The Jamaican Government is facing mounting pressure from one of the country’s most powerful private-sector groups for full disclosure of the details of funding for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid to oust Commonwealth...
A 27-year-old Jamaican man who travelled to Mexico on Monday but who was denied entry by immigration officers has determined that he was wrongfully detained and sent back to the island as the number of Jamaicans being rejected by the North American...
The General Legal Council (GLC) is being hauled over the coals over its “unconscionable” policy of withholding the practising certificates of senior lawyers who are said to be facing “extreme” challenges in completing its Continuing Legal...
The family of Donna-Lee Donaldson, the 24-year-old social media influencer who investigators believe has been murdered by her police boyfriend Constable Noel Maitland, is pleading with the accused to disclose where her body has been disposed of. “...
Asserting that Jamaica’s “biggest” failure since Independence is the education sector, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the nation’s future lies in the services industry. Golding said the opening up of the education sector in the 1960s...
Days before the nation marks its 60th anniversary of Independence, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has acknowledged the failure of successive administrations to fully advance Jamaica’s interests. “Politicians have their fair share of blame...
The lawsuit filed by Fitz Jackson against Scotiabank over cheque-cashing fees could result in a drop in campaign contributions from financial institutions to prospective candidates of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), former General...
More than a decade since gangsters challenged the security forces in defence of strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called the hiring of United States lobbyists to circumvent the extradition process his “...
Excelsior Community College (ECC) is facing the threat of a lawsuit following claims from several final-year nursing students that senior administrators have sabotaged their prospects of completing the Bachelor of Science nursing programme. The...
The Joint Select Committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill has been forced to seek advice from the Attorney General’s Chambers after concerns were raised about how the term ‘child’ was defined. The bill defines a child as a person who...
Financial investigators are beginning to untangle assets linked to the four men who were taken into custody during simultaneous anti-narcotics law enforcement operations in the Corporate Area and St James on Wednesday. The predawn raids carried...
The chilling discovery of the bodies of four men near Tivoli Gardens on Tuesday has deepened the wounds of Francine Tomlinson, whose 17-year-old son Omario Williams is believed to have met his demise under similar circumstances. Omario has been...
Leading motorsport driver Doug Gore has said that Sunday’s deadly drag-racing event at Vernamfield in Clarendon may not have been triggered by oil spill residue but could be linked to track preparation and the power of the car. Gore said that the...
Senior executives of the country’s monopoly power distributor have downplayed potential earnings from the installation of electric-vehicle charging stations across Jamaica, noting instead that it is a “bullish” investment to bring down the cost of...
Stung by the backlash it has received for closing seven of its branches islandwide, the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) said its decision was rooted in a desire to serve customers by First World standards. Vernon Douglas, chief financial officer of...
Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) senior executive Blaine Jarrett has contradicted claims by councillors in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) that the company has failed to repair hundreds of broken street lights across...
Months after a Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) contractor died after being electrocuted in Trench Town, the power company is reporting that protocols were breached in the execution of his duties. The revelation was made during Thursday’s...
Retired Justice Seymour Panton has shot down suggestions from former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting that he had a conflict of interest involving the Integrity Commission’s (IC) special report on the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA)...
As news of the assassination of modern Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reverberated around the world, unspoken grief consumed millions in the East Asian country, just over six decades after the famous killing of Inejiro Asanuma,...
Members of the joint select committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill on Thursday struggled to find consensus on a recommendation by the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) to determine how complaints against educators are handled...
Lawmakers have pushed back against an Integrity Commission recommendation for legislative amendments to the 2017 Integrity Commission Act to include additional declaration of their assets, calling it “invasive and inappropriate”. They have also...
The business community in St Catherine has criticised the Government’s decision not to seek an extension of the state of emergency (SOE), challenging that the 14-day respite is not enough to repel criminals wreaking havoc in the Old Capital....
Concessionaires of Highway 2000 have said that they will not defer this year’s rate increases after losing millions of dollars in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Toll Authority of Jamaica CEO Lerone Laing made the disclosure on...
The Government is maintaining that the country received value for money despite Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed quest to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as the Commonwealth secretary general. It is not...
One of the country’s most senior diplomats has pinned Kamina Johnson Smith’s loss in her bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general (SG) on an about-turn by some African nations, allowing Baroness Patricia Scotland to continue her mandate...
