It has been 602 days since a member of the legislature urged his colleagues in the House of Representatives to reveal their citizenship status. Now, Ronald Thwaites wants the issue to be accelerated and dealt with ahead of the next general election....
TRINIDAD, Port of Spain (CMC): Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says the state-owned Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT), as well as the Irish-owned Digicel, were "commanded" to open their facilities so that the Security...
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Jamaican who United States prosecutors have labelled an international drug lord, returns to a New York court today for a pretrial hearing. Coke, who is facing charges of drug...
The Gleaner Company Limited, for the nine-month period ending September 30, 2010, posted a profit of $651 million before tax, up from $36 million last year.
What can be done to lower crime in St Thomas? We need employment to control people's minds so they don't stray. Poor people need to be addressed and helped.
Deirdre-Ann Donaldson laments her joblessness over the slam of dominoes in the rural St Thomas community of Old Pera. Donaldson, 20, originally intended to go straight on to Excelsior Community College to study tourism...
IT IS A community nestled in the hills of St Thomas with multiple directional signs that read 'Sunny Hill' and 'Sunning Hill'.While the double names may cause confusion for some, one thing was certain...
WESTERN BUREAU: Newly elected deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Dr Christopher Tufton, has promised to unite party supporters in western Jamaica after tensions came to a boil in yesterday's victory over incumbent chairman of Area Council...
WESTERN BUREAU: Burmese expatriates in Jamaica want recently released pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to continue her political agenda to free Myanmar from military dictatorship. Suu Kyi was freed on Saturday...
IT WAS just before noon and Rudolph Bailey stood on the shore in Leith Hall, St Thomas, his fingers expertly weaving a fishing net strung up between two trees like a hammock that swayed in the breeze....
Jamaican gospel music broad-caster Arnold Kelly is the recipient of the President's Award in the 2010 Caribbean Gospel Music Marlin Awards. He was recognised for his contribution to the development...
We are normally wary whenever public officials argue for the relaxation of rules to facilitate the award of contracts. Anti-corruption czars have noted this to be the first sign of people attempting to beat the system.
Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has assured Washington that his government will make legislative changes to prevent a repeat of the bloody melodrama surrounding the extradition of Jamaican Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, alleged by the United States...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding said yesterday that his administration was moving to give the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) constitutional backing.
THE OUTCOME of Dr Christopher Tufton's big gamble on what many believe is a bright political future will be known today when he squares off with another political veteran, Dr Horace Chang, and...
THE BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) will shortly be reporting to the Government on a number of bank charges which have attracted a great deal of condemnation from members of the public following the findings of a recent Consumer Affairs...
THE controversy-plagued FINSAC Commission of Enquiry will resume on Wednesday.A Ministry of Finance public notice, published yesterday, said the commission of enquiry should get under way at The Pegasus hotel in New Kingston at 9:30 a.m.
The Parliament (Integrity of Members) Act, passed in 1973, requires parliamentarians to declare their assets, liabilities and income on an annual basis but it does not allow the people who elected them to have access to these declarations.
WHILE the media in Jamaica are barred from reporting on the financial declarations filed by parliamentarians under the ambit of the Parliament (Integrity of Members) Act, their counterparts in the United States have open access to the information by their elected officials.
THE ANNUAL Dr Ena Thomas Memorial Symposium, which takes place on November 19 and 21 at the The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, will focus on some special aspects of pulmonology - diseases of the lung and respiratory systems.
THE PRESS Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and the Media Association Jamaica (MAJ) have joined forces to look at the survival of media houses and journalists in this troubling economic climate.
The Capital & Credit Financial Group (CCFG) has recorded a 31 per cent increase in net profit after tax of approximately $124 million for the third quarter ending September 30.
Olympic and World 100-metre champion Shelly-Ann Fraser was a big hit on Thursday as she teamed up with one of her major sponsors, GraceKennedy, to tour five primary schools across the Corporate Area and St Catherine.
