Prime Minister Andrew Holness will be under the microscope in Parliament’s Lower House today when he makes his contribution to the Budget Debate, which comes three weeks after a hotly contested local government election that has balanced Jamaica’s...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has dismissed Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke’s claim that Jamaica would have been blacklisted had general consumption tax (GCT) not been removed from imported raw foodstuff. Following his opening of the 2024-2025...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) paid $1.3 million for the rental of a luxury vehicle to transport Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, following a motor-vehicle crash that disabled the 2023 BMW X6 assigned to him. The payment...
THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition has accused the Jamaican Government of poorly managing the 2022 Population and Housing Census, even as Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke denies that the process has been compromised. Opposition Spokesperson on Finance...
THE JAMAICAN Government has defended its decision to remove general consumption tax (GCT) from all raw food, imported or domestic, indicating that it chose the lesser of two evils to avoid trade sanctions. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke told...
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is yet to establish a policy for treating Haitian refugees who arrive on the shores of member states even amid the decision to establish a presidential council for the violence-torn country that would oversee a...
Embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned as leader of the violence-torn nation. The announcement was made by CARICOM Chairman Mohamed Irfaan Ali during a press conference held at the end of a lengthy day of high level talks at The...
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is facing criticisms over its delivery of the results of Monday’s local government elections, which left the country without definitive answers on which of the two major political parties had won. “They need to...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is promising to overhaul how accountability is exercised within municipal corporations, outlining that it will, among other things, require them to show how taxpayers’ money is being spent. The PNP also...
Just days before the majority of the island’s electors get a chance to cast ballots in the long-overdue local government elections, Jamaica’s two main political parties remain in a dogfight. The battle for the 228 divisions and a single mayorship...
Former Local Government Minister Noel Arscott has accused the Government of squandering taxpayers’ funds, alleging that billions of dollars are being doled out to the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for out-of-service streetlights. Arscott...
Roughly two out of every five Jamaicans believe that the service offered at the local government level has worsened over the last seven years, with the Trelawny Municipal Corporation singled out as the worst-performing council. The findings are the...
The Government has responded with a resounding no to several recommendations for additional benefits for the judiciary, including indexing retired judges’ pensions to current judges’ salaries. Jamaica’s chief justice currently earns $28.8 million...
Political commentators are expressing worry that the issues affecting local governance have taken a backseat to national issues, concluding that the campaign for the February 26 polls has been subsumed by a general election atmosphere. “If one...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his administration is facing a real “conundrum” of turning frowns into smiles even as it presides over a strong economic policy that has pulled Jamaica back from the “brink of bankruptcy”. Noting a record-low...
A cap on campaign financing for aspiring councillors would not have the support of Morant Bay Mayor Hubert Williams, who says it would be a feeble attempt at levelling the playing field. Williams, who successfully contested the White Horses...
A claim by the opposition People’s National Party (PNP), that it is ahead in 60 per cent of the divisions in Westmoreland, has been rubbished by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) which has styled the poll as bogus. “I know long before now that...
An intense battle for the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has Jamaica’s two main political parties claiming a majority of the divisions via internal polls with the local government elections only two weeks away. A single vote...
The country’s two main political parties have indicated that they are finalising their respective teams for two political debates ahead of the February 26 local government elections. The Jamaica Debates Commission (JDC) says it will spend $24...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has criticised civil society bodies over what he says is their failure to hold the parliamentary Opposition accountable, noting that the group flip-flopped in its position on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ)...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), says his Government has no fear of the outcome of the local government elections, disclosing yesterday that he mulled twinning the ballot with the general election in 2020...
Asserting that the residents of Portmore will not change course, People’s National Party (PNP) mayoral candidate Leon Thomas says there will be a clean sweep of the divisions of the municipality in favour of the opposition party at month-end....
A physical altercation between 58-year-old businessman Wayne Walker and Dean Jones, a prospective candidate for the Trinityville Division, is threatening to stir political tension in western St Thomas, with the elder man’s family expressing fear...
Ruing the loss of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) by a single vote in the 2016 local government elections, the People’s National Party (PNP) is treating the upcoming ballot as “the big one” with the Corporate Area at the...
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) says it will wrap training of more than 30,000 workers for the February 26 local government elections this weekend as it finalises the first phase of its preparation for the long-awaited polls. “We’re fairly...
