The reduction in the electricity tax announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday is not expected to benefit the majority of residential users but will create an “equity issue”, energy consultant Stephen Wedderburn has asserted. At the same...
In what could be considered an almost urgent attempt to get Jamaicans to stick with his governing party, Prime Minister Andrew Holness used the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP’s) 81st annual conference on Sunday to target middle-income earners and...
A fiercely contested by-election is set to unfold today in Aenon Town, Clarendon, as Jamaica’s two major political parties pull out all stops to secure the division even as three other contests get under way. The parliamentary by-elections in...
Metry Seaga, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), is dismissing assertions that the Holness administration’s policy shift towards economic growth is aimed at wooing uptown votes, asserting instead that it is the only way...
Ajanae Parchment, the 11-year-old whose scoliosis surgery was cancelled last month due to issues at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC), will undergo the procedure today. The surgery, which doctors have indicated is high risk, is scheduled...
There is a rift within the ranks of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in Manchester North Eastern over who should be its candidate in the upcoming general election as Audley Shaw exits the political arena at the end of his current term. Shaw, who has...
Government Senator Aubyn Hill used the final minutes of his State of the Nation presentation to highlight more than a dozen scandals he said the People’s National Party (PNP) was embroiled in, calling his opposition counterparts “hypocrites”. Hill...
A Campion College teacher who paid a $1.6-million deposit to have copies of two history books she wrote produced by a printing company has elevated the matter to the Fraud Squad after the company failed to deliver a single copy, months after being...
Minister of Industry, Investment, and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, says local businesses must create new products and find new markets overseas if Jamaica is to reverse its 61-year-old trade deficit. Hill, who was making his State of the Nation...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday defended his administration’s management of the economy, pinning the sharp increases in food prices on the coronavirus pandemic and global inflation. Holness said, had it not been for how well his Government...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness says a survey conducted by the party has revealed that some of its parliamentary representatives are underperforming, calling it a “gap” in their representation. Speaking at the St Ann...
A senior lecturer at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland has accused the Ministry of Education of acting “illegally” after her request for study leave to pursue a PhD in educational leadership was denied. She is now...
The Office of the Prime Minister is reportedly close to completing an auditor’s verification report triggered by a major fallout at Jamaica Post between CEO and Postmaster General Lincoln Allen and several staff members, including senior managers....
Jamaica Labour Party leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday rued the loss of the Mocho division in Clarendon North Central, telling Labourites that the governing party is committed to regaining their confidence. “This constituency is very...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding yesterday fired back at Prime Minister Andrew Holness, calling him “desperate and becoming unhinged” after the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader said the People’s National Party (PNP) embraces criminality. Holness was...
Financial giant National Commercial Bank (NCB) says it intends to recover sums amounting to millions of dollars from Visa Debit card customers whose payments to ride-sharing platform Uber were reversed due to a system error that resulted in ‘free...
Coining a new term to describe the operations of the People’s National Party (PNP), Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the opposition party has for years projected sheer entitlement, calling it ‘PNPism’. Holness,...
The Canadian government’s recent decision to reduce immigration and temporary foreign worker approvals is expected to have significant economic impacts for many Jamaicans, according to an experienced immigration attorney. On Thursday, Canadian...
Declaring that there is no money issue involved in addressing the challenges facing Jamaica’s public-health facilities, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton says “systemic defects” are behind the ills affecting some operations at hospitals. He...
United States-based surgeon Dr Robert Brady is decrying the condition of the infrastructure at Jamaica’s public-health facilities after his team was forced to put off a life-changing surgery for an 11-year-old girl. Brady, the section chief at...
A plurality of Jamaicans say they do not care when a date for the next general election is announced even as the country’s two main political parties charge their election machinery for what is expected to be a hotly contested poll. Asked when they...
A mother whose 11-year-old daughter is being gradually disabled by an “aggressive” form of scoliosis says she is frustrated that the surgery to correct the issue has been postponed because of an under-resourced operating theatre at the Bustamante...
Three in every five Jamaicans say they will not vote for a third political party even as there is significant apathy towards the country’s two main rivalling parties. The finding is among the latest in a Don Anderson public opinion poll conducted...
Just under 60 per cent of Jamaicans believe that the country is heading in the wrong direction, the findings of a national survey have shown. At the same time, just over 20 per cent believe that the country is being piloted in the right direction...
The Patterson administration ignored advice from international financial institutions on how to deal with the collapse of Jamaica’s financial sector in the 1990s because it would have been “costly”, former Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies admitted....
