ATTORNEY-AT-LAW HUGH Small who represented Prime Minister Bruce Golding at the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry on Wednesday insisted that he has no interest in filling the vacant position of attorney general....
ICD Group Chairman Joseph M. Matalon has been unanimously elected to a third term in office as president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). Matalon was re-elected at the PSOJ's council meeting on June 23 at the organisation's Hope Road offices...
THE LONG-ANTICIPATED Cabinet reshuffle has done nothing to reassure psychologist Christopher Charles that the quality of the governance structures in Jamaica will be improved. In fact, Charles, who specialises ...
Her great-great-grandmother had the longest reign in British history and she is four years short of the record. Strange coincidence as the story has come full circle because it was Queen Victoria, sovereign for 64 years, who 'liberated' us in 1838...
THE BEAMING faces of the children of Trench Town Primary School was all the proof one needed that they were more than happy for their newly refurbished and fully equipped resource room and playground....
With the business community and civil society seemingly finding their voice during the imbroglio over the extradition request for alleged drug dealer Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, Jamaicans now appear convinced that they have solid advice for the...
The policeman who is the alleged mastermind behind the theft of guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the police armoury will know today if he has a case to answer.Dirk Harrison, deputy director of public prosecutions, argued yesterday that...
PERMANENT SECRETARY in the Ministry of Justice, Robert Rainford, says he is awaiting a legal opinion from Solicitor General Douglas Leys to determine whether the jobs of five contract workers assigned to outgoing...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's failure to appoint his two first choices for attorney general has put him in a bind as he desperately seeks to find a replacement for Dorothy Lightbourne. Well-placed party insiders told ...
INFORMATION MINISTER Daryl Vaz on Wednesday indicated that the increase in the size of the Cabinet may have been influenced by "political considerations"...
The Government's decision to offer free tuition at the secondary level, plus other changes implemented in the education system over the past four years, has started to pay off in the polls.The Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has now...
Beleaguered but defiant, Sharon Hay-Webster, the member of parliament (MP) for South Central St Catherine, yesterday declared she was not daunted by a battering on her character by the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP)....
New attorney general next weekJamaica's new attorney general is to be named next week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said. Golding, who has accepted the recommendation in the Manatt-Dudus commission report that the attorney general be...
WITH THE Bruce Golding administration about to take the bell lap before the next general election, the new ministers who were yesterday sworn in during a ceremony at King's House have been told that they have little...
SIX MONTHS after removing the liquefied natural gas (LNG) project from the portfolio of then Energy Minister James Robertson, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has returned the responsibility of overseeing the project to the energy ministry....
Information Minister Daryl Vaz is defending Cabinet's decision to approve an average $10 increase in the toll rates for two legs of Highway 2000, arguing the cost to motorists could have been far greater.Vaz, who was speaking atthe weekly post-Cabinet...
Portia's party better economy manager, say most Jamaicans MOST JAMAICANS believe the economy was better handled under the last People's National Party (PNP) administration than the present Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government, despite many successes...
Jamaicans are split over the Government's decision to extend its borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the majority saying the state should tread carefully.A Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson national opinion poll has...
Defence lawyer Valerie Neita-Robertson submitted yesterday that the policeman who is the alleged mastermind behind the theft of guns and ammunition from the police armoury should be freed because of numerous discrepancies in the Crown's...
Karl Samuda, the veteran politician who rejected the energy and mining portfolio in the new-look Cabinet, is maintaining that while he has no remorse for his decision, his actions must not be viewed as a swipe at Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
The new ministers and junior minister sworn in yesterday, during a ceremony at King's House in St Andrew, have been warned that they have a short window of time in which to prove their worth before the next general election....
Just over six in every 10 Jamaicans experienced a slide in their economic situation last year, with most persons having to budget more or cut down on their spending.With consumers facing higher prices for food, electricity, transport and several other...
LINSTEAD, St Catherine: SIX-YEAR-OLD Aaron Ellis of Kidds Basic School in Deeside is the Kiwanis Club of Linstead 2011 Spelling Bee champion. He is also the first recipient of the inaugural Loretta Henry Scholarship valued at $5,000....
Senator Dorothy Lightbourne has been dumped from her post as justice minister and attorney general, making her the biggest casualty of the long-anticipated reshuffle of the Bruce Golding Cabinet. Lightbourne, a major character in the Manatt-Dudus saga, had not been expected....
BUFF BAY, Portland: MINISTER WITH responsibility for information, Daryl Vaz, has asserted that the opposition People's National Party (PNP) is engaged in a series of distractions aimed at gaining political mileage...
