People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips has painted a dismal picture of the Andrew Holness-led Government’s stewardship of Jamaica since 2016, telling a Gleaner Editors’ Forum on Tuesday that despite the buoyant economy, Jamaica...
Dean-Roy Bernard, who served as permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education during the tenure of Ruel Reid, is asking the court to block the appointment Dr Grace McLean to his former post. Bernard – who was transferred from the ministry in...
The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts was on Wednesday asked to explain how the institution spent $4 million on “supper” and “taxi fare” in one financial year, giving an average of $364,000 to each of the 11 staffers working in...
Brascoe Lee, the man who co-founded the National Democratic Movement (NDM) with Bobby Marsh in 1995, died yesterday after a short illness. Lee, a former state minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and four-term member of parliament for South...
Attorney-at-law and member of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament Leslie Campbell yesterday referred to Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Principal Dr Nicholeen DeGrasse Johnson as the “...
Peter Bunting, the man who wants to take the reins as president of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) with his eyes set on Jamaica House, said the levels of alleged corruption, nepotism and cronyism which have engulfed a number of state...
Venezuelan oil subsidiary PDV Caribe is demanding that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) pay a minimum of US$50 million (J$6.5 billion) in core share value as compensation for the forcible takeover of its 49 per cent stake in the local refinery,...
The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) yesterday officially commissioned Jamaica’s, and the region’s, first interventional suite to diagnose and treat complex cardiac cases using minimally invasive surgeries and significantly reducing...
A Westmoreland car dealer is currently in hiding and fearing for his life in what he claims is a bizarre real-life movie that started filming the day he refused to pay $800,000 in extortion to a cop in the parish. Shawn Smith, who operates Car...
Director of Elections Glasspole Brown has given the green light to the two candidates of the April 4 East Portland by-election, telling The Gleaner yesterday that Member of Parliament Ann-Marie Vaz and the defeated Damion Crawford met the May 16...
After much public outcry, the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service (MOFPS) last Friday gave the all-clear for the Integrity Commission to advertise and interview individuals for positions within the body whose substantive posts were subsumed...
Integrity Commission member, retired Justice Seymour Panton, yesterday said that while the state body appreciates the country’s need for information on cases being probed, it has to adhere to rules of non-disclosure. Panton, a former president of...
More than a year after Contractor General Dirk Harrison’s office was subsumed into the National Integrity Commission, he is yet to get his instrument of appointment from Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and there are signs that the transparency...
The Holness administration, Minister without Portfolio Daryl Vaz, and the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) have been slammed by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) for their role in the sale of beach property to Puerto Caribe Properties...
Casting himself as the victim of character assassination, defeated People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for East Portland, Damion Crawford, was left devastated yesterday by a stinging 306-vote loss to Member of Parliament-elect Ann-Marie Vaz of...
Anti-corruption watchdog National Integrity Action (NIA) yesterday welcomed Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to strip Ruel Reid of his education, information and youth portfolios but urged law enforcers to speedily complete their...
With the RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll showing that 90 per cent of Jamaicans are in full support of having more soldiers carrying out daily policing, academic Dr Christopher Charles has suggested that the response was in keeping with...
Political commentator Dr Paul Ashley has argued that the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) should have taken its concern regarding the “unconstitutionality” of prolonged extensions of the states of emergency (SOE) to court, noting that it...
Despite cohabiting in decades-long, satisfying relationships, most women are still hoping to get a marriage proposal from their spouses and sealing the deal with a wedding ring, research from the mid-island Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has...
The non-disclosure agreement (NDA) between Petrojam and its former unqualified human resources manager, Yolande Ramharrack, was not only expensive hush money, but has shut down all anti-corruption investigations where her testimony was paramount,...
“Councillor adamant that persons demanding free houses in new development will be ignored.” Tension is running high in sections of the east central St Andrew community of Maxfield Park as residents square off over a housing development...
Colin Campbell, the former People's National Party (PNP) general secretary as well as former minister of information and development, says that the Jamaican Government must come clean on the Venezuelan issue in light of its recent decision to...
Despite concerns of a financial fallout from the ban on certain single-use plastic and styrofoam products, which takes effect next week, Government Senator Matthew Samuda said there is support from both political parties, as well as the business...
Aggressive, stroke-filled, and with pin-point batting and bowling accuracy are qualities the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) hopes to harvest and hone in the new Jamaican cricketer the association is trying to develop.These qualities, the...
Campus Registrar at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Camille Bell-Hutchinson, is confident that the institution will be approved for institutional re-accreditation despite the rigorous systems and standards of the University Council...
