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...
Despite the massive road-improvement programme benefiting the underdeveloped parish of St Thomas, Morant Bay Mayor Hubert Williams says the Government’s disregard for the residents and their livelihoods during the work process has caused...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters turned up in massive numbers for yesterday’s public session of the party’s 80th anniversary conference, to show support for the party ahead of looming local government elections which must be held on or before...
Winston Spaulding, the former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) minister of national security and justice who served in the Edward Seaga administration (1980-1986), was remembered in Parliament for his legal acumen and dedication to country following...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is blaming the education ministry’s failure to respond to requests for information for the eventual collapse of surcharge action against Dr Grace McLean. In October 2021, the Auditor General's Department (AuGD)...
CLAIMS BY the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that the Government has instituted a new audio system in Parliament to gag its members have been dismissed by Information Minister Robert Morgan. Morgan yesterday refuted the claims by the...
Nearly an hour into the start of the public session of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 85th annual conference, organisers were crestfallen, and many faces reflected worry at the small numbers in the arena, with more empty chairs than bodies....
The man who sparked controversy when he was released from chains by People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding during a constituency conference on Sunday is unrepentant about his role in the affair. Claude ‘Big Stone’ Sinclair instead...
THE POLITICAL fallout over the selection of Ian Hayles as the People’s National Party's (PNP) standard-bearer in Westmoreland Western has taken another turn as at least two former PNP, now Independent, councillors intend to join their Jamaica...
WHEN PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding addresses his party’s 85th annual conference this weekend, he will be fully aware of what is at stake. The occasion will also present for the PNP what is its largest mass gathering before...
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson is urging public officials to dial back the intense political rhetoric and character assassinations in the public space, slamming some utterances as “disgraceful”. In a release on Thursday, Patterson, who...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has called for Jamaicans to wake up and take stock of the way the country is being governed, accusing the Andrew Holness administration of ruling by authoritarian arrogance. During a press conference at...
With significant advancements in the country’s electoral system, it would take massive collusion among electoral officers as well as the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) and opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) indoor and outdoor agents to...
A former Crown counsel, one of at least 40 to have left the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) in the last five years, has sided with former colleagues who withdrew their services from the court system yesterday. The attorney...
Days of deliberations between the five unions representing workers at the state-operated National Water Commission (NWC) and management have borne fruit with an agreement yesterday that has ended the threat of industrial action which could have...
THE FIVE unions representing workers at the National Water Commission (NWC), and the company’s management, have reached an agreement which has averted threats of industrial action in heat-parched Jamaica and especially the Corporate Area which is...
