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Published:Wednesday | April 19, 2023 | 1:48 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Several “red flags” in the spending of $619 million between June 2020 and November 2021 by the Ministry of Health...

Published:Saturday | April 1, 2023 | 1:19 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

TWO SENIOR union leaders who sit on opposite sides of the parliamentary divide in the Upper House have closed ranks on a single issue to send a strong message to the ruling administration. Opposition Senator Lambert Brown and his Government...

Published:Saturday | April 1, 2023 | 1:13 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

ACTING LEADER of Opposition Business in the Senate, Donna Scott-Mottley, has indicated that if a concerted effort is not made to tackle the scourge of money laundering in Jamaica, the country’s democratic process could be hijacked by dirty money....

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2023 | 1:23 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has called for an inquiry into the tabling of an Integrity Commission (IC) investigation report which referred Prime Minister Andrew Holness to the agency’s director of corruption prosecution for an alleged conflict of...

Published:Thursday | March 30, 2023 | 1:17 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Some members of the Integrity Commission (IC) Oversight Committee on Thursday rushed to the defence of an employee of the anti-corruption body after controversial government lawmaker Everald Warmington accused him of being politically exposed. The...

Published:Wednesday | March 29, 2023 | 1:43 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Despite the severe impact of Zika and chikungunya viruses on Jamaica, the Ministry of Health...

Published:Wednesday | March 29, 2023 | 1:36 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has pushed back against a torrent of criticism slamming him for purportedly playing the race card when he referred to Opposition Leader Mark Golding as “Massa Mark” in Parliament last week. At...

Published:Tuesday | March 28, 2023 | 1:27 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Political commentator and attorney-at-law Dr Paul Ashley believes that Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke will today withdraw his controversial “Massa Mark” slur, which was aimed at Opposition Leader Mark Golding in Gordon...

Published:Wednesday | March 22, 2023 | 1:38 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple Philibert appears to be on a collision course with St Andrew South Western Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Angela Brown Burke as the latter faces possible sanction next week after telling a government minister to “shut...

Published:Friday | March 17, 2023 | 1:29 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Prospective homeowners who are contributors to the National Housing Trust (NHT) will, in a matter of months, be able to benefit from a 15 per cent increase in the loan limit offered by the agency. Effective July 1, 2023, the NHT will increase the...

Published:Wednesday | March 15, 2023 | 1:36 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the finance minister’s heralding of “no new taxes” in his opening Budget Debate presentation last week rang hollow, noting that over fiscal years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023, the Government raked in an additional $...

Published:Saturday | March 11, 2023 | 12:54 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Julian Robinson, the opposition spokesman on finance, has accused the Government of making the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) unattractive and unviable. He said that urgent action was needed to rescue the entity from crumbling. Making...

Published:Friday | March 10, 2023 | 1:25 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson has urged the Government to revise the $580 weekly payment to beneficiaries under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), which he says can barely fund the nutritional needs...

Published:Wednesday | March 8, 2023 | 1:38 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

The Government is taking steps to revitalise the second-sale used car market in Jamaica providing more options for consumers selling their vehicles. Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday announced proposed policy...

Published:Wednesday | March 8, 2023 | 1:30 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

While conceding that critical public sector groups, including the police, teachers, and doctors, deserve more under the compensation restructuring exercise, Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke on Tuesday told them plainly in...

Published:Tuesday | March 7, 2023 | 1:17 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

With the point-to-point inflation rate for December 2022 closing at 9.4 per cent for the calendar year as reported by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), one category of low-income earners is urging Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to...

Published:Thursday | March 2, 2023 | 1:21 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Sharp competition in the job market has been cited by Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke as the primary reason for the Statistical Institute of Jamaica’s (STATIN) inability to recruit the full complement of workers to carry out...

Published:Wednesday | February 22, 2023 | 1:31 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

A declaration by Dr Andrew Wheatley, the member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine East Central, that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is prepared for local government elections was met with a chorus of “call it” from the parliamentary Opposition...

Published:Friday | February 17, 2023 | 6:55 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Senior Cabinet minister Delroy Chuck is calling for swift action against the “responsible” person(s) at the Integrity Commission (IC) who caused the tabling of a report referring Prime Minister Andrew Holness for a corruption probe despite having...

Published:Thursday | February 16, 2023 | 1:27 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

Social Development Commission (SDC) Executive Director Dr Dwayne Vernon has sought to distance his organisation from involvement in the procurement of the services of Westcon Construction Limited to carry out works in Prime Minister Andrew Holness...

Published:Wednesday | February 15, 2023 | 1:41 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

The 25,000-strong Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has signalled that it will not be “strong-armed” by the Government into signing the compensation restructuring agreement by the end of the current fiscal year in March. JTA President La Sonja...

Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2023 | 2:17 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

The Government has pledged to formally establish the Constitutional Reform Committee at the end of the next round of Vale Royal talks expected to be convened before the end of February. At present, there is a stalemate between the Government and...

Published:Friday | February 3, 2023 | 1:02 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

The slashing of the Government’s Agricultural Modernisation Programme by $150 million has angered St Ann South East Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna, who lambasted the administration Wednesday for treating small farmers with scant regard. The...

Published:Friday | January 27, 2023 | 1:22 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

With a window of opportunity for delinquent motorists to settle unpaid traffic tickets with the courts set to close next Tuesday, the parliamentary Opposition is suggesting that the period of amnesty be extended to April 30. Legislation to allow...

Published:Thursday | January 19, 2023 | 1:14 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Parliamentary Reporter

The controversial pre-charge clause in the proposed Bail Act 2022 will be doomed to face fierce court challenges on its constitutionality, a senior oppposition member of a parliamentary review committee has warned. “We have listened carefully to...

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