Private schools will independently decide whether they will continue with face-to-face classes, dismissing the education ministry’s declaration that only exit exam students should attend in-person sessions as merely “an announcement”. A meteoric...
May 28 has, for the past two years, been a dreaded date on the calendar for the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). While members of the party were on Thursday preparing to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of former Prime Minister...
Published:Thursday | June 28, 2018 | 1:46 PMRomario Scott
Olivia Grange, the minister of gender, culture, entertainment and sport, has disclosed that a number of shelters are being built for victims of abuse even as the government moves to facilitate permanent housing solution for the family of two girls...
Published:Thursday | June 8, 2017 | 11:31 AMRomario Scott
At the end of June, the tenure of United States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno will come to an end, this after having spent four years in the post.At a farewell ceremony hosted by Moreno at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday,...
Published:Monday | April 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The People's National Party (PNP) is seeking to get from the Government a written commitment to the calling of an early by-election in the event there is a vacancy on the opposition benches in Parliament.The request comes against the backdrop of PNP...
Published:Sunday | February 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The Andrew Holness administration has so far been receiving positive feedback from stakeholder groups for its performance in wake of its one-year anniversary since being voted into office.The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Environment Trust...
Published:Wednesday | November 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The police have disclosed that they have not been able to make any headway in the case involving a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) allowing a female civilian to perform a simulated sexual act on his M-16 rifle.In the less-than-10-...
Published:Friday | February 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Heath Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has turned back stinging criticisms from his opposition counterpart over the issue of noxious fumes choking patients and staff at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James.Horace Dalley on Friday launched an...
Published:Tuesday | November 8, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
At a time when domestic violence is on the rise in Jamaica, there has been a sharp reduction in the number of police personnel murdering their spouses.The police say that over the past two years, they have not recorded a single killing of a spouse...
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Dwayne Vaz, the member of parliament (MP) for Central Westmoreland, is convinced that injecting millions of dollars through massive government investments is the only way to assist his constituency in addressing its social and infrastructural ills....
Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 1:59 PMRomario Scott
Amid growing concerns among members of the Parliamentary Opposition, Derrick Smith, the minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, has declared that the Government is not opposed to having a fixed timeline for by-elections when...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Prime Minister Andrew Holness last week declared that the public-sector transformation reform on which the Government has embarked is a national policy.Speaking at Jamaica House in Kingston, the prime minister said his administration was seeking to...
Published:Thursday | December 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Veteran crime fighter Senior Superintendent Steve McGregor is calling for a radical change in the approach to preventing and fighting crime in the country.Supt. McGregor, who is in charge of the Territorial Operations Portfolio of the Jamaica...
Published:Friday | January 6, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Pearnel Charles Jr, state minister in the Ministry of National Security, last week extended an invitation to members of the Sizzla Youth Foundation and other key stakeholders to share with him the formula that resulted in a turnaround of the once...
Published:Wednesday | January 4, 2017 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
Sheri-Ann McGregor, president of the usually vocal The Jamaican Bar Association, says she is in no position to comment on the recent revocation of the visas of two high-profile attorneys.Last week, news came that for undisclosed reasons, the United...
Published:Friday | December 23, 2016 | 3:41 PMRomario Scott
Telecommunications company FLOW is offering customers whose private numbers were exposed in the 2017 residential telephone directory, a new private number, free of charge for a year.FLOW said that as part of its efforts to minimise negative impact...
Published:Thursday | December 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The Opposition has accused the Andrew Holness-led administration of "reaping what it did not sow" and has charged that the months-old administration cannot take credit for the levels of growth that are being recorded in the economy.Government...
Published:Tuesday | December 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The tourism and cargo-shipment sectors are set to record momentous growth as a result of an air-service agreement that was yesterday inked between the Jamaican and Canadian governments.The agreement, negotiated on the Jamaican Government's behalf by...
Published:Sunday | December 11, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
The Transport Authority (TA) has dismissed recent claims that taxi companies are using illegal taxis, or robots, to transport passengers across the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA).The Gleaner had put the issue to the owners and managing directors...
Published:Thursday | November 17, 2016 | 9:38 AMRomario Scott
A former Barbadian prime minister is strongly suggesting that Jamaica and other Caribbean countries latch on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to give the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) a boost of confidence.Speaking last Wednesday in the...
Published:Monday | September 26, 2016 | 4:32 PMRomario Scott
Former prime minister and chairman of the Government's Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Commission, Bruce Golding, is of the view that lack of research is putting a drag on the integration process of Caribbean countries.He noted that there is little...
Published:Tuesday | October 4, 2016 | 5:05 PMRomario Scott
Everald Warmington, the state minister in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, has charged that some members of parliament (MPs) are lazy, this in light of being accused by the opposition spokesman on Transport and works of politically...
Published:Sunday | October 9, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
A man said to be of unsound mind last night had his home set ablaze after being accused of gruesomely killing a well-known elderly taxi operator in a small, informal section of Hague, Trelawny, yesterday evening, shortly after 4 p.m.The police say...
Published:Saturday | October 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMRomario Scott
State Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Rudyard Spencer commissioned into operation six new vehicles for the Jamaica Customs Agency to enhance its effectiveness in carrying out its mandate.The vehicles include three Nissan...
