Published:Sunday | May 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Miffed by what they consider the Government's "open-arms" policy towards foreigners in the construction industry, stakeholders last week told a Gleaner Editors' Forum that the talent required for "any major development" was present in Jamaica....
Published:Saturday | May 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Not for the first time, Minister of Industry, Commerce and Agri-culture Karl Samuda has clashed with the cash-rich Coconut Industry Board (CIB) over the entity's $5 billion worth of shares it holds in Seprod.The latest clash played out yesterday at...
Published:Friday | April 28, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Residents of Maryland, a rustic community in east rural St Andrew, came with high anticipation last Thursday to hear co-chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC) Keith Duncan explain elements of the Government's deal with the...
Published:Friday | April 21, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Persons, including journalists, who breachthe Criminal Justice (Administration) Act by taking pictures of prisoners in the precinct of a court in Jamaica could be fined the princely sum of $20 or a period not exceeding one month in prison.This is...
Published:Friday | April 14, 2017 | 1:57 PMErica Virtue
Local health officials have recorded almost 10,000 notifications of suspected cases of the Zika virus (ZIKV) in Jamaica between January 2016 and March 2017.Figures from the health ministry seen by The Sunday Gleaner show that from the notifications...
Published:Monday | April 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Despite the one-seat difference between the Government and Opposition in the Lower House of Parliament, as well as disagreements over the new revenue package and revised property tax system, new Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips said his party has...
Published:Saturday | April 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Twenty-eight of every 1,000 children in Westmoreland and St Ann have been victims of some form of abuse, making them the two parishes with the highest rates of reported child abuse across Jamaica. But child-protection agencies are not celebrating...
Published:Friday | April 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Local health officials are seeing children, some meretoddlers, turning up for emergency medical care at some of the island's hospitals with high levels of marijuana in their bloodstream.The startling disclosure was made last week be Dr Tracy Evans-...
Published:Friday | April 7, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Rafael Lee is not your ordinary toddler. The 17-month-old is extraordinarily au fait with technology, finding and playing games on his mother's smartphone and dancing to the music accompanying some of the games.Clearly adored by his parents Sherika...
Published:Tuesday | April 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Acting Police Commissioner Novelette Grant is spending her last two days in the seat of top cop for the island, but, the long-standing veteran cop could shortly create history by becoming the first female to be appointed to the position.Grant is...
Published:Monday | March 27, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
A standoff between the Ministry of Health minister and a lobbyist of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has forced the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) to defend its research methodology which provided data suggesting increase ganja use...
Published:Sunday | March 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Surrounded by former People's National Party (PNP) presidents and prime ministers P.J. Patterson and Portia Simpson Miller, and in front of an annual conference-size crowd, Peter David Phillips yesterday took the oath of office to the presidency of...
Published:Thursday | March 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
A 50 per cent jump in the number of children seeking assistance at public medical facilities for ganja-related illnesses in Jamaica since the weed was decriminalised in 2015, is causing worry for local health officials.With 70 per cent of the...
Published:Friday | March 24, 2017 | 11:31 AMErica Virtue
I expect a return to the PNP core values - Senator Floyd MorrisDr Phillips coming in at this time is important and interesting. He is somebody who is steeped in the ideology and philosophy of the People's National Party (PNP). And when you look at...
Published:Saturday | March 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
With two losses for leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) under his belt, Dr Peter David Phillips today fulfils his lifelong political dream of getting to the top of the 78-year-old party, now in opposition, but there is a warning from...
Published:Tuesday | March 21, 2017 | 7:12 PMErica Virtue
Delegates of the People's National Party (PNP) will stage a special conference on Sunday when thousands are expected to witness the affirmation of party President-designate Dr Peter Phillips.At a press conference yesterday to outline the plans,...
Published:Friday | March 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The Ministry of Health might have to pay as much as $2 million each month for its use of premises owned by the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists to relocate sections of the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH).But the bulk of that money...
Published:Saturday | March 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
With one of its founders facing criminal charges and opinions split over its methods, the recently formed advocacy group Tambourine Army is getting a baptism of fire, but its leading members remain defiant.Last week, members of the Tambourine Army...
Published:Thursday | March 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The management of the Jamaica Rifle Association (JRA) has shot down claims that they ignored a directive from then security minister, Dwight Nelson, that a machine which could be used to make bullets should have been stored at the Jamaica Defence...
Published:Friday | March 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
When consultant psychiatrist Dr Wendel Abel opened Ferdie's House - an adult day-care centre for persons with mental-health issues - he envisioned that the concept would one day become a model for the treatment of the mentally ill in Jamaica.Abel's...
Published:Saturday | March 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Almost one year after Finance Minister Audley Shaw dubbed it a "sweetheart deal", Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has slammed the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) for its handling of the 2014 sale of the downtown Kingston building which once...
Published:Thursday | March 2, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
Dwight Nelson, the former minister of national security under the Bruce Golding administration, is among 10 members of the Jamaica Rifle Association (JRA) suspended for..
Published:Saturday | March 4, 2017 | 4:11 PMErica Virtue
Harold Brady - the colourful and once-trusted legal lieutenant of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leaders Bruce Golding and Edward Seaga - is on a fast track to infamy as he has joined the ranks of members of the legal profession barred from practising...
Published:Friday | February 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
The People's National Party's (PNP) Andre Hylton, the former member of parliament for St Andrew Eastern, and councillor for the Papine division, Venesha Phillips, have applauded the University of the West Indies (UWI) for its decision to allow...
Published:Friday | February 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue
An untidy committee session of the Upper House yesterday marred what was an otherwise rare sitting of the Senate, where not a single senator opposed the bill to make way for the Caribbean Maritime Institute Act, to now be known as the Caribbean...
