Nearly one year after his sudden departure from his job as director of elections in the middle of a court fight for the non-renewal of his seven-year contract, Orette Fisher last week told The Sunday Gleaner he would never enter representational...
FAIRY HILL, Portland: A maddening road blitz is currently under way in the constituency of Portland Eastern, some starting even as a Sunday Gleaner team toured sections of the constituency, which will have a by-election on March 25. Nomination day...
Professional associations representing doctors, lawyers and business people say they would not support the muzzling of members who seek political office. Their comments come in the wake of revelation of a concept paper by the Ruel Reid-led Ministry...
Although electronic voting will not be used in the pending Portland East election, almost all election-day workers will be drawn from outside the parish to ease concerns about possible irregularities in the high-stakes constituency race. Director...
There is no sexual harassment policy governing Jamaica’s public-health institutions, including at the Caribbean’s premier teaching hospital and at the Ministry of Health, despite that sector employing thousands of workers performing medical and...
Sexual harassment is rampant throughout Jamaica’s public hospitals and clinics, and predators have been emboldened by a culture of impunity and a wall of silence, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt. No one is immune. Although the sample size of the non-...
It is reportedly taking two years for the Teachers Appeal Tribunal to hand down written judgments in cases brought by teachers who were suspended or dismissed by school boards, leaving several educators jobless and hopeless. Information reaching...
