BUSINESSMAN HUGH Croskery’s bid to settle a debt with a ‘$225 million’ St Ann villa is now the subject of a legal fight involving relatives who claim they should have been consulted first. The Supreme Court is to rule on July 7 whether the transfer...
THE GOVERNMENT reportedly considered “several options” in its own salary review, including pegging ministers’ salaries to the midpoint of the scale for permanent secretaries and not the highest amount which was ultimately used, multiple Holness...
THE JAMAICA Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), one of the country’s leading business groups, believes Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to decline his 214 per cent salary increase is meaningless, though the Private Sector...
A LAND surveyor has dismissed a claim by a property owner that drawings of the $800-million apartment complex being built by developer Juliet Holness’ company were needed to deliver a splintered title required by a sales agreement. Donovan...
DEVELOPER JULIET Holness has told a court she is facing a “failed” $800-million housing project in St Andrew if issues with an access road are not addressed in a high-stakes title dispute. “I cannot complete the development,” said the lawmaker,...
Juliet Holness, a director and majority shareholder of a real estate development company suing a St Andrew landowner, has rejected claims that she is a bully who destroyed private property in pursuit of their multimillion dollar investment. ...
Garfield Coke, the former financial adviser to sports star Usain Bolt, says there was “no red flag” in his due diligence before recommending that the former athlete invest millions of dollars in Stocks...
Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) was flagged in 2017 by staff of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) for a "culture of non-compliance and mismanagement of client funds"
The National Compliance and Regulatory Authority (NCRA) has admitted to keeping Industry Minister Aubyn Hill in the dark over a July 2022 report that identified dozens of producers of substandard building blocks. NCRA Chief Executive Officer Lorice...
The Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA) has finally complied with a disclosure order in a case involving a Digicel cell tower after what has been described as “a daring attempt by a government entity to violate the ruling of a court”....
Dynamic Lifestyle Studio says its lease with the owner of 7 Hillcrest Avenue was clear that a gym would operate there, a twist in the case brought against the operators by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC). The KSAMC applied...
The Dental Council of Jamaica says it is investigating the United States track record of dental surgeon Dr Michelle Charles. The council said it took the action after learning from The Sunday Gleaner that Charles was penalised in the US for...
On his 40th birthday and just 117 days after he was forced to resign in shame, Floyd Green, considered one of the brightest sparks in the Holness administration, was reappointed to the Cabinet. The two-term St Elizabeth South Western member of...
Officials from The University of the West Indies (UWI) are due to appear before the Jamaican Parliament next week amid news that Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the chancellor, Robert Bermudez, the ceremonial head of the...
The deputy head of planning and a surveyor at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) have been sent on leave with full pay as the authority faces more scrutiny over its approvals and enforcement of building permits. The Local...
There are more questions about negligence or possible corruption at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) and the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) following a court case that revealed that a developer built 32...
Pressure is mounting for Prime Minister Andrew Holness to remove Edward Gabbidon as chairman of the board of HEART/NSTA Trust because of the relationship between the multibillion-dollar training agency and Gabbidon’s company, SynCon Technologies...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has parted company with Captain Omaine Morgan, who has been linked to the controversial Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in St James. Army spokesman Lieutenant Nathan Curtis said the Defence...
The Government has withdrawn the national award it bestowed on popular pastor Merrick ‘Al’ Miller, bowing to public pressure over the decision amid the clergyman’s criminal convictions and his unrepentant attitude. The development comes as Prime...
Transport and mining ministry representatives were sidelined as the boards of the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary decided on the first part of a $450m investment in First Rock Capital Holdings (FRCH), meeting records have...
An official of Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) finance committee in March 2021 said he was not convinced that “proper due diligence” was done before the group pumped almost a half a billion dollars of taxpayers’ money in start-up First Rock...
Shanice Hawthorne telephoned a relative from her hospital bed at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James on August 29 complaining that her complexion had turned “black and blue” and she was “stifling” - signs she believed signalled her...
Jamaica has been jolted back into lockdown mode owing to a suffocating third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Andrew Holness administration continues to fend off deciding whether mandatory vaccination will have to be implemented. Some of the...
Four board members of the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) were dumped in July, weeks after a meeting they insisted on to get the position of president advertised and a forensic audit done of more than $300 million worth of...
Bruce Golding, chairman of First Rock Global Barbados, said it would have been “proper” for Fay Hutchinson to disclose to the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) her interests in First Rock Capital Holdings in which the state entity questionably...
