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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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-...
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
A senior official at St George’s College has countered a report that a student was given a week’s suspension for recording and posting to social media a video that is believed to have embarrassed the school. The official, who asked not to be...
Jamaica’s former deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Ambassador Byron Blake says individual member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) taking action against Israel will have no real impact on the Middle Eastern country....
House Speaker Juliet Holness on Tuesday defended her decision to send reports from the Integrity Commission to its oversight body before tabling as government and opposition legislators sparred over the non-disclosure of the attorney general’s (AG...
THE JAMAICA Labour Party’s (JLP) message from the political platform urging Jamaicans not to dispose of the Holness administration is an indication that the governing party is in “panic mode”, political analysts have concluded. The assessment...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Andrew Holness told Labourites in St Ann North Eastern on Sunday that Matthew Samuda’s candidacy was one endorsed by the late Shahine Robinson amid their objection to a second term for Marsha Smith. Samuda, the...
One person has been taken into custody after dozens of bomb threats to more than 70 institutions, mainly schools, between Thursday and Friday caused chaos and heightened fears and anxiety across the island. The police have determined that none was...
Chairman of the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) Lloyd Distant says consensus is lacking on several issues, including legislation and accountability, that may be hindering any significant reduction in lawlessness in Jamaica. Distant’s...
THE JAMAICAN Government is considering ways it may “rectify” its failure to vote on Jordan’s resolution at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last month, which called for a humanitarian truce in the ongoing Hamas-Israel conflict in the...
A foul-up by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service that may have resulted in millions of dollars being paid to government employees since January is causing unease in the public sector as it seeks to halt the payments. The Jamaica Civil...
THE BRITISH Government has pumped more than J$200 million or £1.1 million into the operations of the Integrity Commission since 2020 and has pledged a further J$66 million for its ongoing work up to 2025. The extended memorandum of understanding (...
A QUESTION over whether the Government has consulted with the Maroons in the ongoing constitutional reform process triggered a testy exchange between Marlene Malahoo Forte and Steven Golding after the legislator asserted emphatically that Jamaica...
