The Media Association Jamaica (MAJ) is again vowing to "vigorously" push for changes to the new Defamation Act that would address what it believes are inadequacies in the legislation.
Jamaica is expected to benefit significantly from the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) continued implementation of its Community Empowerment and Transformation Project (COMET), over the next five years, at a cost of $1.4 billion (US$13 million).
Seven cops on corruption charges for court July 16 - The case against the seven policemen who allegedly solicited money from a St James businessman in exchange ...
WESTERN BUREAU: DENNIS HICKEY, executive director of the Tourism Product Development Company (TDPCo), has said the tourism ministry's language skills training programme is an asset to the tourism product as Jamaica...
YVONNE CLARKE, interim managing director of the National Education Trust (NET), has indicated that the funds budgeted for the creation and maintenance of school...
WESTERN BUREAU:The murder case against Ivan Taylor, the man charged with the 2012 murder of Trinidadian schoolteacher Michelle Coudray-Greaves, continued yesterday in the St James Circuit Court, with expert testimony from a telecommunications...
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen is appealing to the Church to employ a united approach in tackling the decay in morals and discipline within society....
Stephen Wedderburn, the man who coordinated the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project which was aborted by the Portia Simpson Miller-led Government, has declared that Energy World International (EWI) must break its silence on the baseload energy project...
The Supreme Court has struck out the application by the Special Constabulary Force Association (SCFA), which was seeking to challenge the merger of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).Yesterday's ruling...
Energy expert Dr Carlton Davis has joined former head of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) Winston Hay, in saying the regulator should never have been involved in the selection of the bidder for the baseload...
Steve Hanke, professor of applied economics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is recommending the creation of a currency board and the adoption of the United States dollar as solutions to Jamaica's economic...
Despite the reported setback suffered by the island's hard-working Financial Investigations Division (FID) by the High Court's refusal of its application for certain restraint orders related to collecting of nearly $1 billion from convicted drug dealers...
The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wants Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to act immediately upon her return to the island later today, in relation to the growing controversy regarding Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell's handling...
The number of babies being born to girls under 15 years old in Jamaica has led to a call for citizens to break their silence and demand greater care for the nation's children.Although there is a downward trend...
The Court of Appeal has cleared the way for the Government to terminate the employment of Viralee Latibeaudiere as commissioner of Tax Administration Jamaica...
CROOKED RIVER, Clarendon:OSBOURNE STERN has been a small-business proprietor in Crooked River, Clarendon, for as long as he can remember and has been selling The Gleaner for 64 years.Stern said The Gleaner was already being sold in Crooked...
MANDEVIILE, Manchester: IMAGINE HAVING to leave the urban environs of your house where newspapers were delivered promptly, to go to the rural area where it seemed civilisation was yet to reach and news timeliness was just...
The Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ) has declared that its members strictly adhere to the guidelines in the Code of Advertising Practice and ensures responsible commercial communication for all clients and products including alcoholic...
WESTERN BUREAU: The much-anticipated trial of Ivan Taylor, the man charged with the 2012 murder of Trinidadian school-teacher Michelle Coudray-Greaves, began in the St James Circuit Court yesterday with four witnesses...
ENERGY WORLD International (EWI), the favoured company to undertake the baseload project to supply power to the national grid, could see its power plants and other related assets sold for 75 per cent of value ...
The International Misery Index has ranked Jamaica as the fifth most miserable country in the world, with the interest rate as the source of the nation's misery.The Misery Index was first developed by prominent economist Arthur...
A multipurpose business and recreational centre for workers at the Montego Bay Free Zone will be launched on Friday, May 2.With an investment of US$21,000 (J$2.3 million), Columbus Communications Jamaica Limited, operators of the Flow and Columbus...
THE JAMAICA Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has said it has no difficulty going to court to defend itself in light of a recent disclosure by attorney-at-law High Wildman who is representing private operators who have grouses...
