Nigel Jones, the attorney-at-law for government minister Zavia Mayne, has said that millions of dollars paid to his client by the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) as part of a land acquisition deal in 2011 “would have been justifiable in the...
Thousands of public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators across the island have been priced out of a $200-million loan earmarked by the Government for the sector after microfinance institutions (MFIs) proposed a slew of requirements for loan take-up,...
The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is forecasting that more educators will leave the sector in the coming months amid frustration over continued discrepancies with their salaries. In a Gleaner interview on Friday, JTA President La Sonja...
The Court of Appeal has quashed an application by the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) for residents of Hope Pastures in St Andrew to provide a $6-million security for costs ahead of their appeal of a ruling by the Supreme Court in June last year....
THE CHURCH has called Everald Warmington’s latest public furore an embarrassment to the Government and has questioned Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ seeming reluctance to rein in the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and...
People’s National Party (PNP) Councillor Lambert Weir is pleading ignorance of the law after the Integrity Commission (IC) ruled that he be charged for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act and the Integrity Commission Act. The revelation of...
The majority of women working on the seasonal farm work programme in Canada have poured scorn on Jamaican liaison officers there, asserting that the group mandated to ensure that they are treated fairly has been unethical and unresponsive to...
The apparent rise in the illegal administration of dental procedures locally has triggered a warning from the health authorities that these black-market routines may result in life-threatening illnesses or death. The alarm comes amid several social...
The University of the West Indies (UWI) has been forced to cut back on security at its Mona campus in St Andrew after falling into arrears with service provider Guardsman Group Limited. The decision comes amid several robberies and attacks on...
Trade unionist Helene Davis White, who headed a fact-finding team appointed by the Government to investigate the working conditions of Jamaican farm workers in Canada, has shed more light on the findings of the probe, which failed to unearth...
The Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) has indicated that it is in possession of several warrants to arrest other suspects in a suspected $200-million fraud scheme at the Institute of Sports (INSPORTS), which culminated in...
The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) has suggested that normality in the public sector in the coming days will be dependent on the outcome of a meeting between trade unionists and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service amid...
The Rastafari Coral Gardens Benevolent Society (RCGBS) is unhappy with how the Government has handled reparation for the community as a whole, 60 years after the atrocities meted out during what became known as the Coral Gardens Massacre. Pamela...
More than 2,000 Jamaicans who travelled to Panama between 2018 and March this year were denied entry into the Central American country while 81 were deported, Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has disclosed. For the same...
Opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson on Tuesday criticised the Police High Command over the unsolved 2016 murder of a man whose body was discovered in the now-disbarred attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey’s Barbican, St Andrew, home. The senior lawmen,...
John Briceño, the prime minister of Belize, says his government had no choice but to adjust immigration and travel policies for Jamaicans and Haitians, amid a suspected ongoing human-smuggling ring in the region. The CARICOM member state, situated...
The Government of Belize has expressed concerns that there is an ongoing human smuggling ring involving Jamaicans, with more than 50 per cent of Jamaicans who travelled to the CARICOM country over the last 14 months being unaccounted for. Of the 1...
VINCENT MORRISON, president of the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), is urging the island’s industrial security guards not to sign contracts given to them by their respective companies, even as the deadline for...
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Marc Williams, who represented discarded education ministry Permanent Secretary (PS) Dean-Roy Bernard, says a message has been sent that “no one is above the law” after the court ruled that his reassignment to a “created post” by...
The Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) has investigated fewer than one per cent of the 44,764 genuine fires reported over the last five years and conducted only 10 per cent of follow-up inspections on buildings flagged for non-conformity between 2017 and...
RICHARD ALBERT, the Canadian expert hired by the Government to advise the Constitutional Reform Committee assembled to guide the country’s transition from a constitutional monarchy to a republic, says this requires a very technical, legal and...
OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding has warned that there will be no consensus from his team on matters of constitutional reform that do not ensure human rights are upheld, amid concerns over the appointment of former Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant...
The parliamentary Opposition has sought to distance itself from recommendations made by legislator Everald Warmington that could weaken the country’s foremost anti-corruption body, noting instead that it would support its entrenchment in the...
The Portia Simpson Miller-led Government’s acceptance of a British man, who was deported from his birth country to the island in 2015, has raised questions about the level of due diligence undertaken by Jamaican authorities tasked with oversight of...
Human rights group Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) and National Integrity Action (NIA) are urging Jamaicans to reject a proposal by government minister Everald Warmington to, among other things, remove the prosecutorial powers of the Greg Christie-led...
