ROBERT PICKERSGILL, the now retired former member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Western, who served seven unbroken terms as MP, believes it will be impossible to provide job descriptions for elected representatives. Job descriptions...
Outgoing Calabar High School principal Albert Corcho will take the reins at Malvern, St Elizabeth-based Bethlehem Moravian College (BMC) next academic year, The Gleaner can confirm. Corcho’s resignation has been accepted by the board of the Red...
Government and opposition members of parliament (MPs), up to late yesterday evening, had not received the salary increases announced by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke last month. As of 7:30 p.m. on June 1, a full week after all categories of...
When journalist Brian Walker received the Chevening Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in 2018 at the legendary London School of Economics (LSE), he wanted to do more than just return with a master’s degree, which he did and with a distinction...
Public sector workers who have accepted new pay scales under a reclassification exercise will receive promised monies, including retroactive sums, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke said on Tuesday as he closed the Budget...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has directed the HEART/NSTA Trust to remove all tuition requirements for courses up to associate degrees for all qualified Jamaicans, to give thousands an opportunity to get skills training in a variety of disciplines...
Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday announced that hundreds of low-skilled workers in public schools as well as garbage collection workers who have worked without benefits for years will now become pensionable as...
Despite the infusion of 50 new garbage trucks, the country’s garbage collection woes are likely to continue as it will take about $17b to keep Jamaica clean in the way that both the local government ministry and the National Solid Waste Management...
News that the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA) has permitted a company with majority Jamaican ownership to import 140 kilograms of cannabis (308.647 pounds) for research purposes has been met with widespread scepticism by players in the industry...
The revelation that some $6.5 billion budgeted for capital projects would not be spent this fiscal year did not sit well with members of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC), which received and approved the fourth...
Former Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Major General (ret’d) Stewart Saunders believes CARICOM has been too slow to intervene as gangs continue to tighten their grip on Haiti, which has been racked by political and social...
All government senators present at yesterday’s sitting of the Upper House voted in favour of the postponement of the local government elections while opposition senators objected to its extension in a near mirroring of proceedings of the House of...
Teachers brought into the homes of parents who homeschool their children will fall under the jurisdiction of the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill which will regulate the teaching profession and which is being debated by a joint select committee...
Legislators agreed that if parents are not the teachers, then anyone engaged to deliver lessons under homeschooling arrangements must be a trained teacher, who is registered and licensed, as the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching...
With no budgetary provision in fiscal year 2023-2024, and no time left to meet the end-of-February timeline, the Holness administration will today officially seek another postponement of local government elections. The Representation of the People...
Leonie Cummings, the 88-year-old mother of incarcerated Kingston don Donald ‘Zeeks’ Phipps, has vowed to fight for the Havendale property she co-owns with him and which is at the centre of a court battle with Esther Yvonne Sailsman, a babymother of...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) and the neighbouring University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) are both searching for new executive leaders of their respective Mona and Papine campuses. Professor Dale Webber, the UWI principal, may opt to...
The Integrity Commission (IC), the country’s anti-corruption body, has defended its operating procedure on when reports are tabled in the Parliament to which it answers. This follows a severe backlash after it tabled a report alleging actions that...
As a single bell tolled, animated children and boisterous political supporters offered a colourful contrast to the pomp and pageantry of the uniformed parade marking Tuesday’s ceremonial opening of Parliament. It was the first time since the...
With government expenditure ending the financial year at $998 billion, at least one economist is expecting that Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke will table the first trillion-dollar Budget today, when he presents the Estimates of Expenditure for...
His name was in the wrong order, and one word was out of sync with that of the late United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd president of that country. Ours was Delano Roosevelt...
Fifteen descendants of West African royal families that were destroyed when their ancestors were captured and enslaved in the Americas will visit Jamaica this month as guests of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Vice Chancellor...
Reeling from backlash since the February 1 implementation of the Road Traffic Act and Regulations, the Government made several concessions on Tuesday, including scrapping the requirement for children to be restrained in special seats in public...
Driving lesson fees are expected to rise as instructors become compliant with more stringent stipulations under the newly enforced Road Traffic Act. Among the new directives is for certified instructors to provide classroom space to teach...
British slave owners in Jamaica have been condemned for imposing a system of labour that worked Africans to an early death, stifling by 93 per cent the projected population growth eight years shy of Emancipation. That genocidal model, according to...
