DECLARING THAT he will no longer "stay in the back seat" when it comes to the issue of procurement, Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell yesterday vowed to take a new policy to Cabinet next week to give the minister a defined role in the process...
MORANT BAY, St Thomas:MINISTER OF Health Dr Fenton Ferguson has said he plans to tackle prime time alcohol advertisements.Addressing the St Thomas Lay Magistrates' Association parish church service at the Church of the First Born...
New date set for 'Bunny' Francis murder trial - The murder trial of the four men charged with killing of prominent Kingston businessman, Roderick 'Bunny' Francis, failed to start in the Home Circuit Court yesterday....
IT APPEARS that Leon Thomas, the acting mayor of Portmore, will remain in that position until local government elections due next year."There is a concurrence between the Government and the Opposition that, given that the local elections are due in less...
FORMER State Finance Minister Fitz Jackson has indicated he is not against the withdrawal tax proposed by Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips, but objects to account holders paying it."What I object to is the structure...
A warning was issued yesterday by Senior Puisne Judge Gloria Smith that no further adjournment would be granted to the prosecution in the murder trial of three men and a woman whose case has been on the Home Circuit Court...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will make her contribution to the 2014-2015 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives today, where she will likely outline a laundry list of promises for this legislative year.Looking back at her contribution to...
THE JAMAICAN Government is contemplating making an approach to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to ask that it respond favourably to a loan request from Energy World...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) has settled one of the lawsuits against it in full while a payment plan has been agreed upon to honour the outstanding amount in a second claim.Attorney-at-law for the JUTC...
JAMAICA's Financial Investigations Division (FID) has revealed that it is now reviewing its strategies aimed at tackling the deadly lottery scam, after a report by the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) showed that American citizens were...
THE COUNTRY'S Financial Investigations Division (FID) is now holding on to property and other assets valued at $1.23 billion, which it believes were acquired through the ill-gotten wealth of criminals over the last six...
WESTERN BUREAU:John Lynch, the man credited with leading the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) when the country recorded its first-time two millionth stopover visitor arrivals in 2013, will demit office at the end ...
HORACE DALLEY, the minister with responsibility for the public service in the Ministry of Finance, has indicated that he will be meeting this week with other ministry officials and technical and financial groups in the...
D-Day for NSWMA The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) will know what action will be taken against it today for its failure to comply with an ultimatum by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) last week.NEPA had...
THE POLICE High Command has ordered an investigation into the circumstances under which two men, including one accused of murder, escaped from the high-security Horizon Adult Remand Correctional Centre in St Andrew yesterday.The two escapees are...
OPPOSITION LEADER Andrew Holness has suggested that the Government give the Church authority to operate the majority of the places of safety across the island.However, the head of one church group has said that such a proposal must be seriously...
WESTERN BUREAU:MAYOR OF Montego Bay and Chairman of the St James Parish Council, Councillor Glendon Harris, has said he is hoping that the parish will benefit from the $30.6 million allocated in the 2014-2015 Budget to improve...
AS THE debate continues to rage over the Government's proposals to raise $6.7 billion in additional taxes this fiscal year, one tax expert has recommended that Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) exercise its powers to get...
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGIST and lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Christopher Charles, has declared that contrary to popular belief, a political leader does not need ...
An international religious group is set to launch an initiative, which, it says, is designed to ignite an entrepreneurial fire and to launch a faith-based entrepreneurs' movement for the economic recovery of Jamaica and other countries.
The police have indicated that several roads will be closed in the Corporate Area for short periods today to facilitate the annual Bacchanal Jamaica Road March.
Member of Parliament for Western St Mary Joylan Silvera has taken issue with what he says is the Government's fragmented approach to agricultural services.
More than 40 years after another People's National Party (PNP) administration put 14 per cent of the idle land across Jamaica into the hands of small farmers, Member of Parliament for Central St Mary...
