John Briceño, the prime minister of Belize, says his government had no choice but to adjust immigration and travel policies for Jamaicans and Haitians, amid a suspected ongoing human-smuggling ring in the region. The CARICOM member state, situated...
The Government of Belize has expressed concerns that there is an ongoing human smuggling ring involving Jamaicans, with more than 50 per cent of Jamaicans who travelled to the CARICOM country over the last 14 months being unaccounted for. Of the 1...
VINCENT MORRISON, president of the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), is urging the island’s industrial security guards not to sign contracts given to them by their respective companies, even as the deadline for...
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Marc Williams, who represented discarded education ministry Permanent Secretary (PS) Dean-Roy Bernard, says a message has been sent that “no one is above the law” after the court ruled that his reassignment to a “created post” by...
The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has investigated fewer than one per cent of the 44,764 genuine fires reported over the last five years and conducted only 10 per cent of follow-up inspections on buildings flagged for non-conformity between 2017 and...
RICHARD ALBERT, the Canadian expert hired by the Government to advise the Constitutional Reform Committee assembled to guide the country’s transition from a constitutional monarchy to a republic, says this requires a very technical, legal and...
OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding has warned that there will be no consensus from his team on matters of constitutional reform that do not ensure human rights are upheld, amid concerns over the appointment of former Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant...
The parliamentary Opposition has sought to distance itself from recommendations made by legislator Everald Warmington that could weaken the country’s foremost anti-corruption body, noting instead that it would support its entrenchment in the...
The Portia Simpson Miller-led Government’s acceptance of a British man, who was deported from his birth country to the island in 2015, has raised questions about the level of due diligence undertaken by Jamaican authorities tasked with oversight of...
Human rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) and National Integrity Action (NIA) are urging Jamaicans to reject a proposal by government minister Everald Warmington to, among other things, remove the prosecutorial powers of the Greg Christie-led...
THE APPOINTMENT of 11 lawyers and a former army chief to the 14-member Constitutional Reform Committee is being heavily criticised by civil society and one member of the legal fraternity, even as Prime Minister Andrew Holness insisted on Wednesday...
A PUSH for security guards across the island to sign contracts ahead of April 1 when they are to be recognised as employees instead of independent contractors is being met with resistance by one legal mind and a seasoned trade unionist who argue...
The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) has disclosed that it spent more than $500 million during the height of the coronavirus pandemic to lure visitors to the island, even as countries closed their borders and businesses shuttered to limit the spread of...
There are questions being raised about the legitimacy of Thursday’s voting exercise which resulted in rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) agreeing to accept the Government’s latest compensation offer. The Gleaner has been...
Minimum wage earners will see a 44 per cent increase in their salaries effective June 1, the largest percentage increase in 20 years, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Thursday. The national minimum wage, which now stands at $9,000 per 40-...
An 80-year-old woman whose accounts at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) were reportedly defrauded of US$830,000 has filed a lawsuit against the investment firm, its former Client Relationship Manager Jean-Ann Panton, founder Hugh Croskery, and...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes yesterday stopped short of disagreeing with a proposal from the Government to increase mandatory minimum sentences, noting that the move threatens to reverse the gains made by the court in terms of its significant...
The most popular response in the latest Don Anderson opinion poll has indicated that Jamaicans do not believe the Holness administration deserves re-election when the next parliamentary polls take place. Of the 1,002 Jamaicans who participated in...
More than 50 per cent of Jamaicans have indicated that things are moving in the wrong direction, with 62 per cent noting that it costs too much to live on the island. The findings are the results of a People’s National Party-commissioned opinion...
Crime and violence continue to be the Holness administration’s Achilles heel with almost half of those polled in the latest Don Anderson opinion survey indicating that it is the single-most significant issue facing the country. A total of 1,002...
Nearly half of the Jamaicans quizzed in an islandwide survey have indicated that they are better off now than three years ago, even as global inflation soared to an all-time high in two decades, geopolitical conflicts persist, and the coronavirus...
An overwhelming number of Jamaicans believe that both the Government and Opposition are underperforming in their respective capacities, the latest Don Anderson opinion poll have revealed. The Holness administration has seen a 14.3-percentage point...
The Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) restoration bill continues to balloon, with latest government estimates putting the price tag at $10.5 billion, doubling the initial cost for completion. Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health and...
Jamaica’s “exceedingly high” murder rate of 45 per 100,000 people has triggered a review of sentences under two key pieces of legislation, which the Holness administration believes will “treat with the scourge of crime in a decisive manner”. The...
At least one member of the oversight committee of the Integrity Commission has said that the commissioners have questions to answer following the delayed release of a ruling that exonerated Prime Minister Andrew Holness from conflict-of-interest...
