Stories by Erica Virtue

Recently resigned Director of Elections Orette Fisher says he feels betrayed after submitting his resignation to Dorothy Pine McLarty, who leads the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ).Fisher yesterday told The Sunday Gleaner that there has been...

Militant teachers, by a massive margin, yesterday voted to reject the Government’s latest wage offer, and ordered their executive to return to the bargaining table. During a special conference at the Wolmer’s Boys...

The bad blood between petroleum marketing companies and the dealers has again bubbled to the surface with members of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) alleging that a climate of hostility and malice is marring the relationship and...

Uncertainty is clouding operations at the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) where Director of Elections Orette Fisher is in court fighting a decision by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) to send him packing.To compound the matter, Fisher is...

PersonS interested in becoming Jamaica's next commissioner of police have until February 21 to submit their applications to the Police Service Commission (PSC), with the selection expected to be made before the end of next month.The PSC yesterday...

For most of her journalism life, Janice Marjorie Budd held centre stage, telling riveting stories of people's lives.Yesterday, the story of her life was told, and it was one that described a true professional, a sister, a friend, a colleague, a good...

Hundreds of residents in communities in South Manchester are now seeing a ray of hope after the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) started rehabilitation work in the area. The residents had complained of frequent lengthy breaks in electricity...

When president of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica Everton Hannam chose Fly Jamaica Airline to take him to Guyana for his annual end-of-year vacation, he could not guess the ordeal he would face.For more than one week, Hannam was...

When electricity went off on Christmas Eve, thousands of residents of Resource, Companion, Red Gate, Grove Town, Cocoa Walk, Marlie Hill, and neighbouring communities in south Manchester were left in the dark and almost cut off from the rest of...

John Catley does his giving all year round, but there is a special feeling at Christmas for the many persons, especially women, whom he has helped to get asylum in the United Kingdom."Twelve or 13 years ago, I was working as company secretary to an...