Verbal attacks against the Integrity Commission (IC) from some members of the political directorate as well as the starting remuneration for new recruits who have critical skills to offer to the anti-corruption body are factors that are being...
Jamaica has sponsored Blue Minerals Jamaica Limited to carry out deep-sea mining exploration, but the parliamentary Opposition is raising questions about an apparent change in ownership of the company, which has not been reflected in the records of...
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who resigned as member of parliament for Trelawny Southern last September after facing eight criminal charges for making a false statement in her statutory declarations to...
President of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA), Dr Renee Badroe, is sounding a note of caution that medical practitioners will not be scapegoats for problems that have nothing to do with their remit. The JMDA head told The Gleaner...
Fresh out of high school in the early 1990s, Allan Taylor applied for a job in Parliament. His father worked as a sergeant of police at Gordon House and heard of a vacant position for a parliamentary orderly and encouraged his son to submit an...
A statement by President of the Senate, Tom Tavares-Finson, calling on chairman of the Integrity Commission (IC), retired Justice Seymour Panton, to apologise for “disrespectful and contemptuous” remarks he made while addressing a parliamentary...
With the commissioners of the Integrity Commission (IC) scheduled to appear before the oversight committee of Parliament today, a debate over whether the committee should accept or reject recommendations arising from investigations done by the anti...
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, says the shortage of cement on the market has ended. According to the minister, the Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL), a major producer of the product, has assured him that...
Amid the ongoing debate over the referral of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ financial affairs for further probe, legal experts are offering differing views on Justice Minister Delroy Chuck’s charge that the Integrity Commission (IC) should be...
Lawmakers on the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee will today have an opportunity to reject or accept a referral to the Financial Investigations Division (FID) regarding three companies linked to Prime Minister Andrew Holness. Kevon...
Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) Mickel Jackson says a complete restart of the constitutional reform process is unnecessary, but acknowledges that a new approach to citizen engagement is vital to the exercise. Her comments come...
As the Financial Investigations Division (FID) moves to analyse the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s statutory declarations, The Gleaner understands that his legal team plans to pursue a judicial review of the...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding has vowed that a new Government led by him will make lands available to the National Housing Trust (NHT) for qualified contributors, to allow them to build their own homes. During what is...
After protracted and sometimes contentious negotiations between the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service on the compensation restructuring exercise, both parties on Thursday inked an...
Former chairman of the Access to Information (ATI) Appeals Tribunal, Justice (Ret’d) Roy Anderson, is bemoaning the lethargic approach by the State in appointing a new panel following the expiration of the term of the five-member body in February....
The tribunal created under the Access to Information (ATI) Act to handle appeals when Jamaicans are denied information by government agencies or public bodies has been inactive since February. Attorney-at-law Andre Earle, KC, is claiming that the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the United Nations-backed multinational security support mission to Haiti is not expected to resolve all the problems affecting the CARICOM country that has been plagued by gangs that control about 80 per cent of...
China Harbour Engineering Company Limited (CHEC) has come out in defence of its pending Mammee Bay Housing Development Project in St Ann, dismissing as misconceived, claims by an environmental lobby that recently called for the “watershed...
There is growing disquiet among an increasing number of public sector workers over continued delays, which are being blamed on the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, in bringing closure to lingering issues under the compensation review...
When the House of Representatives returns from its summer break later this month, the parliamentary Opposition says it will be pressing the Government to place on the agenda for debate a plethora of private members’ motions as well as a bill tabled...
The Integrity Commission (IC) on Thursday departed from its custom of delivering investigative reports exclusively to the three main parliamentary leaders. In addition to sending an investigation report and a ruling by the director of corruption...
With Marsha Smith’s resignation as a legislator and state minister, a former senior figure in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is suggesting that Prime Minister Andrew Holness should call by-elections to fill two currently vacant...
The Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has issued a stop order on the construction of a car dealership at 11 WestLake Avenue, in the Richmond Park area of St Andrew, following recent protests by residents of the community about...
The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has reversed a deficit of $1.7 billion last year to a surplus of $350 million year-to-date. This was disclosed by Professor Densil Williams, principal of The UWI, during a forum last week at the...
After an extended delay in producing a report on the 2022 Population and Housing Census, the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has signalled that the long-awaited survey on the national population count will be revealed during the 2025-2026...
