A SENIOR member of the Government has declared that Jamaica erred when it signed the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).Investment, Industry and Trade...
DECLARING THAT Jamaica should not allow itself to be dictated to by outside forces, government Senator K.D. Knight said the matter of sovereignty should be at the forefront in the debate on ganja.
Claims and counterclaims are being thrown around in the controversy surrounding a sex-education manual which allegedly was wrongfully delivered in some children's home across the island.
A WOMAN who threatened to leap to her death from the Edgewater Bridge in Portmore, St Catherine, Thursday night, was persuaded by residents to choose life. She was later brought to safety.
They say 'seeing is believing', but for 46-year-old Betsy Bennett, who became visually impaired (being blind in one eye and the other giving minimal vision) three years ago as a result of a battle with hypertension and diabetes for over 16 years, feeling is believing.
WHEN ERICA Dennis of south St Elizabeth was in class at Hampton School in the said parish, a teacher told the students the Tainos in Jamaica were dead. There she was being told that she, a Jamaican Taino, was extinct.
The case against three police personnel who are facing corruption charges related to the unlawful release of a prisoner from custody in 2013, was yesterday deferred to July 25, following the cops' appearance in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.
Weariness and frustration occupied the visage of 70-year-old gravedigger Samuel Cunningham, as he recounted tales of the graves he has dug for well-known Jamaicans and the scant regard with which ...
The Government is steering clear of developments concerning the sudden retirement of Police Commissioner Owen Ellington.In the latest development, The Gleaner reported yesterday that it appeared that the Government may have been forced to ensure that...
MEMBER OF Parliament for North East St Elizabeth Raymond Pryce wants a parliamentary committee to begin deliberations on his private member's motion regarding the registration and disclosure of sources of funding by civil society and lobby groups....
Long before Water, Environment and Climate Change Minister Robert Pickersgill's announcement on Wednesday that Jamaica's water resources were at crisis level, farmers in the country's breadbasket parish of St Elizabeth were reeling from...
THE COUNTRY'S chief prosecutor has confirmed that she has shot down a request from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) to commence proceedings to have a Jamaican ex-policeman alleged to have been part...
With the paradigm shift from what had once traditionally been held as a family, discussions are now taking place on the international front to move the world towards recognising same-sex unions as part...
The average household loses 10 per cent of water due to leaks and damaged facilities.That is the concern expressed by public relations manager at the National Water Commission (NWC), Charles Buchanan, who urged citizens ...
The roar from the engine of a water-pressure hose loudens as yet another car rolls into a busy St Andrew car wash. It is Thursday and the mid-afternoon sun still showed no signs of repenting for its part in producing the hottest May ever recorded.
FINANCE MINISTER Dr Peter Phillips said the contribution from head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde to the discussion on the devaluation of the Jamaican dollar could lead to an "honest debate"...
WESTERN BUREAU:The three policemen, who allegedly took money amounting to over $332,000 from a motorist in exchange for not prosecuting him, last month, were offered bail when they appeared in the Montego Bay Resident...
Hit hard by the severity of pressures being applied by significant international partners, the Portia Simpson Miller administration might have been forced to ensure that Police Commissioner Owen Ellington be immediately stripped of his position...
Jamaica is being lauded for the steps being taken to protect the nation's children from all forms of violence. However, the country is being told it has a long way to go to eliminate the culture of abuse that has become somewhat entrenched.
International pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is facing a $1 billion bill in compensation and legal costs to local distributors Lasco and Medimpex in a dispute over a blood-pressure medication, has lost its appeal to...
Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Robert Pickersgill said in the House of Representatives yesterday that the below-average rainfall being experienced and the impact it has had on water-distribution...
Commissioner Owen Ellington's sudden departure from the police force is still causing a lot of brows to be raised, and many Jamaicans think that both he and Minister of National Security Peter Bunting are less than honest in the reasons they have given for his flight from the commissioner's chair.
Following A pronouncement by the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) that it would not support any policy that allowed firearms on school compounds, director of security and safety at the Ministry of Education, Sergeant...
October 6 has been set for the hearing into the employment dispute between Professor Brendan Bain and the University of the West Indies (UWI) in the Supreme Court.Bain is challenging the May decision of the UWI to terminate his contract as director of...
