A pre-feasibility study on the prospects for hydropower generation from five of Jamaica's rivers has indicated the country could nearly double the existing hydropower capacity if investors tap four of those...
With an at least two-month delay in the presentation of answers to questions about the prime minister's travels, the Opposition says it has no faith that Portia Simpson Miller is willing to speak on the issue...
As the debate over the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill intensifies, Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President, Dr Mark Nicely, is alleging that the proposed legislation was deliberately crafted to get rid of the powerful teachers' union.Nicely...
Opposition Finance Spokesman Audley Shaw yesterday dismissed the views on bank fees put forward by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, under whose administration he served as finance minister....
A member of the clergy has issued a warning to the country to protect its own interests when negotiating with foreigners.Making reference to the recent furore over Jamaica's place in the regional trading bloc...
Yallahs, St Thomas: An eight-year-old girl was found murdered in Top Hill, St Thomas, yesterday afternoon. The child has been identified as Celena Edmond, a student of White Hall Primary School in the parish....
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness yesterday came down on the side of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade A.J. Nicholson, who has argued that Jamaica must be wary of the United States in pursuing a marijuana agenda...
A new day beckons for Jamaica as, for the first time at last, fiscal rules are to be implemented to prevent governments from practising 'run-wid-it' economics.Being forced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to take the bitter medicine that we have...
Vice-president of the National Workers Union (NWU), Granville Valentine, says membership in trade unions has not been affected by the paucity of jobs and an increase in unemployment.Conversely, Valentine claimed enthusiasm...
Nearly a third of the more than 40,000 homicides committed in Jamaica since 1970 have gone cold, and files are languishing on the shelves of some police department with only the pathologist report on the cause...
The St James police are to serve bench warrants for the arrests of more than 30 persons who failed to appear before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court to answer charges related to the non-payment of property taxes."...
The Jamaica Civil Society Coalition (JCSC) says the Energy Monitoring Committee (EMC) overseeing the 360-megawatt energy project should be careful not to allow confidentiality agreements to become an obstacle in its efforts to carry out its mandate.The...
Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Edmund Bartlett, wants Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to report to the nation on the outcome of a summit she attended last week...
The Occupy Pinnacle movement says it is gearing up to reinhabit the historical lands and birthplace of Rastafarianism, 'The Pinnacle', in St Jago Hills.Robert 'Ras Kaleb' Gordon, leader of the Occupy Pinnacle movement and secretary of the Rastafarian...
Peter Bunting has made clear his intention yesterday to resign as the People's National Party's (PNP) general secretary. Addressing delegates at yesterday afternoon's meeting of the National Executive Council (NEC) at the Manchester High School in his...
With the proposed establishment of a logistics hub in Jamaica, lecturer in special education at the School of Education at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Joan Spencer Ernandez, wants a return to what she described as the "glory days" at...
Updating Parliament on the 2014 economic agenda last week, Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips said the next International Monetary Fund (IMF) review mission to Jamaica will begin on Wednesday of this...
Parliamentarian Daryl Vaz sought last Tuesday to set his Opposition colleague Everald Warmington straight about concerns he harboured on the use of 10 acres of King's House lands for housing development.
THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it would risk opening itself up to lawsuits should it publish the due diligence report that has been conducted on Energy World International (EWI), the company which has...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is set to return to the market within months to secure suitable bidders for 37 megawatts (MW) of firm capacity energy generation, as a part of the 115 MW to be added to the national grid from renewable energy sources by 2016.
The energy monitoring committee (EMC) wants the Office of Utilities Regulation to ensure it properly absorbs all the information it receives before making a recommendation to portfolio minister Phillip Paulwell for the issue of a licence to Energy World...
IN A bid to prove that it has the money required to undertake the 360-megawatt power plant construction project, representatives of Energy World International (EWI) and the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) will this week be locked in meetings to discuss the issue of project financing.
