Published:Wednesday | March 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
As Riverton City disposal site continues to smoulder, the people of the surrounding community could be in for the relief of a lifetime. The principals of an internationally known philanthropic organisation are hoping to persuade the Government to...
Published:Monday | March 23, 2015 | 6:38 PMGary Spaulding
After being absent from Sunday's meeting of the People's National Party (PNP) National Executive Council (NEC), Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is today expected to face one of the sternest tests of her political career.As she makes her...
Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
The three-year contract of Jennifer Edwards, the executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) has expired and will not be renewed.In a statement last night, board chairman, Steve Ashley, revealed that Edwards has been...
Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre understands that the political directorate and the board of the National Solid Waste Management of Authority (NSWMA) are divided over whether executive director, Jennifer Edwards, should be sacked over the...
Published:Tuesday | March 17, 2015 | 5:22 PMGary Spaulding
Armed with fuming fury and equipped with the aerial video footage of smoke raging from the burning Riverton City disposal site on its sixth day, potent business interests have led a 14-member alliance of Church, NGO and civic organisations to signal to the Government that ‘enough is enough’...
Published:Monday | March 16, 2015 | 4:26 PMGary Spaulding
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has vowed to dump the Riverton City disposal site into private hands if it secures another electoral victory, even as it scorched a rash of government personnel and agencies for their failure to thwart yet another...
Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2015 | 5:28 PMGary Spaulding
In its never-ending battle against deadly onslaughts, the Jamaica Cancer Society has its eyes set on saving no less than 10 per cent of the lives under attack from raging cancerous diseases."Ideally, we would want to to be in a position to screen 10...
Published:Wednesday | March 11, 2015 | 6:32 PMGary Spaulding
Fresh fury yesterday opened festering wounds in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as members wrangled over the decision by party leader Andrew Holness to engage former party member Abe Dabdoub on his legal team to fight his appeal against a...
Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 6:27 PMGary Spaulding
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen on Monday sounded a battle cry against corruption, but was quick to warn that that the fight is often bloody. Sir Patrick declared that he was...
Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 5:41 PMGary Spaulding
Veteran Opposition member Delroy Chuck has acknowledged that his uncharacteristic outburst at leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Holness, has been sparked by anger and disappointment. But as infuriated as Chuck admitted that he is, he...
Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 1:24 PMGary Spaulding
Jamaicans are not looking forward to inking their fingers on the same day at polling stations for their choice of members of parliament and parish councillor. Fresh studies have prompted researchers to emphasise an urgent need for the political...
Published:Sunday | March 8, 2015 | 7:16 PMGary Spaulding
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga is today scheduled to hand over his collection of documents amassed during more than 50 years in public life to the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona.Seaga is expected to present the documents, in the...
Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 11:24 AMGary Spaulding
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga has called for a reversal of what he has characterised as unbridled selfishness wrecking politics in the country.Seaga, the second leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), last week told The Sunday Gleaner last...
Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 4:29 PMGary Spaulding
United States Ambassador Luis G. Moreno has called on Jamaica to lower barriers to trade as he is banking on the doubling of trade between the two countries over the next decade."I call on my Jamaican partners to reduce tariff and non-tariff...
Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 7:43 PMGary Spaulding
Thieves are again running rampant, with high drama being played out in Bog Walk, St Catherine, early yesterday near the area where four men were gunned down five months ago as they transported payroll for China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).As...
Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2015 | 6:04 PMGary Spaulding
Jamaica was thrust into despair once again yesterday as the barbarism of some of its people was emphasised when another child became part of the chilling murder statistics.Her head almost ripped from her slender frame, 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson...
Published:Wednesday | February 25, 2015 | 8:28 PMGary Spaulding
Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Robert Montague yesterday launched a broadside on veteran member Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, as a move to muzzle party members went awry in the aftermath of the decision by its leader Andrew Holness to appeal a...
Published:Wednesday | February 11, 2015 | 8:11 PMGary Spaulding
It's headed for an unprecedented seven straight. That's what Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phillips yesterday told diplomats of the upcoming International Monetary Fund test.
Published:Tuesday | February 10, 2015 | 5:02 PMGary Spaulding
Yet another study has found that a sizeable portion of young Jamaicans can't wait to ditch the land of their birth for "greener pastures". A Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll has found that more than four out of every 10 Jam...
Published:Sunday | February 8, 2015 | 5:27 PMGary Spaulding
Longstanding Member of Parliament for South St. Andrew Dr Omar Davies is not given to fanfares in his honour. But on Saturday night, despite his “misgivings,” Davies, the tough, no nonsense negotiator, had no choice in the matter, with his wife by his side...
Published:Monday | February 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
A meeting of the parliamentary group of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is scheduled to be held today after a flurry of meetings yesterday, failed to suture a fresh gash in the already wounded organisation, inflicted by last Friday’s ru...
Published:Monday | February 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding
An amiable, athletic Denmark national, has taken the concept of globe-trotting to fascinating dimensions as he attempts to be the first human to travel by sea to every country in the world. Like Thor, the mythical God...
Published:Wednesday | February 4, 2015 | 2:24 PMGary Spaulding
Hampered by a shortage of funds, constitutional demands breathing down its neck and faced with increased election buzz, the Dorothy Pine McLarty-chaired Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) and the Election Office of Jamaica (EOJ) have set in motion a raft of long-overdue programmes to enhance the electoral processes.
