PUSHING BACK at criticism that he may be a liability to the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell is asserting that his public pronouncements are merely part of his role as an “electrifying speaker” for the...
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang is calling for patience with the 10-month-old Firearms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act, following the brutal slaying of a pregnant woman and her family in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on...
Five trade unions representing employees at the National Water Commission (NWC) have written to board chairman Michael Shaw demanding an “urgent” change in leadership at the state-run entity, after accusing its president and vice-president of “...
More than 40,000 private sector employees represented by three of the country’s bargaining unions could be negatively impacted by the Bank of Jamaica’s (BOJ) recent caution to businesses to temper any significant increase in wages amid current...
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has criticised Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles for cautioning private businesses against giving substantial salary increases amid sustained inflationary challenges affecting the country...
The immigration officer accused of mistreating a Jamaican expatriate and her American son just over a week ago has countered the claims made by the visitor in a report lodged to the Passport, Immigration...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) is expected to pay millions of dollars in interest to commercial banks and other financial institutions when it offloads mortgages for contributors earning $30,001 or more weekly to these entities. The change, which...
THREE JAMAICANS living in London, who were forced to look over their shoulders in fear, had their illegal statuses reversed in June, ending decades of dependence and hardship worsened by ill health. Former Tivoli Gardens resident Neville Nelms,...
Grove Broadcasting Company Limited (IRIE FM) on Tuesday slammed the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), claiming that its ruling for the radio station to reimburse dozens of employees for a 2020 salary cut was merely to appease the Government....
A Jamaican man who says he suffered mental torment and was sexually harassed in a British detention centre is exhaling after a deportation case brought by the Home Office against him fizzled. Former banker James Matthews, 34, who fought against...
Former Chief of Defence Staff Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin has expressed concern about the circumstances under which Jamaica has decided to deploy troops in Haiti, asserting that the conditions in the French-speaking country are chaotic. Prime...
Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz says his defamation lawsuit filed against Dr Dayton Campbell is expected to correct a 40-year-old wrong that has “plagued” him since he first entered representational politics in 1986. Vaz, who represents the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has rubbished suggestions that the increase in retirement age for Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, extending her time in office, is a compromise that could yield favourable outcomes for members of...
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has indicated that his government may send troops to Haiti amid ongoing turmoil in the French-speaking nation’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Browne, who was responding to a Gleaner query on Thursday...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has started making preparations for a mission to Haiti amid ongoing gang violence in the French-speaking country’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, multiple Gleaner sources have confirmed. The deployment is to take place...
Tension is brewing between the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) after the opposition party on Wednesday accused the president of the business lobby, Metry Seaga, of exercising political bias...
The state-owned National Works Agency (NWA) has rejected the findings of the latest auditor general’s report, insisting that there was no cost overrun on five road rehabilitation projects but instead “additional amounts” that represent “valued and...
Government’s decision to increase the retirement age for Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has sparked a public row between the King’s Counsel (KC) and her senior deputy director of public prosecutions, Kathy-Ann Pyke, who in an...
The National Works Agency (NWA) incurred cost overrun totalling US$63.4 million (J$9.8 billion) for rehabilitation work on five of six main roads under the Major Infrastructure Development Programme (MIDP), an audit of the state agency’s books has...
Government legislator Daryl Vaz on Tuesday moved a censure motion against Opposition Leader Mark Golding over a comment he made on a political platform in St Andrew East Rural on Sunday. The motion came at the adjournment of the sitting of the...
Government backbencher Lester Mike Henry, who attended three of 53 parliamentary sittings last year, has sought to defend his extended absence, noting a knee injury that required surgery. The 88-year-old, who serves as member of Parliament (MP)...
A UNIVERSITY professor says job descriptions for members of parliament (MPs) in Jamaica are “useless” because of the Westminster system of government practised which cannot facilitate them. “The MPs know this but they are in a political quagmire...
INTENSE CRITICISM of political representation across the island has triggered a debate on whether members of parliament should reside in their constituencies, a move one public commentator says is worthy of legislative exploration. Only one of the...
THERE HAS been radio silence from the Public Service Commission (PSC) on the court-ordered reinstitution of Dean-Roy Bernard days before the three-month deadline is set to expire. Bernard, the permanent secretary in the education ministry, was “...
THE STATE’S Mines and Geology Division (MGD) has joined the discourse on the suitability of Jack’s Hill in St Andrew for multifamily housing developments, describing the area as “highly prone to a number of geo-hazards”. Much of the hill,...
