The parliamentary opposition is demanding that Prime Minister Andrew Holness disclose whether he was aware of a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) in a settlement between the National Housing Trust (NHT) and a private developer which followed a failed...
An attempt by legislator Dwight Sibblies to block questions asked by Fitz Jackson of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development concerning boundary changes in Portmore, St Catherine, was shut down during Tuesday’s meeting of the...
More than 250,000 people of “prime working age” remain outside of Jamaica’s labour force, even as the country recorded a historic low unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent for the fourth quarter of 2023. The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN)...
The Pamela Monroe Ellis-led Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) is being urged to comb through the books of HEART/NSTA Trust amid allegations of nepotism and corruption at the skills-training institution. The call came during a People’s National...
Veteran trade unionist St Patrice Ennis has dismissed as “nonsense” an internal memo sent to staff of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) that warned against breaching the Official Secrets Act of 1911, following the leak of an air quality assessment...
An international assessment of Jamaican 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science has confirmed recent damning findings on the local education system while highlighting how far behind the students are compared with some from the most...
Acknowledging that the findings of a report it received confirming poor air quality at its head office was not immediately shared with staff, the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) has said it was not concealing the information. In a two-page internal...
An indoor air-quality assessment conducted at the head office of the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) between September and December last year has found that several departments at Myers Wharf are the hosts of noxious fumes. The revelation was made in...
Acknowledging that Jamaica has a plastic problem, Senator Matthew Samuda says a string of policies, including a national one on the environmentally sound management of single-use plastic products, is to be implemented this calendar year. Samuda,...
Backbencher Robert Montague has scoffed at proposals for longer prison sentences for juveniles, insisting any punishment short of hanging would be a “waste of time”. On Tuesday, Montague persisted with a stream of sotto voce comments of “hang dem...
Simultaneous claims by Jamaica’s two main political parties that they are ahead in the local government election race have been met with scepticism by political pundits who are demanding a release of internal poll results for proof. Dr Dayton...
Former president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Howard Mitchell has dismissed as absurd arguments for the importation of labour into Jamaica, asserting that wages across the island are woefully low. “I hear people talking about a...
In a scathing rebuke of Jamaica’s leadership and education system, renowned businessman Howard Mitchell says for more than a century the nation’s leaders have maintained a structure that is failing to produce literate and numerate graduates to...
Jamaica’s foremost anti-corruption body, the Integrity Commission (IC), has rejected as “misleading” and “false” suggestions by two senior public officials of overreach and entrapment in its verification process of statutory declarations....
There are concerns that a gap in legislation may have resulted in parliamentarians and public officials unknowingly and unofficially being investigated for possible illicit enrichment through the verification process of their statutory declarations...
The Jamaica 60 Independence celebrations cost taxpayers $403.6 million with the popular Grand Gala, held at the National Stadium, accounting for 31 per cent, or $129 million, of that spend. Over in Montego Bay, St James, the Western Gala was...
More than half of Jamaicans polled in a national survey believe that the circumstances of the nation’s most vulnerable are worsening even as the country tallies 10 consecutive quarters of economic growth. Fifty-eight per cent of the 1,015...
Parents whose children attend Promise Learning Centre say they were left stumped after the school, which caters to students with autism and learning disabilities, indicated that it would not reopen today for the new academic term. In a letter...
The 30-member strong Global Jamaica Diaspora Council (GJDC) and its youth arm have slammed Dr Rupert Francis, concluding that a letter he authored calling for protests against the Government within the diaspora is an attempt to “embarrass” the...
A marketing manager whose National Commercial Bank (NCB) account is linked with her mother’s says over $2 million was swiped by cyber criminals and a further $122,000 bilked from her credit card after she read a text message she said she received...
A letter sent to Audrey Marks, Jamaica’s ambassador to the United States, by members of the diaspora giving notice of a countrywide protest, has stirred unease among other Jamaicans domiciled overseas who believe that its contents could harm the...
Voter apathy has jumped significantly over the last three months, with 35 per cent of Jamaicans now indicating that they do not intend to cast a ballot in the next general election. The figure represents a 14.4 percentage point increase since...
Jamaica is headed towards “political doomsday”, one political scientist has concluded, after the majority of respondents in the latest Don Anderson poll indicated they did not vote in the 2020 general election. Fifty-eight per cent of Jamaicans...
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Metry Seaga says Prime Minister Andrew Holness must honour his word of bringing to Parliament legislation for fixed election dates, after 73 per...
Jamaicans say they must benefit personally or see the creation of more jobs if they are to participate in the next local government election constitutionally due in two months. That is according to the latest national survey conducted from...
