Opposition Senator K.D. Knight has cited “mistakes” he made during his tenure as minister of national security to bolster his call for a fresh management audit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Knight made the call in the Senate last Friday...
The leaders of Jamaica’s security forces have been blasted as “failures” by one opposition senator. Lambert Brown made the assertion yesterday before opposition senators voted along with their colleagues on the government side to extend states of...
Jamaica will “very shortly” change a law that will allow spouses, including those who are married, to be charged for raping their partners. Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has announced that the Government plans to amend the Sexual Offences Act “so...
The allocation of $38 million to commence a forensic audit of oil losses at Petrojam is a demonstration that the Government is serious about untangling the issues at the state-owned refinery, Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has asserted. The...
Murders have fallen 58 per cent in the nearly three months since a state of emergency (SOE) was declared in the St Andrew South Police Division, Government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has revealed. However, despite the sharp reduction, the St...
Heavy rains in recent days have left the Government with an emergency bill for more than $550 million to clear and reinstate over 200 roadways across the island. At the same time, however, citizens grappling with severe water restrictions will get...
Another $5 billion has been allocated to the Major Infrastructure Development Project (MIDP) to fund, among other things, corrective work for residents whose homes were impacted by the roadworks in St James and Westmoreland. Further, the Andrew...
St Catherine and Clarendon account for nearly one-third of the more than 900 persons murdered across the island this year, Leader of Government Business in the Senate Kamina Johnson Smith has revealed. Jamaica has recorded just more than 950...
The state of emergency (SOE) credited with stemming the bloodletting in Clarendon and St Catherine in the last two weeks was preserved for another month after some last-minute talks to find common ground on the floor of the House of Representatives...
The maximum $100 fine that was imposed on alleged gang leader Tesha Miller for an immigration violation remains on the books more than two years after it triggered public outcry. It spurred the Government to conduct a review of so-called paltry...
Lawmakers have backed away from the long prison sentence that was recommended in the long-anticipated data protection law for persons who fail to register as data processors. Section 18 (3) (c) of the proposed data protection bill made failing to...
The Andrew Holness administration is looking to shell out up to US$150 million (J$20.5 billion) to construct a new drainage network across Kingston and St Andrew to put an end to the flooding nightmare in areas of the Corporate Area after heavy...
The number of Jamaicans living in poverty climbed to a shade above 19 per cent in 2017, a document released by the Government has revealed. Ministry Paper 51, which was tabled in the Senate yesterday, indicated that 19.3 per cent of the Jamaican...
The Andrew Holness administration has endorsed a recommendation that a total of $24.5 million in compensation be paid to hundreds of motorists whose vehicles were damaged during the 2015 bad gas saga. This development comes even as the final report...
A government senator has suggested that Jamaica begin taking steps to craft an appropriate policy and legislation to oversee the emerging local surrogacy industry. The suggestion by Kerensia Morrison comes a week after a Sunday Gleaner series...
Mystery shrouds the circumstances under which discarded Education Minister Ruel Reid obtained a credit card with a limit of US$3,800 or just over J$500,000, which was being paid for by taxpayers. Karl Samuda, the minister who has been overseeing...
A total of 402 murders and 441 shooting incidents were recorded in the last 30 months across the communities that fall within the St Andrew South Police Division, government Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has revealed. Johnson Smith, the leader of...
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) has admitted to making payments totaling more than $700,000 over a four-month period on invoices in the name of Devon McQueen, the former driver to sacked Education Minister Ruel Reid. According to the CMU,...
The number of murders recorded nationally in the 10 weeks immediately following a declaration of a state of emergency (SOE) across three western parishes soared by 21 per cent when compared with the corresponding period last year, opposition Member...
Five of the nearly three dozen private security companies accused of flouting the country’s labour laws by short-changing their guards could soon face legal action as part of a get-tough approach by the Government. Labour Minister Shahine Robinson...
Edward Seaga’s list of accomplishments in over four decades of service to his adopted homeland is enough for him to be enshrined as Jamaica’s eighth national hero, Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie has suggested. The suggestion came...
Employees at Petrojam have been left demoralised after nearly six months of public hearings by a parliamentary committee that has shone a searchlight on alleged acts of nepotism, cronyism and corruption which cost the state-owned oil refinery...
Gail Campbell Dunwell, a United States-based Jamaican, was given a two-year, J$20-million contract last January to serve as a consultant to the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), and by the end of the first year, she pocketed a shade under J$15...
Amid a spate of deadly attacks by criminals, and lawmakers in Parliament trading blame on Tuesday about which administration failed to tame the crime monster, Attorney General (AG) Marlene Malahoo Forte had a sobering message for her colleagues on...
The time has come for a culture shift in the local construction sector that would see public facilities being retrofitted with features to provide safe, easy access for persons with physical disabilities, an Opposition senator has suggested. The...
