Former People's National Party (PNP) president Portia Simpson Miller yesterday greeted Comrades at the 80th anniversary conference, calling the party an organisation that has provided outstanding leadership for the country after eight decades."Our...
People's National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips yesterday promised that a future government formed by his party would oversee a social revolution for the education sector, to reverse the economic inequity ravaging the society that has...
As Jamaicans celebrate the success of students who have aced subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is also celebrating its good fortune. However, the association noted that...
As Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) continues its probe of the operations of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Energy, technocrats struggled to provide details about the $60-million verbal contract issued...
Despite years of talk by successive governments, the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), civil society groups, and individuals that civics - studies about the rights and duties of the citizenry - should be returned to the classroom, its return has...
"Verbal corruption" allowed the state-owned National Energy Solution Limited (NESol) to hire a private firm, Peak Energy Solutions Limited, and pay it millions of dollars for service rendered without a contract in place. That was the charge of Fitz...
The long-running police used-car saga involving the Government and O'Brien's International Car Rental and Sales has taken a new twist.Yesterday, Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) was told that the 66 cars that...
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson is convinced that the often-repeated call for a merger between the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) should be put to rest and never resurrected.Anderson told a...
The estrangement between the Registrar General's Department (RGD) and sections of the clergy over costs related to carrying out their duties as marriage officers began to thaw yesterday after a meeting between both parties.President of the Jamaica...
When Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew West Rural Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn asked the House of Representatives to make it easier for women to have safe and secure abortions, it was not to allow for frivolous decisions about life and death.Instead...
Debate on the Child Diversion Bill 2018, which seeks to implement measures to deal with wayward children who come into conflict with the law, opened in the Senate last Friday.Education and Information Minister Ruel Reid, in opening remarks,...
Drugs, critical to the treatment of long-term conditions such as hyperthyroidism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disease are among more than 50 that are in short supply in private pharmacies, sending patients into long queues at Drug Serv facilities.The...
Everald Warmington, who chairs the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Committee of Parliament, told yesterday's sitting that he refused to sign the committee's final report acknowledging press coverage of proceedings.Yesterday, before members...
The dispute over an 867-acres property in Little Bay, Westmoreland, is again heating up, with fears that it could become violent.Lawyers representing the owners of the property are again trying to evict persons who have been living there for years....
Caios Levy, a Jamaican who lives in Canada, is convinced that positive things are happening in Jamaica, despite the high crime rate and the widening economic gap between rich and poor.On one of his frequent trips to the island, Levy dropped in on a...
Everald Warmington, the state minister with responsibility for works in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and who chairs the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Committee of Parliament, yesterday unleashed a tirade against the RJRGLEANER...
Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter has his eyes on the movement of oil prices on the world market as a result of geopolitical factors. Oil prices have risen 17.7 per cent since January, and the upward trajectory is already causing worry about...
Vivienne Green Evans could not contain the itch of having her own business - and one involving roast breadfruit - given the demand for a piece of her mother's supply when she took it from Jamaica to the United States.Her mother would cut, carve and...
Junior doctors at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) have indicated that they will pursue a class-action suit against the Government regarding the unhealthy environment at the western Jamaica hospital.The incensed doctors informed the Jamaica...
Organisers of Expo Jamaica 2018 will unveil a village of emerging entrepreneurs in the Jamaica Emerging Manufacturers and Services (JEMS) village when the biennial show opens on Thursday.Among the gems that will be in the village are ganja and...
Strong Jamaican foods such as yam, green bananas and fried dumplings, along with stew chicken are favourites among Jamaicans students participating at the annual Penn Relays, held annually at Franklin Field Pennsylvania, United States.However, Team...
The Appeal Court yesterday slapped a restraining order on the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), telling it in a decision that it has no power to arrest and prosecute cops. INDECOM has maintained that under Section 20...
The vexed issue of the massive debt owed to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) was on Wednesday discussed by Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) amid members expressing displeasure over the darkness of roads...
The Jamaica Bar Association (JBA) was among three entities that made submissions to the Joint Select Committee of Parliament deliberating the Data Protection Bill of 2017, the Government's companion legislation to the National Identification System...
The Joint Select Committee of Parliament set up to review the proposed Data Protection Bill heard more submissions last week on ways to enhance data protection in Jamaica, and there was a proposal from the Broadcasting Commission, which wants that...
