Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell, says he does not expect a conflict of interest will arise when the new oversight body for the Office of the Utilities Regulations (OUR) becomes operational. Last week, the Parliament passed amendments to the OUR...
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla has launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding how an attorney-at-law was arrested inside the Supreme Court building. The investigation was prompted by a complaint from the Jamaican Bar Association. Association...
Delta Airlines says there are no reports of injuries arising from today’s fire on-board one of its planes at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James. Some 160 passengers and six crew members were on board. Responding to...
Justice Minister Senator Mark Golding says the government is not in a position to compensate persons who report for juror duty but are not empanelled. Senator Golding notes that this has been a long-held rule and there are no plans at this time to...
The Government is to bring forward the payment of outstanding sums owed to public sector nurses from the reclassification of the health sector. President of the Nurses’ Association of Jamaica (NAJ) Janet Farr says this was agreed at a meeting...
Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMJerome Reynolds
I Love Soca, was a 'soca-tastic' success. The popular cooler fete satisfied the bacchanal desires of those who were in need of a soca fix, to ease the long wait for Jamaica's carnival season.The beautiful waterfront, downtown, Kingston, was the site...
Director of Elections, Orrette Fisher, says there has been a significant increase in the number of persons seeking to get on to the new voter’s list. Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting an application. Fisher says preliminary figures have...
Chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Reverend Garnett Roper, says the driver involved in this morning’s bus crash in Barbican, St Andrew may have fallen asleep behind the wheel. Roper says the situation is still being...
More than 230 persons have been issued with traffic tickets today for breaches of the Road Traffic Act as the police step up their presence on the roads for the holiday period. Head of the Police Traffic Division, Senior Superintendent Calvin Allen...
Are you a regular vacationer as well as a soca lover and a carnival enthusiast and you are looking for the next destination for your travel bucket list? Then Hollywood Carnival in Los Angeles, California, is the place for you.The destination offers...
There are allegations this afternoon that the police may have been negligent in providing a quick response which could have saved the life of the policewoman who was shot dead last night. According to information reaching The Gleaner/Power 106 News...
Jamaican music and culture took over the Los Angeles Convention Centre, downtown Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, as Vegas and Gyptian proudly represented the black, green and gold.It was an afternoon into evening of high energy, flag waving and...
State Minister in the Technology Ministry, Julian Robinson, says there has been no damage to infrastructure or fallout as a result of a virus attack on government agencies. Robinson says at least three agencies received the malicious email. He says...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) says it has received an improved wage offer from the government. However, JTA president Doran Dixon has declined to give details on the new offer. Dixon says the JTA is waiting for a written offer from...
There are signs that public school teachers could soon intensify their protest and embark on a sick-out if the Government fails to improve on its offer for a salary increase. Since Tuesday, thousands of rank and file cops have been calling in sick...
A report to Cabinet from the National Logistics Initiative Council has raised concerns about the investors who are seeking to invest US$5 billion in Jamaica’s logistic hub project. In a statement, the Investment and Commerce Ministry said the...
The Manchester Health Department has closed Mandeville's largest food court over concerns about the risk being posed by a broken sewer main. Public health inspectors ordered the Reliance Centre Food Court closed this morning. The Medical...
Jamaica is to get an additional area code before the end of the year. Potential area codes have already been selected by the North American Numbering Plan Administrators. However, Technical Services Manager at the Office of Utilities...
Eight-hundred persons have so far converted to the pre-paid electricity service being offered by the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS). The service became public less than a month ago following its official launch on April 20. Head of Marketing...
Opposition spokesman on Local Government Desmond McKenzie says the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) should be given strict timelines for complying with the terms of its environmental permits to operate the Riverton City disposal...
Health Minister Dr Fenton Ferguson says the government will not implement flex work arrangements in the health sector until the task force set up to deliberate on the matter completes its work. Doctors in the public sector had claimed that the...
Opposition Member of Parliament Gregory Mair says he will be relentless in his push for the government to adopt a report to make amendments to the Access to Information Act. Mair made the declaration in parliament yesterday as he expressed...
The state-owned bus company, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), is looking to spread its wings into the travel and tours market as part of efforts to increase revenue for the ailing bus company.JUTC Managing Director Colin Campbell told The...
Former police commissioner Owen Ellington has confirmed that the United States Government applied the Leahy Amendment Act against Jamaica’s police arising from concerns about human rights abuses and extrajudicial killings. Ellington made the...
Former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington says he was never advised that a copy of the United States extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was found inside the strongman's Tivoli Gardens office. Ellington said he...
