Ajanae Parchment, the 11-year-old girl who underwent corrective surgery for severe scoliosis in November under challenging circumstances, is headed to St Hilda’s Diocesan High after scoring high in her Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exams. The young...
More than half of Jamaicans, polled on whether they would relocate to another country, said they would not leave the island of their birth. At the same time, of those who said they were willing to migrate, the majority selected the United States (...
Kingston Mayor Andrew Swaby says he has proposed the twinning of three by-elections with the general election, constitutionally due months from now, to cut cost to the country. The update comes more than five months after three divisions — Olympic...
The state-run National Water Commission (NWC) says “negative reactions” from local and international customers and a mistrust of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) have triggered its decision to no longer share water-quality...
Trouble is brewing in Region 3 of the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) amid allegations by chairman Dennis Gordon that persons are seeking to undermine his and leader Mark Golding’s efforts to take state power. In a brief address to PNP...
Dissatisfied contract workers at Jamaica’s main import and export terminal are blasting the company and their union following a proposal for a 13.6 per cent salary increase for the years 2020 to 2025. The information was communicated to workers in...
Yesterday’s nomination of Duane Smith as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for the St Andrew North Western by-election reignited expectations among Labourites that he may follow in his father Derrick’s footsteps as the parliamentary...
The Government used its majority in the House of Representatives yesterday to pass a bill that will delay for three months the holding of a by-election to replace former Morant Bay Councillor Rohan Bryan who died in May. Bryan’s death created a...
There has been radio silence on a date for the by-election to fill the vacancy left in the Morant Bay division in St Thomas, following the death of Councillor Rohan Bryan almost three months ago. Bryan, who ran on a People’s National Party (PNP)...
A woman believed to be a resident of Kintyre in St Andrew East Rural has backed the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in its filing of an election petition to void the results of two polling divisions in the recent local government elections,...
President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Metry Seaga says the increase in the national minimum wage from $13,000 to $15,000 per 40-hour work week has come as a surprise but is a change its membership will adjust to. The...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding targeted Jamaica’s 30,000 teachers in his contribution to the 2024-2025 Budget Debate on Tuesday, outlining several commitments to the group if the People’s National Party forms the next government. Golding, who was...
Questions are being raised about the silence of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) on the steps being taken to complete the 2022 Population and Housing Census, amid a disclosure of “under coverage” by Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke....
Firebrand councillor Venesha Phillips has hit back at Mark Golding over his “traitor” comment, calling the People’s National Party (PNP) president “desperate for attention”. Golding, while introducing prospective PNP candidates contesting local...
OPPOSITION LEADER Mark Golding says the Integrity Commission’s (IC) inability to certify Prime Minister (PM) Andrew Holness’ statutory declarations for a second straight year does not bode well for Jamaica’s image and has called for him to “step...
IT FIRM GeoTechVision says it will “vigorously” appeal yesterday’s Supreme Court judgment dismissing its claim for the state-owned e-Learning Jamaica Company to pay more than US$100 million for terminating a contract to supply over 19,000 tablets...
The thousands of mourners who swarmed Chapelton on Sunday to bid a sombre farewell to the butchered Cocoa Piece family of five offered an outsize national rebuke to Jamaica’s crisis of domestic crime. But for six-year-old Beulah All-Age student...
Talk of Jamaica’s allies in North America and Europe possibly easing sanctions against oil-rich Venezuela to avert an energy crisis amid global sanctions levied against Russia could lead to the Holness administration rekindling the island's...
Two public officials have been tagged “grossly incompetent” in an Integrity Commission report for their handling of two contracts that cost Jamaican taxpayers $20 million. The report, which was tabled in Parliament on March 8, covered an...
Former national security ministers Peter Bunting and Robert Montague are facing scathing criticism from a founding director of the board of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) who says they, and some board members, have betrayed the confidence...
