Mico University College President Dr Asburn Pinnock is advising the Government to regularise teacher migration by training and exporting the services as an income-earner, amid the challenges facing the sector. Pinnock’s proposal comes on the heels...
WITH THE monumental support of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) behind her, former People’s National Party (PNP) councillor Kari Douglas is expecting to come out on top in what should be a fierce contest against Jesse James Clarke for the...
The Government is moving to expand its ban on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam amid large corporations’ engagement in unethical but legal practices to sidestep restrictions while maintaining profits. The expansion is expected to come...
National Workers Union (NWU) General Secretary Granville Valentine says the Ministry of Education’s announcement that bursars will not be impacted by the new payroll system to be implemented in schools is a “smokescreen”. Valentine, in a Gleaner...
Construction on the St Thomas leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project has been a torment for several major distribution companies, significantly impacting logistics and other operational activities. But National Works Agency (NWA)...
Jamaican migrants rank among the top three groups of foreigners who use the United States military to gain citizenship, data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) indicate. Between 2017 and 2021, some 2,360 Jamaicans...
Education Minister Fayval Williams is being urged by the Association of Science Teachers of Jamaica (ASTJ) to commission an audit of public schools to fully understand the challenges facing administrators as scores of teachers walk off the job. In...
A 51-year-old St Andrew man who alerted the police to guns that gangsters had hidden in his yard, says he is being removed from the witness protection programme against his will. The man has also accused case officers of breaching his rights,...
President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Steven Golding, is lobbying the Holness administration to pursue reparation by imposing a special tax on foreigners from countries with a history of trading in chattel slavery. The...
A tailwind of excitement in Crofts Hill, northern Clarendon, over the discovery of presumed gold traces and pyrite is being met with caution by local and international companies that are insisting that nothing conclusive has come of exploratory...
St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament (MP) Lisa Hanna had become a lightning rod for disgruntled party supporters, forcing her to announce a premature departure from representational politics, a senior member of the Opposition People’s National...
Less than a year after moving into National Housing Trust (NHT)-constructed units at Twickenham Glades in St Catherine, residents say that the $14-million structures are falling apart. The Housing Trust presented the keys of 110 two-bedroom,...
The Jamaican Government is facing mounting pressure from one of the country’s most powerful private-sector groups for full disclosure of the details of funding for Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed bid to oust Commonwealth...
A 27-year-old Jamaican man who travelled to Mexico on Monday but who was denied entry by immigration officers has determined that he was wrongfully detained and sent back to the island as the number of Jamaicans being rejected by the North American...
The General Legal Council (GLC) is being hauled over the coals over its “unconscionable” policy of withholding the practising certificates of senior lawyers who are said to be facing “extreme” challenges in completing its Continuing Legal...
The family of Donna-Lee Donaldson, the 24-year-old social media influencer who investigators believe has been murdered by her police boyfriend Constable Noel Maitland, is pleading with the accused to disclose where her body has been disposed of. “...
Asserting that Jamaica’s “biggest” failure since Independence is the education sector, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the nation’s future lies in the services industry. Golding said the opening up of the education sector in the 1960s...
Days before the nation marks its 60th anniversary of Independence, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has acknowledged the failure of successive administrations to fully advance Jamaica’s interests. “Politicians have their fair share of blame...
The lawsuit filed by Fitz Jackson against Scotiabank over cheque-cashing fees could result in a drop in campaign contributions from financial institutions to prospective candidates of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP), former General...
More than a decade since gangsters challenged the security forces in defence of strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called the hiring of United States lobbyists to circumvent the extradition process his “...
Excelsior Community College (ECC) is facing the threat of a lawsuit following claims from several final-year nursing students that senior administrators have sabotaged their prospects of completing the Bachelor of Science nursing programme. The...
The Joint Select Committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill has been forced to seek advice from the Attorney General’s Chambers after concerns were raised about how the term ‘child’ was defined. The bill defines a child as a person who...
Financial investigators are beginning to untangle assets linked to the four men who were taken into custody during simultaneous anti-narcotics law enforcement operations in the Corporate Area and St James on Wednesday. The predawn raids carried...
The chilling discovery of the bodies of four men near Tivoli Gardens on Tuesday has deepened the wounds of Francine Tomlinson, whose 17-year-old son Omario Williams is believed to have met his demise under similar circumstances. Omario has been...
Leading motorsport driver Doug Gore has said that Sunday’s deadly drag-racing event at Vernamfield in Clarendon may not have been triggered by oil spill residue but could be linked to track preparation and the power of the car. Gore said that the...
