Opposition Senator Gabriela Morris stirred controversy in the upper House on Friday, triggering a spirited response from government senators when she castigated Education Minister Fayval Williams for reportedly suggesting that a particular dress...
Members of a joint select committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council Act, 2022, have agreed with a recommendation from a key education stakeholder that a person masquerading as a teacher should face tougher penalties than a teacher who has...
The Upper House plugged a hole in the highly touted Firearms Prohibition and Restriction Act on Friday when Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley pointed out a provision in the proposed law that may have opened the door for a criminal to hand in...
Leader of opposition business in the Senate, Peter Bunting, described as disgraceful and shameful the alleged denial by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) of a personal gun permit to a policeman who has served in the Jamaica Constabulary Force...
MEMBER OF Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton has voiced support for plans by the Government to close down the Riverton City dump. Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Friday that the Government was moving to decommission the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that the most outstanding achievement of the nation in the last decade was the political consensus around sustainable fiscal management and debt. At the same time, Opposition Leader Mark Golding wants...
Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams has committed that the Government will begin the process of developing policy for the homeschooling sector in Jamaica. The pledge came Thursday as homeschooling parents appearing before a joint select...
Members of a joint select committee reviewing the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, placed the microscope Thursday on the various forms of online fraud, like those perpetrated against National Commercial Bank (NCB) customers in the last two weeks, to ensure...
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...
