The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) president, Dr Mark Nicely, is calling on educators, principals in particular, to view professional development...
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has indicated that more than 200 schools at the primary level are operating way below their capacity.Thwaites told The Gleaner yesterday that these schools have less than 100 students on...
THE ST Catherine Parish Council has been accused of squatting for several years on lands in Spanish Town belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) and resisting attempts to renegotiate a new lease...
Jamaica is among 37 countries worldwide said to be faced with extremely high levels of baseline water stress.The characterisation means that more than 80 per cent of the water available to agricultural, domestic, and industrial users is withdrawn...
South Western St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Everald Warmington remained defiant last night as he resisted a storm of disapproval from within and outside the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) of which he is a member.Western Portland MP Daryl Vaz said...
There has been a 30.8 per cent increase in the fee income of commercial banks since 2010, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has said.In an interim report to Parliament, the BOJ said fee income, not including fees for loan processing, now accounts for the larger...
Diane Edwards, president of Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), said there are enough funds available in the country to invest in projects related to the creation of a logistics hub. She said members of the private...
The leadership of the Jamaica Society for Industrial Security (JSIS) is warning that the cost of private security could be jacked up by yet another 40 per cent if the status of security guards is changed from subcontractors to employees.
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) has embarked on a mission to school its members in the purpose of the logistics hub being contemplated for Jamaica.That is the main aim of a two-day symposium it will host...
Instead of settling into the blocks and setting his eyes on the finish line ahead, former 100 metres world record holder spent much of yesterday on the witness stand ....
A schedule of mobile phone calls which was presented at the murder trial of entertainer Vybz Kartel disclosed that the day before Clive 'Lizard' Williams went missing, phone calls allegedly attributed to the entertainer...
Seven Jamaican high-school students will be given the chance to partake in a cultural-exchange programme in less than three weeks as Jamaica's cohort of US State Department youth ambassadors.The students will be involved...
WESTERN BUREAU: Against the background of a resurgence in local tourism investment, stopover arrivals out of the United Kingdom have bounced back, resulting in a growth of 4.3 per cent above last year's performance year...
The Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) has come out in full support Dr Karl Aiken's proposal for an extension of the lobster closed season because of continued pressure on the declining stock.In addition, the organisation is adamantly opposed to any...
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller will today huddle with her 20-member Cabinet on the second of a two-day retreat at Jamaica House, which is being used to discuss strategic priorities for the 2014-2015 fiscal year.The maintenance of fiscal stability,...
Chinese company to develop 30,000 affordable housing units - Approximately 30,000 affordable housing units are to be constructed across the island while creating employment for approximately 1,500 skilled and unskilled Jamaicans over the next...
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is poised this week to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars from the long-overdue divestment of several public assets in the Corporate Area and St Catherine. K.D. Knight, the UDC's chairman, said the corporation...
The road-safety education strategy of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is to be revamped as the Traffic Division aims to increase safety for road users.Deputy Superintendent Gary McKenzie, officer in charge of administration of the programme, said...
The jurors trying entertainer Vybz Kartel and his four co-accused yesterday heard the contents of text message evidence allegedly from Clive 'Lizard' Williams expressing fear that the deejay was going to kill him.Corporal Shawn Brown...
Lieutenant Commander George Overton has characterised the local private security industry that he leads as one in decline."The industry is one that, in sheer numbers, appears to be growing," said Overton said, the...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has given assurance that the ongoing delays in getting the retrofitting of some police stations across the island off the ground will not result in any cost overruns.Some $75 million has been set aside to retrofit five...
With 32 murders reported in the first 13 days of the year, the parliamentary Opposition has asserted that the Portia Simpson Miller administration is unconcerned with the issues of crime and violence."She is not concerned about speaking to the nation...
WESTERN BUREAU:Calling for the Caribbean to compete for primacy of the complete tourism product, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says the region's vision on competition is both narrow and clouded."There is...
Pastor of the Transformed Life Church (TLC) Dennis Fletcher yesterday urged churches to take on nation building as a biblical mission that would enable them to play a more meaningful, direct, and proactive role in Jamaica's restorative agenda.
The Seventh-Day Adventist East Jamaica Conference is on a mission to merge its spiritual outreach with charity.In front of scores of worshippers in Half-Way Tree Square yesterday, the church launched its Metro Mission 14 (MM14) initiative under the...
