalton Harris, an entertainer and the 2010 winner of Digicel's 'Rising Stars' competition.The young entertainer says that the manner in which politicians are conducting themselves on the...
Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
A gang feud in the Central Kingston area yesterday spilled over on to George's Lane, in the vicinity of Duke Street, where gunmen shot a man, triggering frenzied screams from children who attend the St George's Girls' and Infant School.The barefaced...
Published:Tuesday | February 16, 2016 | 3:31 PMEdmond Campbell
A LEGAL firestorm, which was first ignited by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller who threatened a lawsuit against Leader of the Opposition Andrew Holness for alleged defamatory comments he made about her, appears to be spreading with intensity as...
Published:Monday | February 15, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
POLITICAL OMBUDSMAN Donna Parchment Brown says she is anxiously seeking to host a meeting with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Opposition Leader Andrew Holness to address a raft of issues including the current raging national debate about...
Published:Thursday | February 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Describing the decision by the People's National Party (PNP) not to participate in the national debates as a backward step for democracy, Professor Trevor Munroe, executive director of the National Integrity Action (NIA), says the concerns raised by...
