Jamaica has improved in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) but is still among the most corrupt countries in the world as an estimated $95 billion is lost annually to the scourge. The island moved up a single point from 43 to 44 out of 100,...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding and Prime Minister Andrew Holness traded barbs in Parliament on Tuesday over the country’s crime management and the mystery plane that crash-landed in Rocky Point, Clarendon, at the weekend. The occupants of the...
Days after tighter strictures were placed on Manchester to contain the worrying spike in COVID-19 numbers, some areas of national life are being given a reprieve following intense lobbying. Effective February 1, churches will have the green light...
In a staunch defence of press freedom, the Reverend Dr Peter Garth lobbied for the protection of media rights as he warned against a perceived worrying trend of influential figures seeking to silence voices with which they disagree. He also...
Three billion dollars is being spent to vaccinate 16 per cent of the population against COVID-19, and the bill will climb with the Government giving early signals that the medicine could be introduced into the regular inoculation schedule for the...
Leaders of the People’s National Party (PNP) sought on Sunday to present a united front at a service at the Boulevard Baptist Church where they recommited to the principles and values of the 82-year-old movement. The Rev Dr Howard Gregory, who...
With tension simmering in Jamaica over a controversial decision by the United States authorities to nab four Jamaican men and destroy their boat, alleging it was carrying cocaine, high-level talks between the two countries are now under way to make...
Education Minister Fayval Williams on Tuesday told Parliament that her ministry is working to address issues being faced by parents trying to access the Government’s portal to get a tablet device. As a result, the platform will be reopened on...
An attempt by a parliamentary committee to dig into a controversial bid for a licence to allow mining in the ecologically sensitive Puerto Bueno Mountains came up empty-handed yesterday after the Attorney General’s Department cautioned them against...
Debate on a proposed new law to establish a fiscal commission to do independent analysis and give opinions and presentations on the country’s finances got under way yesterday, with Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke insisting that the country will...
Amid what was a difficult 2020, dozens of Jamaicans who lived public lives or gave stellar service in various fields over the years bade their goodbyes, leaving the nation in mourning. As the coronavirus pandemic reached our shores, Jamaicans were...
With a single Caribbean country yet to receive any vial of the COVID-19 vaccine released a month ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says big countries are hoarding the precious medicine. Wealthy countries have been engaged in surplus buying since...
Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, the man who built an all-inclusive hotel empire which spanned the Caribbean despite having no prior experience in that sector, hung up his sandals on Monday and has walked off into the sunset with footprints of a legacy left...
In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, some students in the faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have felt tremendous pressure, but their experiences have highlighted major gaps in the delivery of tertiary...
A new mobile training unit at the HEART/NSTA Trust has been launched to reach trainees in rural areas and help alleviate the challenges they are facing in completing assessments due to the COVID-19-induced disruptions in the delivery of programmes...
With a $72.1 billion deficit this fiscal year so far, Jamaica’s fiscal well-being continues to take a battering from the COVID-19 pandemic, with expectations that government operations will likely fall deeper into the red. The only conciliation...
The Integrity Commission has found that the then Hanover Parish Council which was chaired by Shernet Haughton deliberately splintered contracts which led to three being issued to a person identified as Mr ‘BB’, his son, and his girlfriend. However...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries should stop with immediate effect the issuance of chicken back and neck import permits under current arrangements, the Integrity Commission has recommended in a damning report. The report, tabled in the...
Argentinian Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Del Solar has lamented that the coronavirus pandemic has delayed a number of partnerships he was pushing to forge with Jamaica. Among them, the introduction of rugby in prisons as a means of rehabilitation, a...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding urged Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Monday to get cracking with outstanding justice reforms, including settling on the country’s final appellate court. The leaders were speaking at the swearing-in ceremony for the...
Oil and gas company Shell, which is incorporated in England, is seeking to re-enter the Jamaican market. This was revealed by British High Commissioner Asif Ahmad, who told The Gleaner that his office will be making a big push on trade over the...
It was King’s House which informed Mark Golding on Thursday that Peter Bunting could not sit at Friday’s sitting, plunging the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) into another round of turmoil. Earlier this week, Opposition Leader Mark Golding...
Claiming to be more popular than Lisa Hanna, People’s National Party (PNP) firebrand Damion Crawford has ripped into President Mark Golding and suggested that he will launch a presidential bid in the next five years. The outburst is bound to open...
The row between the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn and Isat Buchanan, one of the attorneys representing incarcerated dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel, has deepened. The DPP on Thursday threatened to report Buchanan to the...
Argentine football star Diego Maradona cast his ‘Hand of God’ goal in the crucial 1986 World Cup play-off as a vengeful strike against England four years after the British crushed an invading force in a bitter war over the Falklands Islands. The...
