Published:Wednesday | May 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Jamaica's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Aloun Assamba's tenure as a diplomat has been extended by another two years, and she is promising that focus will be on Jamaicans living illegally in that country.Assamba told The Gleaner...
Published:Wednesday | May 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
The Government is being urged to engage in a comprehensive land-redevelopment exercise in order to address unrelieved landlessness among Jamaicans.But lecturer at the University of the West Indies (UWI) and member of the National Reparations...
Published:Monday | May 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Government has raked in approximately US$231 million (J$26.6 billion) from its privatisation programme since it started in 2009, information obtained from the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) has revealed.The Milverton Reynolds-chaired DBJ revealed...
Published:Monday | May 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
The two major political parties have given undertakings that they will be pulling out all the stops to keep flags at bay, as looming national elections influence heightened political activities across the island."There was agreement between us, the...
Published:Sunday | May 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Professor Hopeton Dunn, has moved to clear the air on suggestions that he overstepped his authority last month when he issued a directive to cable operators to cease transmission of 19...
Published:Sunday | May 17, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
"Give us life-changing opportunities instead of life-losing battles."That was the appeal of some residents of Spanish Town, St Catherine, bruised by relentless gang...
With a chuckle, Veniesha Dennis describes herself as the 'Concrete Queen', and with good reason.She is solidly adroit as a a concrete sculptor - a craft that she has taken on as a career. On any given day while on the...
Published:Friday | May 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
The directive issued by the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) to cable television operators to cease transmission of approximately 20 channels by the end of the month is set to be overruled and reversed by the Office of the Prime Minister (...
Published:Wednesday | May 13, 2015 | 5:39 PMGary Spaulding
Resources employed to combat the Mavis Bank inferno are running at an all-time low, as the raging flames show no sign of retreating.Not only are the areas that are under coffee and other production being burnt into oblivion, but the fires have...
Published:Tuesday | May 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
MPs upset by 'flippant' treatment of boundary anomalies in some constituenciesSome parliamentary representatives served notice yesterday that they were perturbed by the "flippant" treatment of the ills of boundary anomalies marring some of Jamaica's...
Former beauty queen, Dr Saphire Longmore, who raised eyebrows by her sudden entry into the political arena nearly four years ago, has not ruled out another shot at representational politics.But the consultant psychiatrist may not necessarily make...
Published:Thursday | May 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
With the 2015 election out of the way in Britain, the outcome will not make an iota of tangible difference to Jamaica and the Caribbean region, as there will be no dramatic change in foreign policy from a state which has its eyes set on its...
Arthur Williams Jr, the second-generation politician out of the belly of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has made history once this year and the stage is set for another history-making move.With the vote on the bills to establish the Caribbean Court...
PRESIDENT of the Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association (JMDA) Dr Alfred Dawes has charged that medical doctors are being given 'scandal bags' instead of surgical aprons to do their work in operating theatres in the ailing public-health system that is...
Published:Monday | April 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Fuelled by the planned changing of gears in the Government's push to divest public assets, attention is being centred on the Petroleum Company of Jamaica Limited (PETCOM).At the same time, the Caymanas Track Limited (CTL) has signalled that it has...
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Jamaica is once again poised to take centre stage on the global platform with international focus aimed at the island.Foreign Affairs Minister A.J. Nicholson has confirmed that preparations have commenced for the 200th anniversary celebration of the...
Published:Wednesday | April 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Veteran public servant Dr Carlton Davis has once again been summoned to command the powerful National Housing Trust (NHT).Davis, who first navigated the NHT in the 1990s, is expected, as the first order of business, to wrestle with another...
Published:Tuesday | April 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
As election fever intensifies both internally and nationally, the People's National Party (PNP) has set up an islandwide sounding board.Activities at the Old Hope Road headquarters in St Andrew reached fever pitch yesterday, less than two days after...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
"Let's get to work" came the advice of United States President Barack Obama in response to impassioned entreaties from Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and CARICOM Chairman Perry Christie, prime minister of The Bahamas. In presentations...
As CARICOM leaders gathered this morning at the Regional Centre of the University of the West Indies (UWI) local police and soldiers were scanned and searched as they worked alongside the US team awaiting the arrival of President Barack Obama. The...
Published:Thursday | April 9, 2015 | 8:20 AMGary Spaulding
With a tight schedule today President of the United States Barack Obama, has a nation pregnant with expectations. After last night’s cultural expose at the Bob Marley Museum it is time for more serious business as the leader of the free...
Published:Tuesday | April 7, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
AFTER A week of frenetic activities, Jamaica's capital city of Kingston is well positioned to embrace the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.The Jamaican Government is proclaiming its readiness to host the leader of the free world,...
Published:Monday | April 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
As preparation heightens for the arrival of United States President Barack Obama tomorrow, crab vendors who had become a fixture at the southern section of National Heroes Circle have been dislocated.
Published:Monday | April 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
Former National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) board member RenÈe Anne Shirley has accused discarded board chairman Steve Ashley of "ego tripping" and has come out in defence of former Executive Director Jennifer Edwards.Shirley, the first...
Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
As he was at a rather rare politically flavoured gospel gala in St Catherine last night, besieged Opposition Leader Andrew Holness takes centre stage of a different nature at this morning's delayed meeting of opposition parliamentarians at the party...
