OPINIONS CLASHED on Tuesday in Gordon House when members of a joint select committee deliberating on the Integrity Commission Act held to strong positions over whether the parliamentary group should adopt the Sierra Leone definition of corruption....
Published:Wednesday | July 29, 2015 | 6:41 PMEdmond Campbell
A JOINT select committee of Parliament reviewing the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) Act has accepted a proposal for the setting up of a non-executive review board for the oversight body, but there is a strong caution from at...
THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) will shortly be recommending legislative changes for the holding of general and local government elections on the same day.Chairman of the ECJ, Dorothy Pine-McLarty, told The Gleaner yesterday that Director...
Published:Wednesday | July 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies says the Government is moving to restructure the cash-strapped Port Security Corps that has racked up debts amounting to $25 million in rental costs owed to the Urban Development Corporation (UDC).Deputy...
Published:Thursday | July 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Tougher penalties have been recommended for public servants who fail to make annual declarations of their assets and liabilities under the proposed Integrity Commission Act.A joint select committee of Parliament deliberating the Integrity Commission...
Published:Thursday | July 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The proposed new Integrity Commission, which will have the task of investigating and prosecuting acts of corruption in the public sector, will be mute whenever it conducts any probe in relation to its mandate, until a report is tabled in Parliament....
Published:Wednesday | July 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
THE MINISTRY of Finance and Planning is now the majority shareholder of the loss-making Montego Bay Convention Centre, which is operated by the Urban Development Corpo-ration (UDC)."We have had discussion with the Ministry of Finance, TEF (Tourism...
AS THE crime wave continues to rock the country, with more than 600 murders since the start of the year, National Security Minister Peter Bunting has announced new policy measures aimed at strategically reducing the galloping murder rate.In a...
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has revealed that his only regret in the wake of the reform of the ganja law in Jamaica is that to date, the Government has not rolled out a public-education programme in schools to dissuade youngsters from the...
North West St Catherine Member of Parliament Robert Pickersgill has rubbished claims that his constituency has been underserved and neglected by the Government.In a letter to the editor on Monday, Oneil Hall, who claims to have knowledge about the...
HEAD OF the Water Resources Authority (WRA) Basil Fernandez has argued that doubling the size of the Mona Reservoir or desilting the Hermitage Dam to increase storage capacity, without a sustainable inflow of water, is not the answer to improving...
Beginning today, the National Water Commission (NWC) is rolling out a massive debt-forgiveness programme as it woos customers to clear at least half of their outstanding balances accumulated over a 180-day period with the promise of a debt write-off...
A near century-old building housing 19 girls at the Wortley Home at 193 Constant Spring Road in St Andrew was destroyed by fire yesterday, but no one was harmed.Four dorms at the facility for girls, which was founded in 1918, were destroyed after...
Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Onika Miller, has shot down claims by former chairman of the board of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Howard Mitchell, that he sent minutes of board meetings to her during his tenure...
Published:Wednesday | June 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
WHILE RECOGNISING the plight of public-sector workers who have foregone salary increases to keep the Government's economic programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) afloat, senior members of the clergy have cautioned against any action...
Some former members of the board of the Aabuthnott Gallimore High School in St Ann have blasted the chairman of the institution for what they say are his dictatorial style of leadership and disrespect showed to his colleagues, which have resulted in...
Many unsuspecting consumers purchase used vehicles fitted with winter (or snow) tyres not knowing of the grave dangers that they may face.Marlene Lambert is one of them. She bought a used motor car fitted with winter...
Published:Thursday | June 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Member of Parliament for North East St Andrew, Delroy Chuck, says he will not support the establishment of an oversight body for the Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) that will neuter the commission of Parliament.At the same time,...
Published:Wednesday | June 10, 2015 | 6:16 PMEdmond Campbell
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, describing his recent overseas trip to the United Kingdom (UK) and the Unites States (US) as a success, has urged the Portia Simpson Miller-led administration to explore ways to give members of the diaspora a...
AT LEAST one lawmaker who is a member of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Committee of Parliament has come out swinging against Opposition Leader Andrew Holness for accumulating $8.8 million in CDF funds over seven years before taking steps...
Immediate past chairman of the board of directors of Ardenne High School, the Reverend Lenworth Anglin, believes the disparity in academic performance between non-traditional and traditional high schools will begin to narrow as the former push to...
KENUTE HARE, Director of the Road Safety Unit in the Ministry of Transport, has the unenviable task of tracking road fatalities. As such, he is bombarded with a plethora of ghastly stories of pain and suffering experienced by motorists, passengers...
ATTORNEY GENERAL Patrick Atkinson says the Government did not take a hard-line approach when it took out an injunction from the Supreme Court Tuesday night, ordering protesting members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) back to work, but noted...
His strength has virtually left him and the clock appears to be ticking on the deteriorating health of 49-year-old Kenneth Myrie as he makes an impassioned plea to the health authorities at Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to save his life.Myrie says...
Published:Wednesday | May 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
WHILE ADMITTING that reporting the improper conduct of an employer or fellow employee in the public sector, to the relevant authorities, is not the easiest of tasks, Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has urged accountants and auditors to,...
