There is growing opposition to a proposal from the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) to alter how Jamaicans celebrate their Emancipation and Independence holidays. The PSOJ is advocating for a single, extended weekend holiday period...
The Jamaican Government is asking for patience amid the unease surrounding the Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) fraud case, which impacted the accounts of more than 200 clients, including track legend Usain Bolt. The appeal follows a Gleaner...
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt is “shocked and disappointed” over the lack of transparency surrounding the investigation into billions of dollars defrauded from his and more than 30 other clients’ accounts at Stocks and Securities Limited (...
Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) has not acknowledged or responded to the Integrity Commission (IC), two weeks after the anti-corruption body referred an investigative report into the assets and financials of Prime Minister Andrew Holness for probe...
Pressure is mounting on United States lawmakers to plug the flow of guns to Jamaica and several other countries after a coalition of more than a dozen attorneys general penned a letter stressing the local blowback and the devastating impact on...
Newly appointed professor at The University of the West Indies, Tracy Robinson, argues that the Jamaican Constitution and several others across the Caribbean reflect a lingering British influence that hampers true independence. During her...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has raised concern about the executive office of the Financial Investigations Division (FID), which it says is currently without a chief technical director. The concern comes amid a referral from the...
Scandal-scarred Stocks & Securities Limited (SSL) has indicated that it is advanced in its plans to pay its clients. The announcement follows a multimillion-dollar fraud and irregularities uncovered at the investment company in January 2023 that ballooned past US$30 million, or J$4.7 billion, with more than 200 accounts impacted.
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...
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-...
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...
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....
In a matter of days, all eyes will be on Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) amid the referral of an investigative report into the statutory declarations of Prime Minister Andrew Holness. The report has...
Declaring that it is only a matter of time before some of Jamaica’s correctional facilities crumble, chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Corrections Arlington Turner says correctional officers and prisoners are existing in poor conditions behind...
Jamaica should have acted on the $5.5-billion offer from the United Kingdom’s Government for the construction of a new prison first disclosed in 2015, chairman of the Jamaica Federation of Corrections, Arlington Turner, believes. Turner, who has...
Placing the blame squarely at the feet of the Government, Jamaica Federation of Corrections Chairman Arlington Turner says correctional officers are not responsible for crimes hatched from behind bars. Turner, who has been at the union’s helm for...
The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it had initiated an investigation of the Jamaica Public Service’s (JPS) billing practices before a request from Energy Minister Daryl Vaz as the entity draws flak over its response to July’s high...
Energy Minister Daryl Vaz says the three government representatives on the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) board were unaware of the planned increase in customers’ bills, which the power company attributed to an increase in fuel charge and...
There are questions surrounding the length of time the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) relied on automotive diesel oil (ADO) for fuel, which it said caused the dramatic spike in customers’ bills following the passage of Hurricane Beryl. The...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) billed a community centre in St Elizabeth approximately $71,000 though the facility had electricity for only two days out of the billing cycle because Hurricane Beryl had ravaged the structure. That matter,...
The 5.3 magnitude earthquake that jolted Jamaica early yesterday morning has raised the antenna of one of the country’s foremost geologists, Professor Simon Mitchell, who says the latest tremor moved onto the Wagwater fault. The Wagwater fault,...
The blowback human rights watchdog Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has received after cautioning Prime Minister Andrew Holness against inciting state-sanctioned killings is as a result of Jamaicans being “segmentary factional”, social anthropologist Dr...
A modern maximum-security facility that could ensure the curtailing of crime plans that originate from behind bars may not be an immediate priority for the Andrew Holness administration, which contends that a new location may spur political...
There is uncertainty over whether the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) will bring a case against the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for breaching the OUR Act after the power company failed to meet the deadline for full electricity...
Former Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell says it is time the Jamaican Parliament increases fines under the Office of Utilities Regulation Act after a revelation that the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is facing a $2-million penalty if it does not meet...
