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Published:Friday | December 29, 2023 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A marketing manager whose National Commercial Bank (NCB) account is linked with her mother’s says over $2 million was swiped by cyber criminals and a further $122,000 bilked from her credit card after she read a text message she said she received...

Published:Thursday | December 28, 2023 | 12:13 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A letter sent to Audrey Marks, Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, by members of the diaspora giving notice of a countrywide protest, has stirred unease among other Jamaicans domiciled overseas who believe that its contents could harm the...

Published:Friday | December 22, 2023 | 7:56 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Voter apathy has jumped significantly over the last three months, with 35 per cent of Jamaicans now indicating that they do not intend to cast a ballot in the next general election. The figure represents a 14.4 percentage point increase since...

Published:Wednesday | December 20, 2023 | 12:13 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaica is headed towards “political doomsday”, one political scientist has concluded, after the majority of respondents in the latest Don Anderson poll indicated they did not vote in the 2020 general election. Fifty-eight per cent of Jamaicans...

Published:Tuesday | December 19, 2023 | 12:10 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Metry Seaga says Prime Minister Andrew Holness must honour his word of bringing to Parliament legislation for fixed election dates, after 73 per...

Published:Monday | December 18, 2023 | 12:10 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaicans say they must benefit personally or see the creation of more jobs if they are to participate in the next local government election constitutionally due in two months. That is according to the latest national survey conducted from...

Published:Saturday | December 16, 2023 | 12:09 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) on Friday defended Jamaica’s absence from Thursday’s meeting that was set up by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to ease regional tension...

Published:Friday | December 15, 2023 | 12:15 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Former Customs boss Danville Walker is lobbying the Government to invest in automated border-control systems, also known as eGates, at Jamaica’s ports, arguing that the move would increase efficiency with the processing of “thousands” of passengers...

Published:Wednesday | December 13, 2023 | 12:13 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A fifth National Water Commission (NWC) customer who received a “questionable” bill of close to $3 million has distressingly turned to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) after efforts to resolve the matter with the utility company broke down...

Published:Tuesday | December 12, 2023 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Dozens of pharmacy graduates awaiting their licensure to secure jobs have been left in limbo for months amid the absence of a Pharmacy Council, the body responsible for regulating the profession. More than 50 graduates who completed their one-year...

Published:Friday | December 8, 2023 | 12:10 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Security personnel at KingAlarm responded to three separate triggers at investment firm Stocks...

Published:Thursday | December 7, 2023 | 12:09 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Members of Parliament (MP) are advocating for a share of the parliamentary budget to go towards securing housing in the capital city for rural representatives who, they say, make great sacrifices to fulfil their duties to constituents and Jamaica....

Published:Wednesday | December 6, 2023 | 12:13 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Some senior advisers and executive assistants to government officials are fuming over the criteria imposed for salary increases under the public sector compensation review exercise, arguing that they are barred from benefiting until a renewal of...

Published:Monday | December 4, 2023 | 12:08 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A teacher who was pregnant and gave birth this past Saturday, has accused administrators at Grateful Hill Primary School of bungling the hiring process, which has resulted in her not being paid for two months. In an interview with The Gleaner on...

Published:Friday | December 1, 2023 | 12:14 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Cabinet Minister Aubyn Hill on Wednesday declared his support for Israel amid its ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Middle East, calling it independent of any Holness administration position or policy. Hill, the minister of industry, investment,...

Published:Thursday | November 30, 2023 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

THERE HAS been a 22-year delay in drafting “critical” regulations to support the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) Act, resulting in a failure in policy to mandate garbage separation. Added to that, Jamaica’s ban on single-use...

Published:Wednesday | November 29, 2023 | 12:12 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

The Integrity Commission (IC) has recommended that four Petrojam employees be charged for failing to file their 2019 statutory declarations. The agency’s director of corruption prosecution, Keisha Prince Kameka, concluded that the employees of the...

Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday used the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) 80th Anniversary Conference to set in motion “a partnership for productivity and peace”, noting that the last term and a half was centred on steadying the economic ship....

Published:Monday | November 27, 2023 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has declared firebrand councillor Venesha Phillips “a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) problem now” after she crossed the aisle Sunday, appearing on a platform for the ruling party. “We’ve parted ways with...

Published:Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 12:09 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday expressed sharp disapproval of the work undertaken by some public sector workers, stopping short of calling the group lethargic in their attitude towards service. Holness, who was speaking at the ground-...

Published:Saturday | November 25, 2023 | 12:06 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Noted constitutional lawyer Michael Hylton, KC, is disputing several claims made by the Privy Council’s Lord Robert Reed on keeping Jamaica’s appellate court within its purview, arguing that cost to access remains the single major barrier....

Published:Thursday | November 23, 2023 | 12:11 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A former education minister is backing St George’s College’s decision to suspend a fourth form student who recorded a video of a broken fan at the institution and posted it to social media, amid public protest over the seven-day punishment....

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:15 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang says Prime Minister Andrew Holness will use Sunday’s annual conference to launch his administration’s road map for wealth creation for the country and will ignore any distractions. Chang...

Published:Wednesday | November 22, 2023 | 12:15 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

The Jamaican Government has turned to oil-rich Saudi Arabia as a new international lending partner, with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that is to give the country access to loans. Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, minister of...

Published:Tuesday | November 21, 2023 | 12:09 AMKimone Francis/Senior Staff Reporter

A MEDICAL doctor whose Jacks Hill, St Andrew home was on Friday drenched with tonnes of debris from a suspended housing development project nearby says he is taking legal advice, amid radio silence from local authorities and the developer on the...

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