Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that his administration will be moving quickly to rebuild the 46-year-old Papine-based Jamaica National Children’s Home, which was damaged by fire on Friday night. Six units fought the blaze, which...
Dean-Roy Bernard, the former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI), has come out swinging against the adverse findings of the auditor general (AG) into the operations of the ministry during his tenure. On...
Jamaica’s tried, tested and proven electoral system run by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) will be used to conduct the September 7 race for a new People’s National Party (PNP) president, its General Secretary Julian Robinson told The Sunday...
When the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa had killed thousands and caused severe social and economic disruption in the region a few years ago, two Jamaicans were already staring death in the...
Free tertiary education, one of the linchpin provisions of the People’s National Party (PNP) regime of the 1970s, will make a return under a PNP administration, said its leader, Dr Peter Phillips. The initial step will be the ‘first in the family...
Manchester Central Member of Parliament Peter Bunting, who is challenging for the leadership of the People’s National Party (PNP), will take centre stage at today’s official launch of his Rise United campaign at the Manchester High School...
A seven-point anti-crime plan – with heavy emphasis on intelligence, forensics, cybersecurity and anti-corruption, which will bring together the best minds to tackle Jamaica’s most debilitating problem – was on Thursday presented by Police...
Reverend Astor Carlyle, rector of Webster Memorial United Church in St Andrew, began his homily yesterday for the life of deceased lecturer and scholar Samuel Martin by chanting the lyrics of Buju Banton’s iconic single, Murderer. “Murderer, blood...
According to Peter Bunting, for him personally, it has been a politically painful three years since his party’s 2016 general election defeat. Hence, he was forced to respond to the call from frustrated Comrades desperate for change and...
Canada, Jamaica’s northern ally and trading partner, continues to spend millions of dollars to fund and co-sponsor various initiatives under the justice reform programme, disbursing just over CDN$1 million per year since 2009, through its Justice...
When the eighth Biennial Diaspora Conference opens today, some of the standout figures from previous editions who have spearheaded advocacy will be missing, signalling that the lobby movement is in transition and beckoning new leadership to fill...
The Westmoreland used-car dealer remained in hiding from police last week but a letter from the police to the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) linked him to lottery scamming, murders and gunrunning in the Westmoreland Police Division. Shawn Smith...
Representatives from at least 10 youth groups across Jamaica working in programmes to mitigate youth and domestic violence as well as human trafficking yesterday held a day-long seminar at the Courtyard by Marriott hotel in Kingston to coalesce...
One of a rare group of Labourite women handpicked by the late Edward Philip George Seaga to enter his personal and political inner circle for decades has labelled the “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity as “unforgettable”. For several years, Prudence...
Rampant sexual harassment of brand promoters who work in the entertainment industry – the majority of whom are women – has forced at least one company to take a bold step to protect them, and it is seeking industrywide consensus to developing a...
The Government is to disband the Audit Commission, an oversight body it created 13 years ago to monitor the performance of public-sector audit committees and make reports to the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. It is not clear whether...
Road crashes have forced the Government to spend billions of dollars on treatment annually, but attendant costs such as diagnostic services, hospital occupancy, physiotherapy and emotional trauma are taking a heavy toll on the country’s healthcare...
The mudslide of irregularities that has cascaded on to Jamaica’s scandal-laced oil refinery, Petrojam, since 2016 was triggered by a series of meddlesome interventions by senior executives, and former general manager Floyd Grindley’s short-...
The gut-wrenching tragedies that have hit families following the vicious deaths of some of the nation’s children have moved Cuban Ambassador Ines Fors Fernandez to urge the country to not only celebrate mothers, but especially children, today which...
Research commissioned by the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG) in March 2019 has concluded that between seven and 30 per cent of the population are believed to be lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender (LGBT), and a...
The discarded general manager of Petrojam, Floyd Grindley, is seeking $40 million from the state-owned oil refinery on the grounds of wrongful dismissal and reputational damage, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt. Sources say that Grindley’s letter to...
Entrepreneur extraordinaire. Gentleman. Sartorial general. Friend. Husband. Daddy. These were some of the adjectives used to describe the late Charles Alexander Moore, who was yesterday remembered by a packed Boulevard Baptist Church congregation...
Badly stung by two by-election losses in less than a year, which has reduced its numbers in the House of Representatives to 28 seats, the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) says that it is not about to roll over and play dead as it eyes...
Two senior literature critics have showered praise on author Marlon James who, along with cosmetics doyenne, Britain-born Pat McGrath, is one of two Jamaicans listed by TIME Magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world. The last...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has admitted that it has faced barriers to its efforts to vaccinate Jamaican girls with the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that aims to dramatically reduce vulnerability to cervical cancer in adulthood. A January...
