The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has called for Jamaicans to wake up and take stock of the way the country is being governed, accusing the Andrew Holness administration of ruling by authoritarian arrogance. During a press conference at...
With significant advancements in the country’s electoral system, it would take massive collusion among electoral officers as well as the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) and opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) indoor and outdoor agents to...
A former Crown counsel, one of at least 40 to have left the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) in the last five years, has sided with former colleagues who withdrew their services from the court system yesterday. The attorney...
Days of deliberations between the five unions representing workers at the state-operated National Water Commission (NWC) and management have borne fruit with an agreement yesterday that has ended the threat of industrial action which could have...
THE FIVE unions representing workers at the National Water Commission (NWC), and the company’s management, have reached an agreement which has averted threats of industrial action in heat-parched Jamaica and especially the Corporate Area which is...
AS POLITICAL discontent continues to rage in the People’s National Party (PNP) camp in Westmoreland and in the constituency of Western Westmoreland, the three former PNP-elected councillors who sided with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to remove...
A PERCEIVED lack of response from the Government over outstanding salary issues resulting from the public-sector reclassification and compensation exercise will top the agenda at tomorrow’s meeting of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), and...
THE FAILURE by the National Water Commission (NWC) to implement the recommendations of a reclassification exercise done in 2010 is at the heart of the discontent between workers and management. This led to last week’s threat of industrial action by...
SHANIQUE ARMSTRONG, the woman who accused the Spanish Town Hospital of callous indifference when she was forced to deliver her baby unassisted at the facility in May 2021, has been vindicated in death, following the conclusion of an investigation...
Kenneth Russell’s skills, education, and experience as a former United Nations consultant have taken him to several countries of the world with education systems and outcomes similar to Jamaica. It is for these reasons that the local man has...
EVEN AS some teachers have vowed to withdraw from the project, the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY) has targeted nearly 4,000 students who failed the 2022 literacy and numeracy performance tasks examination in a revived national summer school...
Jamaica-born, Canadian billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin has dismissed in the strongest terms any suggestion that he is beginning a slow off-loading process of his majority share ownership in the National Commercial Bank (NCB) with a view to...
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...
