Jamaican Jennifer Lester, who wields management power at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said the pandemic sweeping the world is unprecedented and there is no playbook to predict or determine the devastating tentacles of the disease, which...
Before Jamaica gets its shipment of COVID-19 vaccines next year, Cuba could well inoculate half of its 11 million citizens against the virus which has crippled global economies, trade and travel for much of 2020, leaving behind a staggering death...
Trading in the customary black and white professional attire and ditching the legal gown bag she has swung over her shoulders for more than 30 years as she headed to court, Valerie Neita Robertson, QC, walked with purpose up Nelson Road in Buff Bay...
When 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai was nearly mortally wounded in 2012 – shot in the head by the Taliban in Pakistan for defying the group’s decree that girls should not be educated – the country’s inhumane treatment of women and girls captivated...
Pearnel Charles Jr is anticipating being sworn in to Parliament by his father, House Speaker Pearnel Charles Sr, following what he expects to be a successful outcome for him of tomorrow’s by-election in South East Clarendon, that will cost...
Four years after he led the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to the thinnest electoral majority in the country’s political history, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has significantly improved his national standing and is now being viewed as “the country’s...
Big men are not supposed to cry but Pearnel Charles Sr came close last Wednesday, hours after his son and namesake was nominated as the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) candidate for Clarendon South East ahead of the March 2 by-election. Barring a yet-...
After initial debushing work to clear brush and cut down trees parallel to the Vernamfield aerodrome in Clarendon, residents supporting the development are now disappointed that “talk is the only thing happening”. Massive trees which flanked the...
United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will arrive in Jamaica on Tuesday for a two-day working visit with Jamaican government officials, the third US holder of that office to do so in eight years. Pompeo is coming to Jamaica in 2020,...
