Stories by Erica Virtue

Chief executive officer of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) Errol Greene will not be returning to that institution anytime soon.Greene had been seconded to the Western Regional Health Authority (WRHA) for six months last April and should have...

Nine years after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti and killed what some estimate to be more than 300,000 persons, the country is still suffering the debilitating effects, with very little to show from the massive international aid package...

Decades after the bond of friendship between Jamaica and Cuba was developed while the late Michael Manley and Fidel Castro were at the helm of their respective countries, Cuba's Ambassador to Jamaica Inez Fors Fernandez has declared that the...

Minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister Karl Samuda, who has responsibility for housing and lands, has warned that the Government will not be bullied into paying for lands where there is suspicion about how it was acquired....

The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) is again warning operators of bars, shops, clubs and other businesses with gaming machines such as poker boxes, that they need to be registered to operate legally.A drive is now on to educate...

While most Jamaicans are preparing for the usual festivities which surround the Christmas period, more than 40 residents of premises on Fifth Street in Cockburn Gardens, St Andrew, are now homeless and trying to figure out their next move.Among the...

More than 100 persons from 20 families with an estimated 80 children have been served with notices to leave a property on Lyndhurst Road in East Central St Andrew, which some of them have occupied for nearly 50 years, and they are not happy."You...

A proposal by principal of The Mico University College, Dr Ashburn Pinnock, for each member of parliament to sponsor a male student to the college's teaching degree programme, in an effort to increase the number of men in Jamaica's classrooms, has...

Plans by the United Church of Jamaica and Grand Cayman to establish a community college on lands that now house Clarendon College in Chapleton are in limbo as squatters have taken over a section of the property.To compound the problem, the squatters...

After 11 years as a clerk at the Supreme Court, Lloyd Smith was fired last year in what he believes was an unfair retaliation to his complaints about the lack of staff evaluation, the constant changing of his duties, and his concerns after being...

As the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) plots is way to a second political term, its leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, and his top lieutenants, have been busy crafting a plan to attract more women and young people to the political process.The party,...

Faced with a mountain of allegations against attorneys-at-law, the General Legal Council (GLC) is considering several changes to tighten the rules governing contingency fees charged by lawyers operating in Jamaica.Under a contingent fee arrangement...