Principal Director of National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is calling for the urgent repeal of the Official Secrets Act, arguing that the more current Protected Disclosures Act, or whistleblower legislation, cannot succeed alongside the...
Executive Director of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) Dr Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie is accusing the authorities of paying lip service to important environmental issues such as repeated fires at the Riverton landfill, the nuisance they create in...
ECONOMIC SPECIALIST Professor Rosalea Hamilton says there are questions to be answered about whether Jamaica’s positive macroeconomic performance is facilitating the development of the country, pointing to a labour force where 70 per cent are...
MINISTER WITHOUT Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Matthew Samuda, says the Government has made significant infrastructure investments and honed its emergency response to minimise the impact of the drought season. “It...
WESTERN BUREAU: AT 10 years old, Amari McGibbon of Duncans, Trelawny, has a future in bee farming through his family’s honey production company Amari’s Honey. Since early childhood, Amari has been participating in the business his father named...
STEVE TAYLOR is one of the last remaining craftsmen in the rural Portland community of Mill Bank. What distinguishes him from the others is his utilisation of bamboo stalks to make craft items. Taylor was found hard at work on Tuesday afternoon...
Two weeks after the House of Representatives completed its debate on the Appropriations Act, more commonly known as the Budget, lawmakers on Tuesday approved an amendment to the statute, after being advised that the statutory expenditures were...
A woman believed to be a resident of Kintyre in St Andrew East Rural has backed the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in its filing of an election petition to void the results of two polling divisions in the recent local government elections,...
Passley Gardens, Portland: Relatives are 19-year-old Demario Jones, a second-year student of the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE) in Portland, are struggling to come to grips with his passing after he drowned on Tuesday. Jones,...
Commissioner of Police Dr Kevin Blake said the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has observed a concerning trend in road fatalities since 2024, prompting the police to intensify their strategic response. Blake was speaking on Tuesday at his...
Former Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has labelled plans by the new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) Dennis Gordon to request an audit into the operations of the municipality under his...
Excelsior Community College (ECC) Principal Philmore McCarty wants Jamaica to move away from the practice of labelling unemployed, unskilled and untrained youth as “at risk”, arguing that most of them simply lack opportunities. Although some of the...
A departure from “convention” in the establishment of committees at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) triggered a heated debate during its general meeting on Tuesday. The disagreement resulted in 15 Jamaica Labour Party (JLP...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE ST ANN Municipal Corporation is yet to conduct site visits after the full completion of the building phase at the luxury homes plagued by mould and structural issues at Pyramid Point in Ocho Rios. However, CEO Jennifer Brown-...
Eyes are trained on Gordon House today to see whether House Speaker Juliet Holness will withdraw a letter reprimanding former Clerk to the Houses Valrie Curtis, following mounting pressure for the parliamentary referee to apologise. A chorus of...
Jamaica’s new prison boss, Brigadier Radgh Mason, has declared that he will be “a bully” for results while emphasising that “the way to a safe society is ensuring that the persons who pass through these gates do not return”. “I’m a bully for...
House Speaker Juliet Holness is facing the heat over her failure to make public Attorney General (AG) Derrick McKoy’s opinion on the tabling of reports after his office washed its hands of the now contentious matter, disclosing that it cannot...
The father of a Jamaican man who was gunned down in Lauderdale Lakes in Florida on Sunday was reduced to tears yesterday as he remembered his youngest child and his reluctance to send him to the United States (US). Shakief Brown, 27, reportedly...
More than 100 enthusiasts gathered at the Department of Physics at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, on Monday for an unusual post-lunchtime viewing party for a partial solar eclipse. The rare celestial total solar eclipse made...
WESTERN BUREAU: Students of Cornwall College will return to school today for grief counselling after classes were suspended on Monday following the death of Spanish teacher Kamika Warren on the weekend. The 41-year-old Warren, a senior teacher who...
A call is being made for the Government to reevaluate how it provides funding to certain economic groups, amid revelations that just over $1 million of a near two-year-old $700-million loan programme for COVID-hit transport and entertainment...
For almost two years, Stacy Ann Hynes has been trying to get a shadow for her 11-year-old son, who has attention deficit disorder (ADD). Children with ADD have great difficulty concentrating. Shadows provide one-on-one support in classrooms to...
WESTERN BUREAU: Franklin Witter, state minister in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, has indicated that Jamaica managed to achieve its second-highest recorded domestic crop production level last year, with 779,254 tonnes of local...
For Jade La Croix, resident of the United States, flying to Jamaica for Carnival in 2024 “was more than a priority”. Like La Croix and thousands of other tourists, Jamaica was the place to be “post -Spring Break”. “It was a priority among my...
A security guard who was sentenced seven years ago to a total of eight months’ imprisonment for shooting and wounding a customer has lost his appeal against his convictions and sentences. The shooting incident took place at the office of the...
