TRANSPORT MINISTER Mike Henry yesterday launched a broadside at the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) saying the agency was attempting to derail the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP). Henry, who is also chairman of the governing...
The United States (US) Department of State has recommended that the Jamaican Government bring the penalties for human trafficking in line with more serious criminal offences.The proposal was contained in the State Department's 2011 Trafficking in...
WITH JAMAICA getting ready to celebrate 50 years of political independence from the United Kingdom next year, most Jamaicans are of the view that the country would have been better off had it remained a colony of Britain....
The three public-sector groups which most recently agreed to the Government's latest wage-increase offer have opted to delay signing as they express solidarity with the Police Federation.During a joint press conference yesterday, the Jamaica Teachers'...
The Trafigura case, in which executive members of the People's National Party (PNP) - including its leader, Portia Simpson Miller - have been ordered by the Supreme Court to answer questions under oath in relation...
THE OPPOSITION People's National Party (PNP) is reportedly readying its electoral machinery in South Central St Catherine in anticipation of a possible by-election in the constituency. It has remained silent, however...
Even as mathematics continues to be seen as one of the most challenging subjects, it is a walk-over for Jean-Piérre Samuels of Holy Family Primary School in Kingston, who scored a perfect 100 per cent in the subject in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).
WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD BOY, Rhyan Strachan, and Janelle Chambers, head girl, emerged as the top performers in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) for Chetwood Memorial Primary in Montego Bay, getting identical averages...
EDUCATION MINISTER Andrew Holness yesterday said the Government would be instituting a national school-leaving certificate which would set minimum standards for graduation from secondary schools. Holness, who was guest...
With interest rates at their lowest level in years, crime trending down, and job prospects improving in some areas, the Golding administration has managed to convince more Jamaicans that the country is moving in the right direction, but the vast...
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller says the Government owes the people of Jamaica an explanation about the country's standing in relation to two quarterly performance tests under the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....
CHAIRMAN OF the Island Special Constabulary Force Association, St George Jack-son, has warned of actions by his members that could derail policy-driven programmes if Government continues to treat it employees with scant regard....
WITH THREE kidnappings taking place in the space of seven days recently, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has sent a strong warning to criminals not to attempt the introduction of that sort of crime to the country."...
Children and adults last Friday journeyed across the once-forbidden five borders in St Andrew to converge on the August Town Community Centre to celebrate the third anniversary of the signing of a peace...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: STACEY-ANNE STEWART-Swaby, mother of Brittney Anderson, who died in April, is still trying to come to grips with the fact that her daughter will not be around to don her Bishop Gibson High School uniform come September....
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR YP Seaton & Associates has accused the contractor general of defaming the good name of the company and its principal, Y.P. Seaton. In a strongly worded press statement dated Friday, June 24, Seaton & Associates said the Greg Christie-led Office...
CONVICTED CRIMINALS in Jamaica are apparently better fed than the presumably 'innocent until proven guilty' persons in police lock-ups across the island. A menu list provided by the Department of Correctional Services claims that prisoners are not given the same meals every day for breakfast, dinner, or supper.
THE PRESENT Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration is still seen by Jamaicans as the more corrupt of the two major political parties, but the number of people who don't trust Bruce Golding and his team has declined dramatically since last year.
Members of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica, Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), and the Medical Doctors' Association yesterday voted to accept the terms of a wage offer from the Government.
JUST FIVE months shy of the 19th anniversary of a preventable tragedy that snuffed out the lives of three detainees at the Constant Spring police lock-up, and almost two weeks after a Mandeville jailbreak, the result of overcrowding, the perennial problem of overcrowded jail cells looms large as a public-health and social challenge.
Hundreds of persons held in overcrowded police lock-ups across the island are battling for space and food as the Government of Jamaica pays a paltry $200 per day to feed each person held in a lock-up.
THE NUMBER of Jamaicans who would want to see the army called out more often to assist in the fight against crime has decreased when compared with last year, the latest Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll has found.
On May 21, Manal Al-Sharif, 32, was arrested in Saudi Arabia for the second time for driving a vehicle. This sparked international outrage and led to the 'Women2Drive' campaign that had 50 Saudi women risking arrest by taking to the streets in a 'mass drive' on June 17.
THE SENATE yesterday passed with four amendments the Attestation of Instruments (Facilities) Act, which gives limited powers of justices of the peace to members of parliament.
