The Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament, which critically examines the Government’s current account and scrutinizes the operations of its agencies, may have held its last meeting under Chairman Mikael Phillips,...
The Court of Appeal has cleared the way for the eviction of several squatters and the demolition of residential and commercial buildings constructed on a contentious 850-acre seafront parcel of land in Little Bay and Brighton, Westmoreland. In a...
“I don’t believe that anyone can beat a Jamaican determined to succeed in any sports.” That’s the declaration from Crenston Boxhill, former president of the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF). And over the course of the nation’s 61 years of...
Hervé Berville is a 33-year-old Tutsi survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Exuding passion and confidence, he is French President Emmanuel Macron’s representative to the International Seabed Authority conference in Kingston. The published author...
He is thousands of miles away from his family and the next three Father’s Day will see him in Afghanistan until his current tour ends, but distance is no barrier in celebrating this Jamaican gem whose life’s passion is serving the poor and...
Over the next three days, Jamaica will host a high-level meeting of specially invited leaders and stakeholders, as the Caribbean region seeks to find solutions to the ongoing crisis in Haiti. Jamaica’s role in the process has been welcomed by...
Citing glaring inequities in the society arising from the public-sector compensation review undertaken by the Government, Mark Golding has promised that a future People’s National Party (PNP) government will evaluate the structure and take steps to...
A long-standing quarrel between two men from the rural agriculture and fishing district of Alligator Pond in Manchester has left taxpayers with a multimillion-dollar bill racked up at the Mandeville Regional Hospital and University Hospital of the...
It was a horrific case of violent trauma, the images stomach churning and unbelievable for the medical professionals when they first saw them. In fact, as one doctor puts it, they were stunned into silence. Yet after one of the first of its kind...
It’s a few days shy of a month since High Commissioner Joan Thomas Edwards moved to the continent of her ancestors, and three full weeks on the job as Jamaica’s top diplomat to serve her country’s interests there. As High Commissioner to the...
Gay rights activist, attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson, wants the Jamaican Government to adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final appellate jurisdiction, as punitive costs to access the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, which...
She smiled a lot during the hour-long interview with The Sunday Gleaner, but it would be a mistake not to take her seriously. Reverend Merlyn Hyde-Riley is a portrait of steely resolve, is arrow focused and has never questioned her call to...
Concerns are being raised that the results of a recent opinion poll showing the two main political parties in a statistical dead heat, are to be blamed for the uptick in what is deemed ‘unparliamentary behaviour’. Midway the Jamaica Labour Party’s...
From ‘dutty labourites’ of the 1960s to ‘chi chi man’ of the 1990s, and ‘damn fools’ and ‘fool fool’ in between, Jamaica’s politics has a storied history of ugly name calling. And an even uglier characterisation of opponents by individuals of the...
A day after the executive of the Jamaica Police Federation expressed fears via WhatsApp messages that it could be sued over the legitimacy of the vote taken last Thursday in which it was alleged that more than 600 bogus ‘yes’ votes were recorded,...
Dr Heather Ricketts has smashed the iron curtain of male dominance of the deanship in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, becoming the first female and its fifth dean. The eyes of all the men...
Results from its recently commissioned political poll are not quite favourable and its ratings among voters have been waning since Portia Simpson Miller stepped down as leader, but that has not dissuaded a flurry of applicants to the People’s...
The long-postponed local government polls seem headed for another postponement with the country’s electoral authority indicating that the budget needed to execute the elections, which are due by the end of next month, has not yet been approved by...
When Yola Gray-Baker learned of the financial scandal unfolding at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), where some 40 clients were reportedly defrauded of billions of dollars, she felt the same sick feeling of the 1990s financial saga, in which her...
Mecheck Willis is 72 years old and lives in a one-room dwelling on Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, the rent being paid by members of his church family. The meagre earnings from his street vending are not enough to sustain him. His sparse goods of...
Stung by the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) could not be forced to maintain the 60-year-old underground electricity system in the upper middle class community of Hope Pastures in St Andrew, the residents are now...
Without a doubt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s majestic run to win an unprecedented and possibly unmatched fifth World Athletics Championships gold medal in 2022 – 13 years after winning the first one in 2009 and at age 35 – should be unchallenged for...
She wakes up each day giving thanks for life and vows to make it better than the day before for the children of Jamaica, especially those in need of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). She is Rosalee Gage-Grey, chief executive...
Sheila Cottrell is a grieving mother with regular high blood pressure readings more than doubling what science deems normal. Her blood pressure skyrocketed when her son, Leroy Brown, aka Dave Roy, from Top Hill in Clarendon, vanished in October....
Jamaica-born British fraud examiner Karen Bailey is urging Jamaicans to step up their vigilance during the Christmas season when there tends to be a jump in fraudulent activities. “Protect your banking details. Make sure your credit and debit card...
