Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison has issued a rebuke to the Child Development Agency (CDA) for breaching children's rights and acting recklessly when its officers relocated 34 wards who were in the care of the Sunshine Child Care Facility...
Published:Tuesday | December 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
One female ward of the Sunshine Child Care Facility in St Catherine, who had resisted attempts by the Child Development Agency (CDA) to relocate her to another place of safety in Spanish Town, said she suffered the indignity of being sexually...
Published:Monday | December 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown says she is unhappy that the general secretaries of the two major political parties have, to date, failed to take steps to remove party flags in at least three Corporate Area communities, despite earlier...
Published:Thursday | December 3, 2015 | 5:41 PMEdmond Campbell
WHEN 31-YEAR-old Jermaine Damien Edwards, a talented singer, graphic artist, and "anointed man of God" left the United States on October 29 this year to visit Jamaica to collect his green card at the United States Embassy in Liguanea, he didn't have...
Published:Wednesday | December 2, 2015 | 6:23 PMEdmond Campbell
NEWLY APPOINTED Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown has sent a strong message to members of parliament and caretakers islandwide, as she moves swiftly to stem any further violent flare-ups in Newlands, Portmore, St Catherine, in what appears...
Published:Monday | November 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
THE ATTORNEY General's Chambers has seemingly sided with Commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Terrence Williams in concluding that a private citizen has the right to institute criminal proceedings without a fiat...
Published:Tuesday | December 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
MEDICAL LABORATORIES in Jamaica have been operating without a specific regulatory regime despite the passage of the Health Facilities (Medical Laboratories) Act and subsequent assent by the governor general 10 years ago.Auditor General Pamela Monroe...
Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
A COALITION of eight private-sector and civil-society groups is urging Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Opposition Leader Andrew Holness to give their unwavering commitment to embracing what it describes as core principles of good governance...
Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Opposition Senator Arthur Williams has slammed his colleague, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, for suggesting that neither he nor Opposition Leader Andrew Holness indicated to her that the signing of undated letters of resignation was a safeguard...
Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Attorney-at-law Arthur Williams is proposing that the Government hold a referendum to end the monarchy and ask Jamaicans to pronounce on three options in determining the country's final court of appeal.In his contribution yesterday to the debate on...
Published:Wednesday | November 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Glenmore Hinds, deputy commissioner of police in charge of crime, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) hasa cadre of more than 600 investigators who have been trained as forensic and scene of crime personnel and are ready to implement the...
Published:Tuesday | November 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller yesterday cracked the whip on factions within her People's National Party (PNP) that have been embroiled in a public quarrel over who should represent the party in North Trelawny in the upcoming general election....
Published:Monday | November 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Declaring that she stands ready to be an advocate, mediator and arbitrator for the safe conduct of Jamaica's elections, Donna Parchment Brown yesterday created history when she was sworn in as the first female political ombudsman and the fourth to...
Published:Wednesday | November 11, 2015 | 5:11 PMEdmond Campbell
THE JAMAICA Tourist Board (JTB) shelled out more than $4 billion over the three-year period 2012-2015 to marketing and public-relations service providers to promote Jamaica as a tourist destination, but Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis said the...
Published:Thursday | November 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Leader of Opposition Business in the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson has rejected the notion that Jamaica cannot set up its own final court of appeal.Opposition Leader Andrew Holness had proposed that his party would consider setting up a final court of...
Published:Tuesday | November 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) has once again been thrown into the spotlight with Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis declaring that the Government did not receive value for money in an almost $9-billion project the agency implemented.In an...
Published:Thursday | November 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The country will today have the opportunity to leaf through the report of an audit of the health sector which at first had been clouded in secrecy in the Ministry of Health, but will now be made available to the public.Yesterday, Prime Minister...
Published:Wednesday | October 28, 2015 | 4:40 PMEdmond Campbell
CHIEF MEDICAL Officer (CMO) in the Ministry of Health Dr Marion Bullock DuCasse has indicated that she has no intention of stepping aside in the wake of the dead babies scandal at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and the Cornwall...
Published:Wednesday | October 28, 2015 | 5:35 PMEdmond Campbell
THE UPPER House of Parliament issued a notice yesterday that debate on three bills for Jamaica to accede to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court will continue today.But even as Parliament makes plans to resume debate on the bills...
Published:Tuesday | October 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
President of the Senate Floyd Morris yesterday presented video evidence with the assistance of Kevin Williams, marshal to the Houses of Parliament, challenging claims by the general secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that Senator Marlene...
Published:Monday | October 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
JUSTICE MINISTER Senator Mark Golding has argued that embattled Opposition Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte failed to divulge in the Senate that the arrangements that led to the letter, purportedly written by the Privy Council, was facilitated by a law...
Published:Monday | October 26, 2015 | 7:05 PMEdmond Campbell
DEBATE ON three bills to establish the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica's final appellate court could end prematurely without further participation from Opposition senators, if the Senate President Floyd Morris and Government senators...
Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 6:32 PMEdmond Campbell
THE JAMAICA Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) is struggling to settle legal claims and costs amounting to nearly $1 billion.The managing director of the state-owned bus company, Colin Campbell, admitted on Wednesday that the company was in...
Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 5:41 PMEdmond Campbell
OPPOSITION SENATOR Marlene Malahoo Forte yesterday withstood Senate President Floyd Morris after being instructed to withdraw a controversial comment and was named by the president, but Justice Minister Senator Mark Golding begged for leniency,...
Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 5:40 PMEdmond Campbell
THE FINANCIAL affairs and operations of the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) have come under intense scrutiny by its parent ministry and Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis as well as the Office of the Contractor General.Yesterday, Opposition...
