Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley delivered a masterful lecture on regional resilience, unity, shared histories, and developmental goals in her keynote address marking the 100th anniversary of the birth former Prime Minister Michael Manley on...
Work is well advanced to restore Pratville Primary School in Manchester for the resumption of on-site classes in January 2025. The school was severely damaged by Hurricane Beryl in July, forcing students and teachers to relocate to temporary...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness came to yesterday’s 81st annual conference of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with a warehouse of giveaways, leaving most supporters with wide smiles as they heard of a coming reduction on electricity bills, $20,000 for...
Time has run out for the announcement of a by-election for the Morant Bay division of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, meaning there has been a breach of the 90-day extension received through Parliament in July. The extension, which The...
Shortly after Cuba was plunged into darkness this month, as its entire electricity system failed, sections of the country were severely impacted by the rains from Hurricane Oscar. These events marked the continued worsening of conditions for a...
In the blistering heat of yesterday, inside and outside the National Arena, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 86th Annual Conference provided political moments that could become talking points for days, some in support and others objecting. The...
The chair he occupied and the office he shared with his team of investigators and personal assistants in Kingston is now vacant as of midnight Saturday night, but retired Deputy Police Commissioner (DCP) Fitz Bailey’s presence looms large in the...
Cislyn Gregory readied her four grandchildren and headed to Cross Keys last Tuesday to take advantage of Shelly-Ann Richmond’s back-to-school treat, which was organised for children from the south Manchester district and surrounding areas. Gregory’...
Three critical stakeholders in education are raising concerns about the Government’s failure to consult with them about the latest plans to import teachers from Ghana and India. The concerns are being raised, even as the stakeholders accept that...
One of 59 Haitian orphans, a boy with severe hydrocephalus and who had surgery performed at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital (BCH) in May, is no longer in the custody and care of the Mustard Seed Communities (MSC), the facility’s chief executive...
In a desperate call to stakeholders in the education sector, and other interest groups, immediate past president of the Guidance Counsellors Association of Jamaica Angelica Dalrymple says urgent and radical interventions are needed to curb the...
If the Andrew Holness administration enacts legislation making Portmore a parish without direct consultation with its residents, such a law will be short-lived and will be overturned within 100 days of a People’s National Party (PNP) administration...
When The Gleaner on September 14, 2022 published an article titled, ‘There’s gold in them hills’, referencing the Canadian miners finding traces of gold and copper in their first drill hole in Bellas Gate, St Catherine, little did they know that a...
FOUR OF Jamaica’s minor political parties yesterday joined forces to form the Jamaica Unity Alliance (JUA), a movement on a mission to broaden the discourse around constitutional reform and the country’s intention to sever relationships with the...
Flames of orange lit the mid-morning sky from Collie Smith Drive in St Andrew South to the nomination centre on Lyndhurst Road, with People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding leading a throng of supporters and their two candidates for...
Despite the massive road-improvement programme benefiting the underdeveloped parish of St Thomas, Morant Bay Mayor Hubert Williams says the Government’s disregard for the residents and their livelihoods during the work process has caused...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters turned up in massive numbers for yesterday’s public session of the party’s 80th anniversary conference, to show support for the party ahead of looming local government elections which must be held on or before...
Winston Spaulding, the former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) minister of national security and justice who served in the Edward Seaga administration (1980-1986), was remembered in Parliament for his legal acumen and dedication to country following...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is blaming the education ministry’s failure to respond to requests for information for the eventual collapse of surcharge action against Dr Grace McLean. In October 2021, the Auditor General's Department (AuGD)...
CLAIMS BY the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that the Government has instituted a new audio system in Parliament to gag its members have been dismissed by Information Minister Robert Morgan. Morgan yesterday refuted the claims by the...
Nearly an hour into the start of the public session of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 85th annual conference, organisers were crestfallen, and many faces reflected worry at the small numbers in the arena, with more empty chairs than bodies....
The man who sparked controversy when he was released from chains by People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding during a constituency conference on Sunday is unrepentant about his role in the affair. Claude ‘Big Stone’ Sinclair instead...
THE POLITICAL fallout over the selection of Ian Hayles as the People’s National Party's (PNP) standard-bearer in Westmoreland Western has taken another turn as at least two former PNP, now Independent, councillors intend to join their Jamaica...
WHEN PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding addresses his party’s 85th annual conference this weekend, he will be fully aware of what is at stake. The occasion will also present for the PNP what is its largest mass gathering before...
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson is urging public officials to dial back the intense political rhetoric and character assassinations in the public space, slamming some utterances as “disgraceful”. In a release on Thursday, Patterson, who...
