More than three years after barring Jamaica’s House of Representatives from tabling a report detailing allegations of irregularities against him, Ian Hayles, the former member of parliament for Hanover Western, is demanding a public apology from...
Trade unionist John Levy is hoping to break down the resistance from operators in the global services sector to have union representation within their firms, pointing out that several government and private-sector entities have scuppered attempts...
Sixty years ago to the day, Victor Beek, the first commanding officer of the Jamaica Defence Force Air Wing and war veteran, had travelled to New York to participate in sporting competitions between Jamaicans living in the United States and their...
Jamaican computational biologist Camir Ricketts has been invited to attend the 12th Annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) meeting to be held at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in April 2020. Ricketts, the founder of Minds Of...
A list of suspected sugar-based manufacturing cheats has been turned over to the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) and the Revenue Protection Division (RPD), The Gleaner has learnt. That declaration was made yesterday by...
The All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA) has landed a deal with the Government to lease more than 3,600 acres of the land surrounding the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny to be sublet to cultivators affected by the closure of the...
Yallahs International Inc (YII) is set to meet with the Sugar Enterprise Team (SET) on Friday as the process to select the new owners of the Monymusk Sugar Factory in Clarendon begins. Yallahs, who lost its bid to purchase the Trelawny-based Long...
Veteran logistics expert Sonia Clarke Bowen says that customers’ failure to collect their barrels at the ports on a timely basis is causing a cargo logjam in the lead-up to Christmas. Clarke Bowen, managing director of the newly formed RSD Shipping...
