Published:Thursday | March 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Government is making a bold step by creating another avenue from which members of parliament (MP) can play a direct part indetermining the distribution of millions of dollars in resources to constituents, particularly farmers.Already, the 63 MPs...
Published:Thursday | March 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
There are conflicting signals about the Government's policy on a bauxite levy in the upcoming fiscal year, with the Minister of Transport and Mining, Mike Henry, yesterday shooting down claims by Finance and the Public Service Minister Audley Shaw...
Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw has suggested that the Bank of Jamaica used moral suasion by engaging players in the foreign exchange market to help bring about the current stability of the exchange rate.Shaw told members of...
Published:Wednesday | March 1, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, Ina Hunter says while investigation continue into allegations that convicted entertainer Vybz Kartel is illegally recording music in prison, correctional officers who fail polygraph tests in...
Published:Tuesday | February 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Opposition Spokesman on Energy Phillip Paulwell is urging the Government to reconsider its policy of waiving the payment of bauxite levy to bauxite firms operating in Jamaica, noting that this could deny communities well-needed support from that...
Published:Monday | February 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Portfolio ministers in the Andrew Holness administration will, beginning today, face a barrage of questions from members of the parliamentary Opposition as they drill down into the Estimates of Expenditure and estimates of revenue to get details...
Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
If the Andrew Holness administration has any concrete plans to raid the National Housing Trust (NHT) for budgetary support this year, it will run into a brick wall of opposition from the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA).President of the JMA...
Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Lamenting the increase in violent crimes and other unlawful activities in Jamaica, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) Metry Seaga is making an urgent call for a social partnership to fight crime.The no-nonsense JMA head said...
Published:Friday | February 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
They sat on a curb wall at the People's National Party (PNP) headquarters, Old Hope Road in St Andrew, last Wednesday, enjoying the pulsating reggae rhythms which energised person in the large crowd who waited patiently for the arrival of Dr Peter...
Published:Friday | February 10, 2017 | 5:12 PMEdmond Campbell
The Corruption Prevention Commission is reporting that for 2015, the University of Technology (UTech) recorded the highest percentage rate of delinquency in terms of employees who failed to file annual statutory declarations with the Corruption...
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The top brass of the People's National Party (PNP) yesterday gave strong support to Dr Peter Phillips as he submitted his nomination for the presidency of the party at the movement's headquarters on Old Hope Road in St Andrew.However, PNP President...
Published:Friday | February 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Opposition senator Lambert Brown has blasted the Government for dragging its feet with a promised crime plan to tackle the soaring murder rate in the country.In his contribution to the State of the Nation Debate in the Senate yesterday, Brown...
Published:Thursday | February 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Two principals of Seal Investments Company Limited, a construction firm with offices in Montego Bay, are in hot water with the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) as the oversight body has referred senior members of the company to both the...
Published:Tuesday | January 31, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Despite a grey area as to who will be the spokesman or the head of the new Integrity Commission, the House of Representatives yesterday passed the long-awaited Integrity Commission Act to establish a single anti-corruption body to investigate and...
Published:Monday | January 30, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
As debate on the vexed issue of exorbitant banking fees continues to attract widespread public attention, president of the Jamaica Bankers' Association, Nigel Holness, is rushing to the defence of the banking sector, saying its membership has not...
Published:Thursday | January 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
At least 34 member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) have given unwavering backing to Jamaica's health minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, as he made a compelling case for remedial action to stave off the extensive recruitment of...
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 6:14 PMEdmond Campbell
Arguing that the Government will not compromise on the issue of literacy as it relates to obtaining a driver's licence, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday made it clear that the State was prepared to provide remedial education to anyone who is...
Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2017 | 3:20 PMEdmond Campbell
Head of the Economic Growth Council (EGC) Michael Lee Chin says that he will be meeting with top Israeli businessmen in less than two months in an effort to woo substantial investments from that country to Jamaica.Lee Chin, who accompanied Prime...
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Landowners whose property taxes are in arrears for at least four years could have their land sold by the Government to recover the outstanding amounts. Finance and the Public Service Minister Audley Shaw yesterday tabled the Tax Collection (...
Published:Thursday | January 19, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The original objective of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast has been met, according to four inner-city young people, who pointed to the relative calm and the absence of wanton killings linked to partisan politics in recent times, a stark...
Published:Tuesday | January 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis said despite highlighting an overpayment of US$5,025 to a former senior officer ofthe Jamaica Liaison Service (JLS) in 2014, to date there is no evidence that the money has been repaid.The JLS administers the...
Published:Tuesday | January 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The Government will be spending at least $2.5 billion over the next two fiscal years to clean up the voters' list, removing hundreds of thousands of names that should not be on the register.Speaking in Parliament yesterday, Finance and Public...
Published:Friday | January 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
Declaring that there was urgent need to fight crime on all fronts, Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says that the Government will, in the 2017-2018 fiscal year, significantly boost the budget of the justice sector.In the current financial year, nearly...
Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMEdmond Campbell
The hotline to make reports of incidents of child abuse will now be working 24 hours a day, eight hours more than the previous 16 hours it operated. This move by the Government comes in the wake of increased reports of child abuse.The Office of the...
Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2017 | 7:05 PMEdmond Campbell
Members of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee will today comb through the First Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure which contains an additional $6.8 billion for public debt servicing and an extra $5.9 billion for the...
