The urgency of addressing violence in schools was starkly highlighted yesterday during the launch of the Peace Gardens Competition at Kingston High School, where two student brawls erupted despite the presence of government officials from the...
Although there were concerns raised that some proprietors may have been unjustly increasing the prices of goods and services in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) said it has found no evidence to support this....
The Integrity Commission (IC) is pressing for “strict laws and guidance” that will clamp down on activities that amount to insider trading, amid reports of parliamentarians and public officers acquiring shares and equities in public corporations...
“It couldn’t get any better,” Tricia Daley declared in a Gleaner interview as she spoke about her daughter Tia Smith’s success in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations. While attending Campion College in St Andrew, Tia (as a private...
In an era where information is viewed as a very valuable commodity, Professor Christopher Charles is asserting that digital literacy is essential for individuals to be able to distinguish between what’s false and what’s accurate. Charles, a...
Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) Mickel Jackson says a complete restart of the constitutional reform process is unnecessary, but acknowledges that a new approach to citizen engagement is vital to the exercise. Her comments come...
Faced with an alarmingly high number of recurring sex cases on the court list each term, Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Jeremy Taylor, KC, believes policymakers are not paying sufficient attention to sexual offences. “We have...
As the Financial Investigations Division (FID) moves to analyse the Integrity Commission’s (IC) report on Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s statutory declarations, The Gleaner understands that his legal team plans to pursue a judicial review of the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has asked his attorneys to file a defamation suit against persons who make public statements that suggest that he misled the country about being under probe for illicit enrichment by the Integrity Commission. A two-...
Declaring that the people in Morant Bay are “crying for representation”, People’s National Party (PNP) councillors in the St Thomas Municipal Corporation have organised a series of protests to press Mayor Louis Chin to announce an overdue by-...
WESTERN BUREAU: The ongoing saga between St James High School Principal Joseph Williams and teachers accusing him of victimisation has churned out yet another chapter with a veteran teacher now accusing him of withholding her salary without...
Dr Lennox Rowe enjoys experimenting with Jamaican fruits and herbs as a pastime, but he never anticipated that people in his community of Ballard’s Valley, St Elizabeth, would be so interested in the wine he produces from them. Rowe, a 58-year-old...
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Floyd Green is calling on the engineering fraternity to craft farming solutions that can support the local sector amid the challenges of an ever-shifting climate landscape. “Now is the time for all of our...
Kerry-Ann Folkes, the supervisor at the New Kingston branch of the local Burger King franchise and who had suffered serious injuries in an explosion at the fast food outlet, has been transferred from the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) to the...
Media personality and attorney-at-law Khadine ‘Miss Kitty’ Wilkinson says a key issue surrounding Jamaica’s below-normal fertility rate is women choosing to forego or delay childbearing in favour of their careers and well-being. Wilkinson was...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:10 AM
Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP) Jeanette Calder has dismissed an assertion by a senior government lawmaker that the Integrity Commission does not have the power to refer an individual to the Financial...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2024 | 12:10 AM
The two men charged for last month’s massacre in Cherry Tree Lane, Clarendon, which left eight persons dead, were further remanded when they reappeared in the Gun Court Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court yesterday. The duo -...
The Major Investigation Division (MID) has reportedly taken over a probe surrounding the brazen double killing of a man and woman late Monday, which has left the community of Burke Road in Kingston on edge. The deceased have been identified as 48-...
Jamaica is now in the throes of a “crisis”, with its total fertility rate falling below replacement-population level, a matter that has grave implications for the country’s economy, experts in the policy, medical, and academic fields are warning....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jill Stewart MoBay City Run charity organisation, formerly the ‘MoBay City Run,’ yesterday, handed out $8 million in scholarship funds to students from several schools in western Jamaica, the first major scholarship donation...
As the nation prepares for another Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, one ongoing issue of concern for Sandra Samuels, president of Jamaica Reach to Recovery (JR2R), is that islandwide, the public sector lacks enough radiologists to conduct...
The development of a state-of-the-art, multipurpose facility by the Overseas Examinations Commission (OEC), scheduled for completion by 2026, is expected to bring about significant enhancements to the administration of examinations in Jamaica and...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2024 | 12:10 AM
Prime Minister Andrew Holness, while rejecting some of the startling findings of the investigation by the Integrity Commission into his statutory declarations, said yesterday that the report has cleared him of involvement in any illicit enrichment...
A construction company viewed as having a connection to then-permanent secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Colette Roberts Risden, has incurred a cost overrun of more than $23 million for works done at the ministry in 2019...
One of the defence lawyers in the multimillion-dollar fraud racket uncovered at Sagicor Bank in 2022 says the prosecution has no chance of success as there is no evidence linking the four women to conspiracy and fraud charges. “I am extremely...
