President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Helene Davis Whyte, says that while progress has been made on the public-sector compensation review, workers who have been hit hard by sharp increases in inflation are anticipating a...
Facing the daunting task of getting her studies back on track after fleeing Ukraine in February in the wake of the Russian invasion, 21-year-old Aliya Johnson is pulling out all the stops to achieve her career goal: that of becoming a doctor of...
Acting executive director of the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS), Michael Leslie, has hailed the donation of 15 prostheses and brassieres for breast cancer survivors by 18-year-old Derrick Bernard as a historic gesture by a young man to assist women...
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, says there is a huge window of opportunity for Jamaica as the Government engages investors to take up the 650 acres of Caymanas property and four areas in Trelawny earmarked for...
Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte and Opposition Leader Mark Golding clashed on Tuesday afternoon in Gordon House during a debate to extend the zones of special operations (ZOSOs) across the country. In his...
Chairman of the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), Dr Elizabeth Ward, believes that the multi-stakeholder approach used in Grants Pen, St Andrew, to bring the conflicting gangs in the past together to iron out their differences and chart a road...
The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) handed down a $15-million award in April 2022 to Catherine Allen for her unjustifiable dismissal by Guardian Life Limited, the entity with which she worked as an actuary. But the quasi-judicial body rebuked...
At least two major construction companies and developers have signalled that they intend to throw their hat in the ring as they jostle to win the multibillion-dollar contract to construct Jamaica’s new state-of-the-art Parliament edifice at Heroes...
As the race for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General heats up, Prime Minister Andrew Holness says that support for Kamina Johnson Smith’s candidature for the job has been “generally very good and specifically very encouraging”. In terms of...
Debate has intensified about plans by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service to discontinue the 20 per cent duty concession on motor vehicles and weave it into travelling officers’ salaries, with one major union expressing concern about the...
There is increasing disquiet in the public sector with the powerful Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) yesterday giving the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service an April 11 ultimatum to furnish the findings of the compensation...
When dark clouds begin to gather, Avis Morrison will not have to worry anymore that as soon as it begins to rain, she would have to scramble with several containers to catch the water from the roof that leaks profusely into her house. Described...
Finance and the Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is insisting that the elimination of the duty concession to travelling officers in the public sector would not place them at a disadvantage. Clarke was responding to news of unease among...
The Jamaican Government is being urged to treat the massive fallout in global oil markets triggered by weeks-long escalation in tensions and Russia’s declaration of war on Ukraine as a national emergency. The ripple effects could worsen consumer...
The 30,000-strong Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has sent an ominous warning to the Government that it cannot guarantee normality in service if the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service does not meet with it by February 25 to settle...
One lawmaker has described as “a deep crisis” the lack of proper skills training and sufficient educational support to juveniles in correctional centres. St Mary Central Member of Parliament Dr Morais Guy has warned that the absence of adequate...
Current hikes in the price of basic foods, fuel and electricity costs are having a “devastating” impact on the poor and low-income earners, University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer and economist Peter-John Gordon has said. The escalations come...
Decrying the high levels of crime in Jamaica that has become a huge barrier to investments locally, president of the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) John Mahfood is pressing the Government to fast-track promulgating...
While the Ministry of Education and Youth struggles to iron out lingering policy issues that have left two critical training institutions in limbo, lawmakers turned up the heat Wednesday on a senior ministry official for allegedly misleading a...
Sanctions have been recommended against Rovel Morris, chief executive officer (CEO) of the St Ann Municipal Corporation, for the accounting officer’s role in a corruption scandal that enmeshed then Mayor Michael Belnavis and which involved the...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), Shane Dalling, has signalled that he was not picking a fight with Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis but is insisting that her conclusions that his salary contract is in...
Under-fire National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague are the big survivors in a Cabinet reshuffle that saw Prime Minister Andrew Holness retaining all cards in his deck in what has been described...
At least one developer is warning that the proposed increase of eight per cent in the price of cement by the country’s main supplier, Carib Cement, will have a significant impact on the lower-income end of the housing market. “The low-income end of...
The finance ministry is considering surcharge action of $11.2 million against sidelined acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean and more than $112 million against the in-limbo incumbent Dean-Roy Bernard, documents bearing the signature of...
Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson is calling for an urgent push by the education sector to rescue thousands of Jamaican students negatively impacted by the fallout in learning since the onset of COVID-19. He said that these students...
