The Toll Authority of Jamaica is pushing for legislative authority to impose fines on pedestrians who encroach on toll roads and to penalise motorists for tailgating. An agency of the Ministry of Transport and Mining, the Authority also wants...
Former Clarendon Northern Member of Parliament (MP) Horace Dalley has apologised for not filing his statutory declarations with the Integrity Commission on time in keeping with provisions set out in the Integrity Commission Act. Dalley, who lost...
Head of the School of Education at The University of the West Indies, Mona, Dr Marcia Rainford, has expressed concern that the definition of a teacher in the Jamaica Teaching Council Act, 2022, eliminates most educators at the early childhood level...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that it is not Jamaica’s intention to create division among CARICOM states, arguing that the country’s decision to name Kamina Johnson Smith as a candidate for the post of Commonwealth secretary general should not...
Chairman of the joint select committee examining the Firearms Act, 2022, Dr Horace Chang, is opting for a legislative sprint in order to impose severe punishment of up to life sentences on gun-crime offenders. While acknowledging that the bill was...
Government Senator Charles Sinclair is batting for the holding of local government and general elections at the same time in order to channel scarce resources to help the country recover from the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. His...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has issued a stern warning to the Ministry of Education, declaring that it runs the risk of falling victim to fraud, unauthorised withdrawals, and significant bank errors because of its failure to prepare its...
Opposition Senator Damion Crawford is recommending that secondary schools concentrate primarily on five subjects as students return to the classrooms during the pandemic with the need to observe social-distancing guidelines. He said that if...
An arduous and sometimes raucous hours-long debate on the extension of states of public emergency (SOEs) ended with the Government side easily passing the measure with its superior majority, while the parliamentary Opposition slammed the Holness...
Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith has given the assurance that the proposed national identification card will not bear the addresses of Jamaicans who sign up for it. She made the disclosure after Opposition Senator...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has reported that a major importer of bunker fuel into Jamaica (BFO1) failed to declare a total of 50.08 million litres (315,268.67 barrels) of imported fuel on five shipments, with a cost, insurance and freight...
The Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has come in for increased scrutiny in the wake of a special audit detailing weaknesses in its procedures and accountability that resulted in three importers that operated private bonded warehouses owing more than $...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that concrete steps are being taken to remove the shield of lockdowns and restrictions that have been introduced since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, signalling that so-...
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has described the late O.D. Ramtallie as a public servant with a record of distinction during his six-year tenure as minister of construction and housing. At the same time, president of the People’s National...
Opposition spokesperson on the environment, Senator Sophia Fraser-Binns, says the time has come for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to decide whether decisions that will trigger increased economic growth should trump the preservation of the...
A social media post from a People’s National Party account dubbed “Parliament disabling persons with disabilities” has reportedly left the staff of the legislature fuming. President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson told his colleagues in the Upper...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert yesterday shut down responses to a string of questions posed by the parliamentary Opposition surrounding the Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) nearly half a billion-dollar...
The board of governors of Jamaica College will today hold a crucial meeting to deliberate on recommendations submitted by the Ministry of Education on how to deal with the controversial issue of extending special leave with full salary and benefits...
More than 45,000 students and 2,520 teachers at the primary level have been given the green light to return to face-to-face classes beginning November 8, but the institutions will have to adhere to a strict risk-based model, Prime Minister Andrew...
With the Ministry of Education unable to account for how $124 million in taxpayers’ money was spent by the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (JCTE), Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has recommended that Portfolio...
Two pieces of legislation aimed at giving prosecutors the right of appeal in limited circumstances were passed without amendment in the Upper House on Friday amid strong dissenting voices, with at least one lawmaker registering his objection to the...
In a policy shift, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has announced plans to revamp the Protective Services Division of the police force and to redeploy trained officers to the front line of crime fighting. In a statement to the House of...
In an unswerving defence of his stewardship, the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ chief accounting officer Dunstan Bryan declared on Wednesday that his officials and staff did not veer from the Government’s policy of administering the Pfizer...
In the face of withering criticism of the Ministry of Health & Wellness’ policy to expand the dispensing of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine beyond children to adults, Permanent Secretary Dunstan Byran is expected...
As the parliamentary Opposition joins a call from the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) for the central bank to rescind its one percentage-point increase in deposit interest rates, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles...
