Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
A seemingly irritated Leslie Campbell, member of parliament for St Catherine North East, yesterday walked out of a meeting in Gordon House after his submission that the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) was "erroneously"...
Published:Wednesday | October 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Declaring that the Jamaican dollar has depreciated by only 1.0 per cent for the 12-month period up to October 2 this year, Bank of Jamaica (BoJ) Governor Brian Wynter said that the central bank is reaping positive results from the Bank of Jamaica Foreign Exchange Intervention and Trading Tool...
Published:Monday | October 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
It appears that a number of government ministries and departments have refused to observe protocol by failing to fly the national flag.The Gleaner has been visiting a number of ministries and public bodies since last week and and observed several...
Published:Friday | September 29, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Pensions (Public Service) Act, 2017, which is intended to reform pension arrangements in the public sector, was passed yesterday by the Upper House with 62 amendments.This follows weeks of delays in completing the debate in the Senate, as...
Published:Thursday | September 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips yesterday unveiled a sizeable 19 portfolio positions in a Shadow Cabinet that saw some shifts from the previous council of spokespersons.In addition to the Shadow Cabinet, Phillips also named eight persons...
Published:Wednesday | September 27, 2017 | 5:44 PMEdmond Campbell
Director General of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA), Nari Williams Singh, says 147 flights were cancelled as a result of the lightning strike at its control tower in Kingston earlier this month. Williams Singh told members of...
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Jamaican Government has spent more than $50 million to airlift 200 Jamaicans living in Eastern Caribbean countries back home in the wake of the devastation caused to those islands by hurricanes Irma and Maria.However, there are several Jamaicans...
Published:Tuesday | September 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) is reporting that no action has been taken against 138 senior officers of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), despite reports being submitted to its leadership and the Police Service...
Published:Monday | September 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Despite a plethora of reports submitted by the Auditor General's Department to Parliament, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which has responsibility for reviewing such reports, has not had a sitting since November 1, 2016.The committee, chaired...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Following a stern warning from Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown against the abuse of state resources in St Mary South East in order to gain political mileage in a pending by-election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he only answers to...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the commissioners preparing a report on the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s will get no more extensions to complete their work.The Cabinet approved a three-month extension last week for the...
Published:Thursday | September 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Andrew Holness administration is working feverishly to table legislation in Parliament for the establishment of fixed election dates in Jamaica.Holness told journalists at his second quarterly press conference yesterday at Jamaica House that...
Published:Wednesday | September 20, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Children in Jamaica are among the most vulnerable groups affected by rising poverty levels and account for almost half of those living in poverty, according to the National Policy on Poverty, a White Paper tabled in Parliament on Tuesday. The...
Published:Tuesday | September 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that the Jamaican Government will not be able to provide a sovereign guarantee for the multimillion-US-dollar project to develop Government Circle, comprising the construction of a parliament building, a museum,...
Published:Tuesday | September 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Incensed by the red tape in the public sector that had delayed the approval by the Ministry of Finance of 17 additional posts for the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), Justice Minister Delroy Chuck yesterday directed a barrage of...
Published:Monday | September 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Contractor General Dirk Harrison has said that his office will be monitoring the more than $600-million road project in St Mary that was announced by the Andrew Holness administration last week.The value of the project includes the works component...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
President of the People's National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, is vowing that a future Government led by his party would change the present law to fix the date, within a specific time, for the holding of by-elections to fill vacancies in...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The People's National Party (PNP) says if it forms the next administration, it will create a legal path for the nearly 700,000 squatters to become homeowners.President of the PNP, Dr Peter Phillips, in his address to the party's 79th annual...
Published:Sunday | September 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
It is not clear whether it was intended to copy the phraseology 'America first' used by United States President Donald Trump, but Dr Peter Phillips yesterday coined the Jamaican equivalent, declaring that it should be "Jamaica first" when it comes...
Published:Thursday | September 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
"There was not a dry eye - everyone was crying," Errol Greene, chief executive officer of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), described how the staff at one of the largest departments at the health facility reacted to news yesterday that 40-year-old...
Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Jamaicans in the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos Islands and St Martin who have been severely impacted by the effects of Hurricane Irma and want to return home will be getting assistance from the Andrew Holness administration.Minister...
Published:Wednesday | September 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The cost to complete the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) report into the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s continues to spike, with the Government allocating more funds yesterday to pay the commissioners who have again asked...
Published:Monday | September 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
General Secretary of the People's National Party (PNP), Julian Robinson, said party president, Dr Peter Phillips, will, on Sunday, outline specific policy initiatives on crime and violence and other challenges facing the country, in the areas of...
Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said that the security forces have demonstrated that they do not have to abuse the rights of citizens in order to carry out an effective job in the first zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Mount Salem, St James.In...
Published:Tuesday | September 12, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Following a string of job offers, gifts and praises being heaped on him for his selfless, heroic act of saving a drowning boy, Tremayne Brown is to be given a national award.Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia 'Babsy' Grange...
