The Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it will be seeking “guidance” from the country’s data protection regulator, which has contradicted its claim that the law blocks the release of the names of owners of two properties it is leasing. The TAJ...
A fight involving private investors, who are accusing the Government of breaching a nearly 30-year-old agreement for the development of Port Royal, including through a cruise port, is now at the Court of Appeal. In a major decision last month, the...
A government agency is refusing to disclose the names of two entities with which it has entered into contracts costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, claiming that the Data Protection Act prevents it from doing so. The situation raises...
Dr Gene Leon’s return to his position as president of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) appears unlikely in the near future, as concerns persist regarding the bank’s handling of whistleblower complaints against him. Tensions escalated in...
Almost two years after the Government offered $700 million in loans to players in the transportation and entertainment sectors hit by the COVID-19 crunch, only just over $1 million of the funds has been disbursed. The low take-up of the offer has...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) reportedly recommended abandoning plans to fund Phase Two of the controversial upscale Ruthven Towers project to make way for it to be undertaken by any interested private developer. The recommendation was...
His family, teachers, and alma mater Charlemont High School are celebrating the fulfilment of a promise – Dr Kevin Blake, the punctual boy who excelled in agriculture and information technology, becoming the head of Jamaica’s 156-year-old police...
A company is seeking the intervention of Prime Minister Andrew Holness in its push to convert a New Kingston residential lot into a parking lot for a proposed multimillion-dollar business, hoping that he will overturn a state regulator’s “tainted”...
The former head of enforcement at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), whose alleged “gross dereliction” reportedly facilitated construction breaches by the National Water Commission (NWC) president, has been permitted to challenge...
Months after sections of Kingston’s maximum security facility were declared an “immediate danger to inmates and staff”, prisoners are still being housed in the compromised areas. The situation has raised fresh questions about the push for a modern...
The Cabinet last year approved a $15-billion emergency contract to a Chinese firm for the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) rehabilitation project despite Jamaica’s chief procurement agency saying the health ministry led an “irregular” process. But...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) that blocks it from telling taxpayers about a settlement with a developer from whom it is reclaiming $650 million in a botched deal, leaked documents suggest. “The parties...
The former head of enforcement at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is pushing for the Supreme Court to strike out an Integrity Commission (IC) finding that “gross dereliction” on her part facilitated alleged construction breaches...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) has reached a settlement with Dexim Holdings Limited, the developer it sued for allegedly not delivering any of an agreed 200 houses despite paying over $650 million under a $2.5-billion contract. “There was a...
A government member of parliament (MP) being investigated for possible illicit enrichment was due to face the Integrity Commission (IC) in February for an interview, but it was not held because of a reported “procedural issue”. The official was...
The operators of Jamaica College (JC) have rejected former principal Ruel Reid’s claim for at least $10 million in incentive payments and are pushing for his lawsuit to be thrown out. Reid, a former education minister who resigned in 2019 amid...
Three HEART/NSTA Trust employees say they have been left dejected and hurt after a slew of new charges were brought against them just days before their “nine months of hell” in suspension was due to end. The matter follows an investigation of at...
Former Education Minister Ruel Reid is seeking at least $10 million in incentive payments and salary top-ups for his time as principal of Jamaica College (JC), the all-boys high school he is suing for alleged breach of contract. Reid, who resigned...
Ruel Reid, the former education minister who resigned amid corruption allegations, is suing the owners of Jamaica College (JC) for millions of dollars he claims is owed to him for the last four years of his contract as principal. It is the latest...
An expert witness has contended that “flawed” accounting used by Cornerstone caused businesswoman Rita Humphries-Lewin to waste US$6 million on “overpriced” shares in the investment company. At the average exchange rate for September 2021, US$6...
The committee managing Rita Humphries-Lewin’s affairs has asked the Supreme Court to undo more than $2 billion worth of transactions involving the retired businesswoman and investment firms Cornerstone and its subsidiary Barita. Rita’s husband,...
Claiming that the transaction “does not make commercial sense”, Sagicor Investments Jamaica last year demanded an explantion from Cornerstone for Rita Humphries-Lewin’s sale of 28.2 million shares in Barita, to pay for 1.4 million stocks in...
Rita Humphries-Lewin’s dementia had so worsened up to January 2023 that the 87-year-old respected Jamaican businesswoman reportedly could not even recall the word ‘Barita’ – the name of the investment company she established more than four decades...
There may be “some merit” to a claim that businesswoman Rita Humphries-Lewin, who is reportedly battling dementia, was pressured to spend $2 billion to buy shares in investment firm Cornerstone, says the agency that probes financial crimes in...
