Published:Monday | December 14, 2015 | 12:12 PMStaff Reporter
Jamaica has fallen a further three places on the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The report, which ranks countries according to the Human Development Index (HDI) was released today. Last year, the country...
The Government has removed a controversial clause in the proposed DNA law which speaks to a prisoner transfer arrangement and the taking of samples from persons transferred to Jamaica to complete their sentences. The clause caused a delay in the...
MORE THAN 20 persons were on Thursday detained as cops from various police divisions swarmed downtown Kingston in an operation called 'Clean Sweep', the first of several aimed at bringing order to the shopping hub in time for the Christmas season."...
Chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Corrections, Arlington Turner, says there is no truth to claims of a death squad of correction officers operating at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston. Turner says claims of wide-scale...
Six persons reportedly escaped from the Freeport Police Station in St James this morning, leaving investigators probing for clues at this hour. According to police sources, the six persons allegedly escaped through a hole in a bathroom floor...
Published:Tuesday | November 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media at the University of the West Indies, Dr Hopeton Dunn has raised concerns that the high cost of Internet access and mobile data charges may be hampering the ability of Jamaicans to use the...
Published:Monday | November 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
Even as enrolment numbers continue to climb at the University of the West Indies (UWI), the prospects for employment once graduates exit the premier tertiary institution in the region have never been more dim. The most recent graduate tracer study...
The Office of the Public Defender has launched a probe into the circumstances that led to the deaths of 18 newborns at two of the island’s major hospitals. The Office says the investigation has already started, but has declined to comment any...
Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell, says he does not expect a conflict of interest will arise when the new oversight body for the Office of the Utilities Regulations (OUR) becomes operational. Last week, the Parliament passed amendments to the OUR...
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla has launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding how an attorney-at-law was arrested inside the Supreme Court building. The investigation was prompted by a complaint from the Jamaican Bar Association. Association...
Published:Wednesday | October 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
A rural school bus system that the Transport Authority introduced to sections of Clarendon as a pilot project to put a brake on deadly accidents has been rejected by the students it was intended to serve.The ministry, in response to tragic accidents...
Delta Airlines says there are no reports of injuries arising from today’s fire on-board one of its planes at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James. Some 160 passengers and six crew members were on board. Responding to...
Justice Minister Senator Mark Golding says the government is not in a position to compensate persons who report for juror duty but are not empanelled. Senator Golding notes that this has been a long-held rule and there are no plans at this time to...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
In the latest update from the Ministry of Health all parishes with the exception of four have been affected by the Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD). In a joint press conference with the Ministry of Education, Minister of Health, Dr Fenton...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
The Education Ministry has come out stridently to defend its handling of the outbreak of Hand Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) in various schools across the island. In a joint press conference with the Ministry of Health, the Education Ministry has...
The Government is to bring forward the payment of outstanding sums owed to public sector nurses from the reclassification of the health sector. President of the Nurses’ Association of Jamaica (NAJ) Janet Farr says this was agreed at a meeting...
Jamaica is to further relax the visa requirements for nationals of select Latin American countries who make short-term visits to the island. Cabinet has approved an amendment to the conditional waiver visa requirement for holders of a passport from...
Public sector workers are to get a subsidy to use the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC). A circular posted on the Ministry of Finance’s website indicates that the subsidy was one of the items agreed to in the Heads of Agreement...
Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
Employees of the National Water Commission (NWC) this morning staged a protest decrying what they call the unjust actions of management in signing off on a new health insurance plan. The workers say the new health insurance plan decreases their...
Director of Elections, Orrette Fisher, says there has been a significant increase in the number of persons seeking to get on to the new voter’s list. Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting an application. Fisher says preliminary figures have...
Another public passenger operator has taken the Transport Authority to court. This time, hackney carriage operator, Mark Seccard, has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking to challenge the regulator’s decision to change the number...
Published:Friday | September 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
The Young Professional Affiliate of the Jamaica Labour Party Generation 2000 (G2K) wants the government to remove the tax on items used to promote water conservation. G2K president, Mathew Samuda, made the call at a press conference this morning as...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, is calling for security arrangements to be put in place at all courts across the island to protect prosecutors and support staff. Her appeal comes against the background of an attack on a...
Local Government Minister Noel Arscott says he has now signed the necessary instruments to have the boundary changes in the Portmore Municipality in St Catherine gazetted. There have been repeated calls for the government to fix boundary...
Published:Wednesday | September 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMStaff Reporter
Just under 100,000 Jamaicans migrated to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom from 2010-2013. The latest data on migration trends from the Migration Policy Project Unit at the Planning Institute of Jamaica show that 99,963 persons...
