Consultants appear set to propose that four CARICOM institutions, including the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) and one dealing with aviation safety, be closed or reconstructed. It is the first major indication of what may end up in the highly...
The state-owned Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and its subsidiary, whose investments of over J$400 million of taxpayers’ money in FirstRock Capital Holdings were “irregular and lacked transparency”, continue to have shares in the private real...
The Holness administration appears confident that it will meet a new deadline of October 2023 to bring Jamaica’s anti-money laundering and countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime up to international standards and avoid being...
A dispute is brewing over whether the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) got permission from the right person to construct a cell tower on a plot of land in the community of Cocoa Walk in Cross Keys, southern Manchester. On May 5, Kerron Outar, through...
The battle between the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) and Harold Brady has now turned on whether the state entity is legally empowered to enforce an order for the disbarred attorney to pay over $110 million owed from a property transaction...
Professor of international business and a senior administrator at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Densil Williams, has been recommended to take over as principal of the financially troubled Mona campus in Jamaica, The Sunday Gleaner has...
A baby’s death two days after being born has triggered a mandatory requirement for all newborns at the Black River Hospital in St Elizabeth to be seen any day of the week by a member of the paediatric unit before being discharged. Shakera Morgan,...
The St Elizabeth police have confirmed that an armed policeman, who last month told a citizen that “Mi wi mash up yuh [expletive] eno” for video-recording him, is the subject of an internal probe. But Superintendent Kenneth Chin, who leads the...
“Mi wi mash up yuh [expletive] eno” was a policeman’s video-recorded ‘threat’ to a citizen now alleging abuse by the agent of the State following an incident at the Black River Primary and Infant School in St Elizabeth last week. Seconds later,...
For the past five months, the head of Jamaica’s primary business development agency has not been paid because of a contract-extension dispute that is grappling with questions about whether the Aubyn Hill-appointed board was pressured into reversing...
A developer who built 32 bedrooms instead of the approved 12 has lost a bid to have an adverse court ruling withdrawn on the basis of a settlement with the St Andrew residents who opposed the apartments' construction. Supreme Court judge Natalie...
Fraud-hit Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) was anticipating close to half a billion dollars in capital injection under a now seemingly failed deal that was likely to see...
In 2009, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) discovered that the now fraud-hit investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) had taken almost $200 million from ‘client accounts’ to finance three companies while “under severe financial...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has now acknowledged that his office received a report from the Financial Services Commission (FSC) on the fraud-hit Stocks...
Declaring that he is not in hiding, Industry Minister Aubyn Hill said he will “fulsomely” address Jamaicans on a series of controversies plaguing his ministry, including whether he retains confidence in an agency head who released substandard rice...
There are mixed signals on whether some brands of bottled coconut water and bottled water now on the market are safe to consume, because, almost three months after concerns were raised, a government watchdog is yet to provide information on...
A 2022 internal assessment at the agency mandated to protect Jamaicans from substandard products identified dozens of manufacturers who were producing blocks that did not meet the minimum requirement for bearing load. But with the Dr Lorice Edwards...
Details of possible collusion involving employees linked to an alleged oil-stealing ring at a China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) property, located at a Ferry industrial complex off the Mandela Highway in St Andrew, are emerging in the...
The Government has initiated a “comprehensive review” of Jamaica’s rice importation regime following a Sunday Gleaner probe that exposed the release of a substandard shipment of the popular staple linked to a company in which a Cabinet minister is...
An alleged forged will that stoked a simmering dispute between a father and his son over ‘dead leff’ land, and which pitted family members against each other, cast a long shadow over a triple killing that has rocked the Francis clan in Toll Gate,...
A gym and restaurant at 7 Hillcrest Avenue in St Andrew are to be closed by July 31 in a case of illegal development brought by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) against the operators and property owner. It is the latest...
Approximately $300 million was donated to Jamaica’s two main political parties for the 2020 general election, the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has confirmed, amid renewed calls for the law to change to reveal the names of contributors....
