Citing glaring inequities in the society arising from the public-sector compensation review undertaken by the Government, Mark Golding has promised that a future People’s National Party (PNP) government will evaluate the structure and take steps to...
A long-standing quarrel between two men from the rural agriculture and fishing district of Alligator Pond in Manchester has left taxpayers with a multimillion-dollar bill racked up at the Mandeville Regional Hospital and University Hospital of the...
It was a horrific case of violent trauma, the images stomach churning and unbelievable for the medical professionals when they first saw them. In fact, as one doctor puts it, they were stunned into silence. Yet after one of the first of its kind...
It’s a few days shy of a month since High Commissioner Joan Thomas Edwards moved to the continent of her ancestors, and three full weeks on the job as Jamaica’s top diplomat to serve her country’s interests there. As High Commissioner to the...
Gay rights activist, attorney-at-law Maurice Tomlinson, wants the Jamaican Government to adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final appellate jurisdiction, as punitive costs to access the United Kingdom-based Privy Council, which...
She smiled a lot during the hour-long interview with The Sunday Gleaner, but it would be a mistake not to take her seriously. Reverend Merlyn Hyde-Riley is a portrait of steely resolve, is arrow focused and has never questioned her call to...
Concerns are being raised that the results of a recent opinion poll showing the two main political parties in a statistical dead heat, are to be blamed for the uptick in what is deemed ‘unparliamentary behaviour’. Midway the Jamaica Labour Party’s...
From ‘dutty labourites’ of the 1960s to ‘chi chi man’ of the 1990s, and ‘damn fools’ and ‘fool fool’ in between, Jamaica’s politics has a storied history of ugly name calling. And an even uglier characterisation of opponents by individuals of the...
A day after the executive of the Jamaica Police Federation expressed fears via WhatsApp messages that it could be sued over the legitimacy of the vote taken last Thursday in which it was alleged that more than 600 bogus ‘yes’ votes were recorded,...
Dr Heather Ricketts has smashed the iron curtain of male dominance of the deanship in the Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus, becoming the first female and its fifth dean. The eyes of all the men...
Results from its recently commissioned political poll are not quite favourable and its ratings among voters have been waning since Portia Simpson Miller stepped down as leader, but that has not dissuaded a flurry of applicants to the People’s...
The long-postponed local government polls seem headed for another postponement with the country’s electoral authority indicating that the budget needed to execute the elections, which are due by the end of next month, has not yet been approved by...
When Yola Gray-Baker learned of the financial scandal unfolding at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), where some 40 clients were reportedly defrauded of billions of dollars, she felt the same sick feeling of the 1990s financial saga, in which her...
Mecheck Willis is 72 years old and lives in a one-room dwelling on Whitehall Avenue in St Andrew, the rent being paid by members of his church family. The meagre earnings from his street vending are not enough to sustain him. His sparse goods of...
Stung by the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) could not be forced to maintain the 60-year-old underground electricity system in the upper middle class community of Hope Pastures in St Andrew, the residents are now...
Without a doubt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce’s majestic run to win an unprecedented and possibly unmatched fifth World Athletics Championships gold medal in 2022 – 13 years after winning the first one in 2009 and at age 35 – should be unchallenged for...
She wakes up each day giving thanks for life and vows to make it better than the day before for the children of Jamaica, especially those in need of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). She is Rosalee Gage-Grey, chief executive...
Sheila Cottrell is a grieving mother with regular high blood pressure readings more than doubling what science deems normal. Her blood pressure skyrocketed when her son, Leroy Brown, aka Dave Roy, from Top Hill in Clarendon, vanished in October....
Jamaica-born British fraud examiner Karen Bailey is urging Jamaicans to step up their vigilance during the Christmas season when there tends to be a jump in fraudulent activities. “Protect your banking details. Make sure your credit and debit card...
Richard Pandohie is prepared to surrender some of his constitutional rights as the Government battles to reduce murders and other violent crimes, but the Seprod Group of Companies CEO is very clear that all Jamaicans should be required to submit to...
Richard Pandohie harbours no doubt that Jamaicans have the capacity to blaze a trail on any world stage and in any field, even when not given the best of starts. For decades, his fellow countrymen have been tapping into their creativity and...
Jamaica has come a long way since the 1980s when citizens inflicted with HIV/AIDS faced rabid discrimination and stigmatisation. In the immediate years after the first case of the disease was reported in Los Angeles in 1981, it was noted to mainly...
The once-thriving community of Rollington Town in Kingston still shows signs of its former glory of large middle-class houses on sizeable lots with 60-year-old architecture and matured fruit trees of varying types throughout the area. Pothole-...
When Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) members and supporters gather at the National Arena in Kingston today for the public session of its 79th annual conference, among the members of parliament expected to be on the platform is Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert...
Retired Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Novelette Grant had anticipated that at least one female would have been on the panel which interviewed her for the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) top job in 2017. Instead, as she sought to become the...
