THE POLITICAL directorate has raked in huge salary increases, with compensation to members of parliament (MPs) and Cabinet ministers surging past 200 per cent. Members of the legislature sat and listened intently yesterday as Finance and the Public...
OPPOSITION SENATOR Lambert Brown has chided the government for being lax in its administrative duties, which led to members of the Consumer Protection Tribunal serving for at least a year after the expiration of their tenure in contravention of the...
A DECISION by a joint select committee of Parliament reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill to remove a requirement for a teacher to surrender “every copy” of his or her licence within seven days of revocation has been met with strong...
HIGHLIGHTING “ALARMING” statistics of the deleterious effects of lifestyle diseases on Jamaicans, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says his ministry will roll out an initiative this year aimed at getting people to screen at least...
JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck is advising the Administrator General’s Department (AGD) to take steps to sell properties worth tens of billions of dollars tied up with the agency for years, owing to lingering disputes among beneficiaries. In his...
Financial analyst Dennis Chung has said that while interventions such as the $200-million welfare programme announced by Social Security Minister Karl Samuda on Wednesday are necessary to assist the poor, the bigger issue is that such schemes are...
With the non-fuel charge on the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) customers’ bills climbing by 25 per cent between 2016 and 2021, Opposition Spokesman on Energy Phillip Paulwell on Tuesday lamented that Jamaicans are being forced to dig deeper into...
THE MAIN perpetrators of murder and their victims fall in the age group 25 to 44, according to a recent analysis by the police. Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang revealed that last year 63 per cent of the agents of death fell into the...
Labour and Social Security Minister Karl Samuda says 85 per cent of the 25,000 security guards in Jamaica have signed new contracts with their employers in spite of concerns raised about the fresh agreements. At the same time, Opposition...
TWO SENIOR union leaders who sit on opposite sides of the parliamentary divide in the Upper House have closed ranks on a single issue to send a strong message to the ruling administration. Opposition Senator Lambert Brown and his Government...
ACTING LEADER of Opposition Business in the Senate, Donna Scott-Mottley, has indicated that if a concerted effort is not made to tackle the scourge of money laundering in Jamaica, the country’s democratic process could be hijacked by dirty money....
Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has called for an inquiry into the tabling of an Integrity Commission (IC) investigation report which referred Prime Minister Andrew Holness to the agency’s director of corruption prosecution for an alleged conflict of...
Some members of the Integrity Commission (IC) Oversight Committee on Thursday rushed to the defence of an employee of the anti-corruption body after controversial government lawmaker Everald Warmington accused him of being politically exposed. The...
Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has pushed back against a torrent of criticism slamming him for purportedly playing the race card when he referred to Opposition Leader Mark Golding as “Massa Mark” in Parliament last week. At...
Political commentator and attorney-at-law Dr Paul Ashley believes that Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke will today withdraw his controversial “Massa Mark” slur, which was aimed at Opposition Leader Mark Golding in Gordon...
House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert appears to be on a collision course with St Andrew South Western Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Angela Brown Burke as the latter faces possible sanction next week after telling a government minister to “shut...
Prospective homeowners who are contributors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) will, in a matter of months, be able to benefit from a 15 per cent increase in the loan limit offered by the agency. Effective July 1, 2023, the NHT will increase the...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the finance minister’s heralding of “no new taxes” in his opening Budget Debate presentation last week rang hollow, noting that over fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, the Government raked in an additional $...
Julian Robinson, the opposition spokesman on finance, has accused the Government of making the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) unattractive and unviable. He said that urgent action was needed to rescue the entity from crumbling. Making...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has urged the Government to revise the $580 weekly payment to beneficiaries under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), which he says can barely fund the nutritional needs...
The Government is taking steps to revitalise the second-sale used car market in Jamaica providing more options for consumers selling their vehicles. Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday announced proposed policy...
While conceding that critical public sector groups, including the police, teachers, and doctors, deserve more under the compensation restructuring exercise, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday told them plainly in...
With the point-to-point inflation rate for December 2022 closing at 9.4 per cent for the calendar year as reported by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), one category of low-income earners is urging Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to...
