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...
The former president of Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Dr Herbert Thompson has blamed the lack of support from the institution's board of directors for his sudden resignation.Singling out NCU board Chairman Everette Brown, Thompson said in the days...
THIRD-TERM Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster has bashed the People's National Party (PNP), declaring that it was not allowing her due process in her...
The agriculture ministry will break ground in partnering with two private-sector companies for today's round of farmers' markets which will see Michi Supercenter, located along Washington Boulevard in St Andrew...
SURPRISED! THAT was what Jamaica-born Yonnicka Smith felt when she found out that she was the 2011 symbolic degree recipient for academic excellence from the School of Health Professions at the Long Island University ...
TULLOCH, St Catherine: THE HONEY Bun School Dayz competition has left a sweet taste in the mouths of the staff and students of Tulloch Primary School in Knollis, St Catherine. The institution pocketed the first prize of three computers...
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: USERS OF the Falmouth to Wakefield roadway in Trelawny, which was the scene of two roadblocks to protests against its poor condition, are to get a respite, as temporary patching is currently under way.Thirteen million dollars is being...
THE GROUNDS ofthe Rural Agricultural Development Authority's (RADA) parish office at 23 Caledonia Road, Mandeville, Manchester, will be buzzing with queen bees, worker bees, lazy drones, lovers of bees and their products as the Manchester Bee Farmers' Association...
The United States Embassy in Kingston has finally responded to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's allegation that its officials were, among other things, "belligerent and aggressive" in diplomatic talks relating to the extradition request for accused drug...
COME MID-AUGUST, the 79 wards at the Salvation Army Hanbury Home for Children in Kendal, Manchester, should be dining in comfort, upon completion of expansion works on the institution's dining room and kitchen being undertaken by DHL Express...
Concerns have been quite properly raised about the effects on competition - and on consumers - of the announced buyout of Claro Jamaica by Digicel. When the Government of the day moved to break the Cable & Wireless monopoly and to open up ...
