Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters turned up in massive numbers for yesterday’s public session of the party’s 80th anniversary conference, to show support for the party ahead of looming local government elections which must be held on or before...
Winston Spaulding, the former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) minister of national security and justice who served in the Edward Seaga administration (1980-1986), was remembered in Parliament for his legal acumen and dedication to country following...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke is blaming the education ministry’s failure to respond to requests for information for the eventual collapse of surcharge action against Dr Grace McLean. In October 2021, the Auditor General's Department (AuGD)...
CLAIMS BY the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) that the Government has instituted a new audio system in Parliament to gag its members have been dismissed by Information Minister Robert Morgan. Morgan yesterday refuted the claims by the...
Nearly an hour into the start of the public session of the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 85th annual conference, organisers were crestfallen, and many faces reflected worry at the small numbers in the arena, with more empty chairs than bodies....
The man who sparked controversy when he was released from chains by People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding during a constituency conference on Sunday is unrepentant about his role in the affair. Claude ‘Big Stone’ Sinclair instead...
THE POLITICAL fallout over the selection of Ian Hayles as the People’s National Party's (PNP) standard-bearer in Westmoreland Western has taken another turn as at least two former PNP, now Independent, councillors intend to join their Jamaica...
WHEN PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) president Mark Golding addresses his party’s 85th annual conference this weekend, he will be fully aware of what is at stake. The occasion will also present for the PNP what is its largest mass gathering before...
Former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson is urging public officials to dial back the intense political rhetoric and character assassinations in the public space, slamming some utterances as “disgraceful”. In a release on Thursday, Patterson, who...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) has called for Jamaicans to wake up and take stock of the way the country is being governed, accusing the Andrew Holness administration of ruling by authoritarian arrogance. During a press conference at...
With significant advancements in the country’s electoral system, it would take massive collusion among electoral officers as well as the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) and opposition People’s National Party’s (PNP) indoor and outdoor agents to...
A former Crown counsel, one of at least 40 to have left the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) in the last five years, has sided with former colleagues who withdrew their services from the court system yesterday. The attorney...
Days of deliberations between the five unions representing workers at the state-operated National Water Commission (NWC) and management have borne fruit with an agreement yesterday that has ended the threat of industrial action which could have...
THE FIVE unions representing workers at the National Water Commission (NWC), and the company’s management, have reached an agreement which has averted threats of industrial action in heat-parched Jamaica and especially the Corporate Area which is...
AS POLITICAL discontent continues to rage in the People’s National Party (PNP) camp in Westmoreland and in the constituency of Western Westmoreland, the three former PNP-elected councillors who sided with the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to remove...
A PERCEIVED lack of response from the Government over outstanding salary issues resulting from the public-sector reclassification and compensation exercise will top the agenda at tomorrow’s meeting of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), and...
THE FAILURE by the National Water Commission (NWC) to implement the recommendations of a reclassification exercise done in 2010 is at the heart of the discontent between workers and management. This led to last week’s threat of industrial action by...
SHANIQUE ARMSTRONG, the woman who accused the Spanish Town Hospital of callous indifference when she was forced to deliver her baby unassisted at the facility in May 2021, has been vindicated in death, following the conclusion of an investigation...
Kenneth Russell’s skills, education, and experience as a former United Nations consultant have taken him to several countries of the world with education systems and outcomes similar to Jamaica. It is for these reasons that the local man has...
EVEN AS some teachers have vowed to withdraw from the project, the Ministry of Education and Youth (MOEY) has targeted nearly 4,000 students who failed the 2022 literacy and numeracy performance tasks examination in a revived national summer school...
Jamaica-born, Canadian billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin has dismissed in the strongest terms any suggestion that he is beginning a slow off-loading process of his majority share ownership in the National Commercial Bank (NCB) with a view to...
ROBERT PICKERSGILL, the now retired former member of parliament (MP) for St Catherine North Western, who served seven unbroken terms as MP, believes it will be impossible to provide job descriptions for elected representatives. Job descriptions...
Outgoing Calabar High School principal Albert Corcho will take the reins at Malvern, St Elizabeth-based Bethlehem Moravian College (BMC) next academic year, The Gleaner can confirm. Corcho’s resignation has been accepted by the board of the Red...
Government and opposition members of parliament (MPs), up to late yesterday evening, had not received the salary increases announced by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke last month. As of 7:30 p.m. on June 1, a full week after all categories of...
When journalist Brian Walker received the Chevening Scholarship to pursue graduate studies in 2018 at the legendary London School of Economics (LSE), he wanted to do more than just return with a master’s degree, which he did and with a distinction...
