A social media post from a People’s National Party account dubbed “Parliament disabling persons with disabilities” has reportedly left the staff of the legislature fuming. President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson told his colleagues in the Upper...
Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple Philibert yesterday shut down responses to a string of questions posed by the parliamentary Opposition surrounding the Airports Authority of Jamaica’s (AAJ) nearly half a billion-dollar...
The board of governors of Jamaica College will today hold a crucial meeting to deliberate on recommendations submitted by the Ministry of Education on how to deal with the controversial issue of extending special leave with full salary and benefits...
More than 45,000 students and 2,520 teachers at the primary level have been given the green light to return to face-to-face classes beginning November 8, but the institutions will have to adhere to a strict risk-based model, Prime Minister Andrew...
With the Ministry of Education unable to account for how $124 million in taxpayers’ money was spent by the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (JCTE), Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has recommended that Portfolio...
Two pieces of legislation aimed at giving prosecutors the right of appeal in limited circumstances were passed without amendment in the Upper House on Friday amid strong dissenting voices, with at least one lawmaker registering his objection to the...
In a policy shift, Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang has announced plans to revamp the Protective Services Division of the police force and to redeploy trained officers to the front line of crime fighting. In a statement to the House of...
In an unswerving defence of his stewardship, the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ chief accounting officer Dunstan Bryan declared on Wednesday that his officials and staff did not veer from the Government’s policy of administering the Pfizer...
In the face of withering criticism of the Ministry of Health & Wellness’ policy to expand the dispensing of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine beyond children to adults, Permanent Secretary Dunstan Byran is expected...
As the parliamentary Opposition joins a call from the Jamaica Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA) for the central bank to rescind its one percentage-point increase in deposit interest rates, Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles...
The Integrity Commission has flagged three critical state agencies for instances in which goods and services procured were misclassified under the emergency contracting methodology. Kevon Stephenson, director of investigations at the Integrity...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has raised questions about a decision by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information to slash subvention in half to Nutrition Products Limited (NPL) and divert funds to schools while retaining the entire...
Chairman Edmund Bartlett says lawmakers who sit on the Integrity Commission Oversight Committee (ICOC) will be called from their summer break to examine a backlog of annual reports tabled by the anti-corruption body. Bartlett told The Gleaner last...
Members of Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee were on Wednesday perplexed as to why the Dr Cecil Cornwall-led Western Hospitality Institute (WHI) received the lion’s share of funding for students pursuing occupational...
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information declared on Wednesday that they had not had oversight responsibility for the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET)...
Consultant psychiatrist and member of the Psychiatric Association of Jamaica, Dr Winston De La Haye, is endorsing a proposal in the Tobacco Control Act, 2020, which prohibits tobacco companies from awarding scholarships as part of their corporate...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the clearest signal that his administration was not afraid to go against the grain of culture and pass legislation to outlaw corporal punishment, which has been a decades-old mode of punishing children in...
The Government is fast-tracking plans to amend Section 24 of the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) that will bring an end to the practice of placing children deemed “uncontrollable” in penal institutions. Section 24 of the CCPA indicates that in...
Shane Dalling, chief executive officer of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), sought on Tuesday to make a case before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that legal advice he received from private counsel justified his decision to enter...
The annual scholarships provided by Carreras Limited to scores of Jamaicans may soon come to a halt if the Tobacco Control Act, 2020, is passed in its current form. Managing director of the company, Raoul Glynn, said that provisions in the proposed...
After being subject to strict lockdowns since the onset of COVID-19 on Jamaica’s shores in March 2020, the entertainment and creative industries have been given breathing space to reopen, but not without a stern warning that adherence to the health...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis told members of a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday that she did not prepare reports on the basis of hearsay but on evidence. Her statement comes against the background of questions from St James...
Heroy Clarke, the member of parliament for St James Central, asked Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis on Tuesday to disclose her views on nepotism during a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to review the appropriations accounts of the...
AS THIEVES continue to prey on local farmers, causing them great distress and frustration, the Government has signalled that steps are being made to amend two important pieces of legislation to increase the penalties for those who continue to...
With its critical role of assessing development projects to reduce the likelihood of disasters that can impact the economy and well-being of Jamaicans, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) was strongly criticised on...
