Published:Friday | June 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The landmark ruling by the United Kingdom-based Privy Council last week in favour of retired lecturer Dr Anthony Boufoy-Bastick against the University of the West Indies (UWI) has given a fillip to other former lecturers, including well-known...
Published:Thursday | June 4, 2015 | 10:29 AMErica Virtue
Mary Charlton loves Jamaica and has been coming to the island for years. Her love grew so strong that she made retirement plans to settle in the sunny isle on Jamaica's north coast with her family, including her dog. However, the Veterinary Division...
Published:Friday | May 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
At least 20 specially trained mechanics have left the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) since the start of the year for better paying jobs in Canada.Managing director of the JUTC, Colin Campbell, last week confirmed the high attrition rate among...
Published:Friday | May 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
As more agencies turn their searchlight on sexual abuse of the country's young girls, there is an increasingly loud call for more emphasis to be placed on boys who are victims of sexual abuse. According to Everton Hannam, chairman of the National...
Published:Friday | May 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Under increasing pressure from some People's National Party (PNP) supporters in her South East St Ann constituency, Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna is vowing not to give up."I will not be deterred in South East St Ann. The people here are part of my...
Published:Friday | May 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has admitted to a substantial write-off of money it advanced to the National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB) but says this was less than the $1 billion reported last week. Responding to a Sunday Gleaner article...
Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 1:49 PMErica Virtue
WITH LEGISLATION now in place to making it a non-criminal offence for individuals held with two ounces of ganja, the Child Development Agency (CDA) wants cases involving juveniles on remand for smoking a spliff to be revisited."I can't tell you how...
Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
As an increasing number of the nation's children come in conflict with the law, displaying signs of mental illness in addition to those suffering abuse, the Child Development Agency (CDA) is noting that the fast pace and frequency of reports have...
Published:Friday | May 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has written off more than $1 billion in loans to National People's Co-operative Bank (NPCB), which could lose its operating licence by August 5.The write-off by the DBJ is being maintained on the books of the...
Published:Saturday | May 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker candidate for St Ann North East, Othneil Lawrence, is relishing his return to the bosom of the party after last week's landslide victory in the selection contest.According to Lawrence, his estrangement from the...
Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Ignoring warnings from its technical team and even before it did an environmental impact assessment, the board of the National Housing Trust (NHT) approved the spending of $62.5 million to purchase property in St Mary owned by a company controlled...
Published:Saturday | May 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
They laid roses for the dead and marched determinedly for those missing and presumed dead.They celebrated children who are alive, and carried placards for the missing.They begged adults - some relatives - to stop abusing the children.They begged...
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Wanted for questioning by the Fraud Squad, Ian Lyn, the former director of Carmax Jamaica Limited, has broken his silence, declaring that he is not a thief, even as the cops say allegations of impropriety against the company he formerly ran has...
Published:Friday | April 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Five years after former government minister Dr Neville Gallimore started proceedings for the purchase of a property at the corner of Marcus Garvey Drive and Industrial Terrace, and 10 months after making the final payments of $142 million, he is yet...
Published:Saturday | April 11, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Brand Jamaica, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and her administration, and the people of Jamaica have been declared big winners from the recent visit of United States President Barack Obama.Political commentator, attorney-at-law Dr Paul Ashley...
Published:Saturday | April 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
A DORM warden employed to the HEART College of Hospitality Services, better known as the Runaway Bay HEART Academy, is now being sought by the police after students at the state-run institution were allegedly fleeced of close to a million dollars in...
Published:Thursday | March 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
An international body is urging the Jamaican Government to pay women for all 12 weeks of maternity leave to which they are entitled under the Maternity Leave Act of 1979. At present, the law requires employers to pay eight weeks of maternity leave,...
Published:Thursday | April 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Jamaican youngsters, particularly those in inner-city communities, are starting to lose hope at earlier ages as visions of a dismal future set it.Empirical data show that many have set their sights on migrating, but those who see no way...
Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Neither cash nor talk will move them. They are squatters, firmly planted on prime government lands in various parts of the island. Despite cash inducements by state agencies to some, they continue to pose a danger to life, property and the...
Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 6:53 PMErica Virtue
As athletics-crazy Jamaica begins its zoom on the 105th Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) Grace-Kennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships at the National Stadium today, one of the country's elite junior athletic coaches...
Published:Friday | March 20, 2015 | 1:38 PMErica Virtue
For more than 20 years, a little angel has walked among the residents of a section of Trench Town in south St Andrew carrying a message of peace and tolerance. Joy Matthews, known to almost everyone as 'Sharon' is obsessed with a desire for peace and...
Published:Friday | March 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The Ministry of Education, in its new policy on recruitment, has urged school principals not to use one size to measure all students' academic abilities as this could bar them from participating in the world's biggest junior athletics competition:...
Published:Monday | March 16, 2015 | 3:33 PMErica Virtue
A significant number of Jamaican men diagnosed with cancer are not only hiding the diagnosis from their spouses and other family members, but are also disappearing from the radar of doctors trying to help them.In other instances also, family members...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 8:31 AMErica Virtue
The Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) is home to some of the island's finest medical professionals, with the mostly female nurses as good as those anywhere else in the world -if not better. But many of the more than 100,000 persons who visit the...
Published:Saturday | March 7, 2015 | 11:10 AMErica Virtue
Despite a gag order issued by the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) to Comrades in St Ann South East, the battle over who should represent the party in the next general election is not cooling down. Last week, three councillors in the...
