OPPOSITION SPOKESPERSON on national security, Peter Bunting, has asserted that the police were unfairly treated in the recent public sector compensation restructuring exercise. “This needs to be fixed and if not done now, then a future PNP...
The independent state of Jamaica wasn’t the only gem that was born on August 6, 1962. So, too, was Topaz Kirlew - one of 224 native babies who share their birthday with Jamaica’s statehood. Her mother, Sylvia Kirlew, knew that her baby was...
The late Hyacinth Chen, matriarch of the family-owned Super Plus Food Stores supermarket chain and mother of billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin, has been lauded as “a voice of wisdom” and a pioneer who made an “inestimable contribution” to...
“I finished what my daughter started.” Those are the words of Wendy Miller, a grieving graduate of The University of the West Indies (UWI) who has dedicated her undergraduate degree to her late daughter. Her only child, Toni Haughton, died three...
On the diamond anniversary of Richard Sirgany’s victory in the Jamaica Grand Prix at Vernam Field, Clarendon, the 86-year-old national is enjoying life in the slow lane in the southwestern US state, New Mexico. The red Alfa Romeo he drove to...
Yielding to intense lobbying from teachers, governments, and UNICEF, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has made adjustments to this year’s examinations in the wake of COVID-19 displacement as well as volcanic activity in St Vincent....
A week after a former Minneapolis cop was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence Against People of African Descent has called for the defunding and demilitarisation of law...
The Caribbean has been urged by a professor of education to utilise the good effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting closure of schools. Director of the School of Education at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus,...
The Greg Christie-led Integrity Commission has served notice of its intention to monitor the Government’s COVID-19-related expenses and contract awards. This comes a day after the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) called...
Jamaicans and other English-speaking Caribbean people with specific high-value skills may benefit from a windfall of job opportunities in the United Kingdom as the Boris Johnson administration announced a policy shift that is likely to limit...
