Ian Allen does not look a day older than the 37 years he has spent at The Gleaner Company, beginning as a photography clerk filing negatives in the library, before processing them in the era of black and white and later into a world of colour...
Professor Fritz Pinnock, who is battling criminal charges, resigned two months ago as president of the government-owned Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), but there has been no disclosure of whether there was a financial settlement. The...
The owners of a disputed 867-acre property in Little Bay and Brighton, Westmoreland, intend to press ahead with demolition plans in a bid to clear the land of squatters despite a protest that thwarted a planned exercise last week. Kathleen Eugster...
Five years after he promised to end the culture of privacy about the health status of elected representatives by releasing his own health records, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not honoured the commitment he made as opposition leader. Neither...
Some of the children of late former Prime Minister and People’s National Party (PNP) President Michael Norman Manley are fuming over what they said was no consultation with them about the plan to use his image and that of former Prime Minister and...
Education Minister Fayval Williams will meet the board of Jamaica College (JC) shortly following its rejection of the Doran Dixon-chaired Governance Committee of the National Council on Education (NCE) directive that Old Boys’ Association (OBA)...
Former People’s National Party (PNP) chairman Phillip Paulwell believes the Opposition will suffer consequences for its decision not to support the Government’s bid last November to extend states of emergency (SOEs) in seven police divisions...
The Code of Regulations, which adjudicates on all aspects of the education system in Jamaica, is in need of urgent legislative surgery, according to the Professor Orlando Patterson-led committee in its report to the Government. Without immediate...
WIDESPREAD SUPPORT for concept and ideals aside, the Government’s ‘mandatory’ seven-year secondary-school programme has put it on a collision course with stakeholders in the sector, with many already suggesting that a sixth-form pandemic has been...
Following The Blueprint Ministry’s (FTM) aficionado Andre Buchanan has hit out against the leadership of the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) Church in Jamaica, accusing the body of cosying up with the Pope – the head of the Roman Catholic Church – and...
Former Carmax used-car salesman Ian Lyn Muhammad has expressed shock and sadness that he is still flagged by the International Police (Interpol) as being wanted by Jamaican law-enforcement authorities. Lyn Muhammad said that the designation has its...
Embattled former Education Minister Ruel Reid has applied for an extension of special leave from Jamaica College until 2026. He had originally been seconded from the St Andrew high school for national duties in 2016.
Taxpayers are still financing multimillion-dollar salaries for the scandal-scarred Ruel Reid and Fritz Pinnock, the putative heads of Jamaica College (JC) and Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), respectively, who have gone on leave since 2019....
At 86 years old, Lester ‘Mike’ Henry is the oldest elected representative in the Lower House in Jamaica, and it is clear that he has no plans to leave Gordon House any time soon. The many-time Jamaica Labour Party member of parliament for Clarendon...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) elder statesman and former Cabinet minister Derrick Smith landed softly on a $7.5-million consultancy carpet in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) just as he retired from representational politics to usher in...
Bus and taxi fares are to be increased by 15 per cent across the island come Monday, August 16, the transport ministry announced last evening in the first adjustment to rates in eight years. Transport operators have been clamouring for an increase...
Audrey Smith Facey was known as the strongest of the three councillors Portia Simpson Miller had in her political arsenal in St Andrew South Western for nearly two decades, and she was widely expected to replace the member of parliament (MP) when...
Fresh from a political nightmare week the People’s National Party (PNP) wants to forget, the organisation begins a two-day meeting of its National Executive Council (NEC), its second highest decision-making body, with peace and consensus talks...
Haiti, the hemisphere’s poorest and most unstable state, is now under a state of emergency following the predawn assassination of President Jovenel Moise and the wounding of his wife, Martine-Marie, on Wednesday. There are now fears that its...
Education Minister Fayval Williams unveiled the Government’s national summer school and homework programme, which will seek to rein in learning loss from the pandemic which has shuttered schools worldwide with severe connectivity and equipment...
Two days after former foreign affairs minister A.J. Nicholson called out the country’s current chief diplomat Kamina Johnson Smith for allegedly fabricating harassment claims, emails apparently in support of her allegations against him were made...
Six months after he assumed leadership of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Director General Leslie Harrow has quit the relief organisation in apparent displeasure over interference by an overbearing local...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has taken flak for closing its investigation into the assault saga involving Westmoreland Central Member of Parliament George Wright. Matondo Mukulu, former acting public defender, has also criticised...
Twenty-twenty was the year of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but Jamaica was hit by a second virus that took a deadly aim at the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP). A political virus manufactured in a lab at 20 Belmont Road, the...
Unless warring factions of the People’s National Party (PNP) agree on an eleventh-hour compromise candidate, St Andrew South West Member of Parliament Angela Brown Burke could create political history if she emerges as its chairman on Sunday at the...
