The People’s National Party (PNP) has told its leadership contenders that their total spend for the September 7 polls must not exceed $20 million, but party insiders say that the two camps have ‘flown that coop’ well before the nominations. Party...
The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) is $90 million short of the funds it needs to conduct a sustained and effective campaign to raise awareness about traffic crashes and influence driver behaviour to stem the carnage on Jamaica’s streets. With...
He describes himself as the poor Chinese boy who grew up in rural Manchester, cooked dumplings with workmen and fished for crayfish in the river of Balaclava, St Elizabeth. Since then, he has scaled the heights to the pinnacle of production,...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday expressed disappointment that wage negotiations between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Government remain unresolved despite numerous meetings between the parties.Holness, speaking yesterday at...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Senator Kerensia Morrison yesterday called the party's leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness "strong Wi-Fi who connects to everybody" during her short address to the party's 75th annual conference, held at the National...
Since Jamaican yellow yam became associated with the success of the country's track and field athletes, especially retired sprinting legend Dr Usain Bolt, interest in the product has sky-rocketed resulting in extensive research currently under way...
Mellissa Edwards-Whyte would have celebrated her 46th birthday yesterday."Next week, she would have travelled overseas for her daughter's wedding. She was the mother to the children of other Crime Stop counsellors. She volunteered and could be...
Suzette (Camille) Buchanan, the former head of the Universal Service Fund (USF) - who was hired by the agency's board without the master's degree required for the managing director position stated in the advertisement of September 11, 2016 -...
Petrojam's embattled human resources manager, Yolande Ramharrack, is currently facing unspecified disciplinary action, Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriation Committee (PAAC) was told yesterday."Formal charges have been laid. The...
Years after it was first proposed, the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill - which will provide for the establishment of a governing body for the profession as well as a regime for the licensing and registration of all government-paid teachers - is now...
Jamaica's high crime rate is putting pressure on the island's sole state-operated forensic lab, the Institute of Forensic Science and Legal Medicine, and causing delays in some investigations, as the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is forced to...
While arguing that National Hero Norman Manley was not "pre-mature" in stating that the mission of his generation was to gain self-government for Jamaica, outspoken attorney and social advocate Dr Paul Ashley says the island's leaders have failed...
Westmoreland squatters occupying sections of an 867-acre property owned by John and Kathleen Eugster have lost the right to remain on the land following Friday's ruling by High Court Justice Cressencia Brown Byfield, who set aside a stay of...
President of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), David Wan, wants members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to open their borders to allow the free movement of labour across the region.Addressing a Gleaner Forum titled 'Jamaica Under Labour...
