The Government may shelve, for the immediate future, the full rehabilitation of the Junction main road in St Mary, four years after Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced a $600-million project to remedy the problem-plagued thoroughfare. Chief...
The absence of adequate legislation and limited cooperation from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) are hampering efforts by the police to clamp down on electricity thieves, a senior lawman has argued. The contentious matter, which has...
Antoinette Rochester spent eight days at Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) waiting for a bed to deliver her baby girl. By the time she eventually got one, it was too late. The infant died before labour was fully induced, sending Rochester, who had...
The 2019 sexual assault case involving recording artiste Richie Stephens came to a close after the police in Australia concluded that there was insufficient evidence to proceed, though the findings of a rape kit were never analysed. The revelation...
Australian authorities say a criminal investigation that was opened after Jamaica’s music ambassador Richie Stephens was accused of sexual abuse in 2019 is closed, despite an insistence by alleged victim Elaine Lim that she was raped by the reggae...
The suspension of face-to-face classes in the advent of the coronavirus pandemic has cost the Government a whopping $3.3 billion for the procurement of electronic devices for online classes, Technology Minister Daryl Vaz reported on Tuesday....
Accusing the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) of disconnecting the electricity of paying customers to combat thievery, Opposition Member of Parliament for St Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson is calling for the Government’s intervention in...
In the wake of the flagging of Cabinet Minister Daryl Vaz’s United States visa with a substance trafficking marker, former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has criticised Washington for weaponising travel documents for political ends. Vaz, who...
One gas station operator is sending consumers deeper into their pockets during peak hours each day, hiking the prices of gasolene and automotive diesel by as much as 16 per cent. The Half-Way Tree Road-based Total service station, owned and...
When Commodore Antonette Weymyss Gorman takes the ship’s wheel of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) in January, she will bear the hopes of a generation of women hopeful that the new chief of defence staff (CDS) will chart a sea change in the army’s...
The slump in favourability of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has been blamed on their inability to rally their bases, seasoned politicians have said. While the JLP continues to hold a...
THE REGISTRAR General’s Department (RGD) will cease to exist as an executive agency, once the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) becomes operational. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck made the disclosure in Parliament on Tuesday,...
First-time Member of Parliament (MP) Rhoda Moy Crawford used her state of the constituency address on Tuesday to deliver a stinging rebuke of government agencies, criticising the red tape that she says has hindered work in her Manchester Central...
The People’s National Party (PNP) continues to sink deeper into the political wilderness, taking a severe hit to its positive performance rating over a one-year period. An RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don Anderson poll showed the Opposition party...
Gang violence in the St Andrew South Western constituency is crippling efforts to drive up vaccination against COVID-19 in several communities there, increasing concerns that the most vulnerable may be left behind. The constituency, represented by...
Cabinet colleagues of resigned Agriculture Minister Floyd Green have declared that he will be back. Green, the St Elizabeth South Western member of parliament, quit on Wednesday over a no-movement day party video that showed him among a group of...
The parliamentary Opposition is calling for more heads to roll in the wake of the resignation of Agriculture Minister Floyd Green and government Councillor Andrew Bellamy on Wednesday after a video emerged showing the two among a group of people at...
The hopes of 82,000 Jamaicans who received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine and are due a second in three weeks hinge on a shipment from the United States (US) that may not arrive on time, as the Ministry of Health...
Passage of a resolution for the entire membership of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) to vote in internal elections could mark a tectonic shift in political party governance and potentially diminish the influence of bribery and...
Just over a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Mu strain of COVID-19 a “variant of interest”, Jamaica confirmed 26 cases on Thursday, triggering concern locally about its potential to evade protection provided by vaccines...
The death of a 19-year-old woman from Porus, Manchester, has sent her family into a tunnel of grief that seems to have no end in sight after she was diagnosed with diabetes upon contracting COVID-19. Health restrictions stripped the woman, who...
A patient transfer from Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to Bellevue Hospital is believed to have triggered a second outbreak of COVID-19 at the state-run mental-health facility, where one person has so far died and 35, including registered nurses,...
