With just weeks left within which the next general election is due to be announced, much-anticipated party standings put the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in a close race as the PNP holds a three...
Vendor selection and system implementation for the roll-out of the government’s Electronic Titling (E-Titling) programme is expected by 2027-2028, following legislative amendments to the Registration of Titles Act. The reflects the Government’s...
Riding on one of the most successful planks of People’s National Party (PNP) administrations since the 1970s, Opposition Leader Mark Golding has outlined a slew of benefits he proposes to put in place for prospective homeowners, and public sector...
Another effort is being promised to tackle the decades-old problem of children in the education system, especially at the early childhood level, not being ready to enter primary school and those circumstances resulting in spiralling numbers of...
The Health and Wellness Ministries of Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church, in partnership with the renowned Uchee Pines Lifestyle Institute of Alabama in the United States (US), is set to host a special symposium aimed at teaching...
Renowned educator Grace Baston, a former principal of Campion College, is leading the charge to transform 99.6 per cent of the grade-seven cohort at Holy Trinity High School, moving them from non-readers and well below grade level readers to...
The Government’s push to grant Portmore parish status, which could move a step closer to becoming law at today’s sitting of the House of Representatives, will not affect the voters’ list to be produced by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) by...
Nearly four years after the enactment of the Data Protection Act (DPA) in Jamaica, the island’s data protection regime remains primarily functional at just the national level and is not yet as localised as it would have been expected to be by now....
Two days after he apologised for an embarrassing data-protection breach in which station diaries containing information related to cases investigated by the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA) were exposed,...
It’s hard to tell when very small business operators get a financial bump in the usually busy Christmas season, and it’s rare for them to say business is good. Last week was no different as speaking with The Gleaner after Christmas last week, there...
Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley delivered a masterful lecture on regional resilience, unity, shared histories, and developmental goals in her keynote address marking the 100th anniversary of the birth former Prime Minister Michael Manley on...
Work is well advanced to restore Pratville Primary School in Manchester for the resumption of on-site classes in January 2025. The school was severely damaged by Hurricane Beryl in July, forcing students and teachers to relocate to temporary...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness came to yesterday’s 81st annual conference of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with a warehouse of giveaways, leaving most supporters with wide smiles as they heard of a coming reduction on electricity bills, $20,000 for...
Time has run out for the announcement of a by-election for the Morant Bay division of the St Thomas Municipal Corporation, meaning there has been a breach of the 90-day extension received through Parliament in July. The extension, which The...
Shortly after Cuba was plunged into darkness this month, as its entire electricity system failed, sections of the country were severely impacted by the rains from Hurricane Oscar. These events marked the continued worsening of conditions for a...
In the blistering heat of yesterday, inside and outside the National Arena, the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 86th Annual Conference provided political moments that could become talking points for days, some in support and others objecting. The...
The chair he occupied and the office he shared with his team of investigators and personal assistants in Kingston is now vacant as of midnight Saturday night, but retired Deputy Police Commissioner (DCP) Fitz Bailey’s presence looms large in the...
Cislyn Gregory readied her four grandchildren and headed to Cross Keys last Tuesday to take advantage of Shelly-Ann Richmond’s back-to-school treat, which was organised for children from the south Manchester district and surrounding areas. Gregory’...
Three critical stakeholders in education are raising concerns about the Government’s failure to consult with them about the latest plans to import teachers from Ghana and India. The concerns are being raised, even as the stakeholders accept that...
One of 59 Haitian orphans, a boy with severe hydrocephalus and who had surgery performed at the Bustamante Children’s Hospital (BCH) in May, is no longer in the custody and care of the Mustard Seed Communities (MSC), the facility’s chief executive...
In a desperate call to stakeholders in the education sector, and other interest groups, immediate past president of the Guidance Counsellors Association of Jamaica Angelica Dalrymple says urgent and radical interventions are needed to curb the...
If the Andrew Holness administration enacts legislation making Portmore a parish without direct consultation with its residents, such a law will be short-lived and will be overturned within 100 days of a People’s National Party (PNP) administration...
When The Gleaner on September 14, 2022 published an article titled, ‘There’s gold in them hills’, referencing the Canadian miners finding traces of gold and copper in their first drill hole in Bellas Gate, St Catherine, little did they know that a...
FOUR OF Jamaica’s minor political parties yesterday joined forces to form the Jamaica Unity Alliance (JUA), a movement on a mission to broaden the discourse around constitutional reform and the country’s intention to sever relationships with the...
Flames of orange lit the mid-morning sky from Collie Smith Drive in St Andrew South to the nomination centre on Lyndhurst Road, with People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding leading a throng of supporters and their two candidates for...
