Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging People’s National Party (PNP) supporters not to succumb to pressure he said will come from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for their votes in the coming general election. Golding, who was speaking at the...
Asians make up the largest number of people requesting an extension of stay in Jamaica, accounting for 46 per cent of the 10,146 aliens registered in 2024, according to Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) records. In its latest Economic and Social...
Attorney-at-law CHUKWUEMEKA Cameron has criticised a stance of the Supreme Court that members of parliament and public officials implicitly consent to the verification of their assets when they submit their statutory declarations, calling it a “...
Opposition Senator Damion Crawford has dismissed the Government’s announcement to invest $1 billion in a school breakfast programme, calling it inadequate and politically motivated. He pointed out that the plan, aimed at feeding 69,000 students,...
Nearly one in three Jamaicans say they cannot identify a single area they believe the Dr Andrew Holness administration has excelled in since 2020, months before the next parliamentary election is due. At the same time, roughly one in four Jamaicans...
People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell says the political atmosphere across Jamaica is increasingly reminiscent of the 2011 election campaign that saw the PNP return to power in a landslide 41-22 victory over the Jamaica...
The Administrator General’s Department (AGD) says it does not perceive any conflict in overseeing the estate of Jodian Fearon, the young mother who died after being denied treatment at several hospitals in the Corporate Area five years ago. The...
Reading is to be returned to the primary-school timetable, says Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information, who yesterday acknowledged there is a literacy crisis impacting schools across the country. Morris...
Jamaica is bracing for potential fallouts from the Donald Trump administration’s funding and job cuts at the primary weather forecasting agency in the United States, which supplies the island with some satellite information for local weather...
More than 70 per cent of the roughly 220 grade-seven students at Pembroke Hall High School are unable to read or do so only at a grade-three level, according to the school’s principal, Reverend Claude Ellis. Alarmingly, many of these students...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is alleging that the Office of the Services Commission (OSC) rejected the application of an experienced candidate with intel background in favour of Dennis Chung for the job of chief technical director...
Jamaican students planning to study in the United States are being advised to clean up their social media accounts as the State Department pauses new student visa appointments and ramps up digital vetting procedures. The suspension stems from a...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says his Government intends to focus on what he calls the “local economy”, now that the nationally economy has been “fixed”. Holness, who is the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, was speaking at a party meeting in...
Jamaica’s main political parties have flatly denied using Senate positions to settle internal party disputes, even as tensions simmered in St Andrew North Central and a quarrel erupted over a selection decision in Kingston Central. Their rejection...
Legislators from both major political parties in Jamaica agree that reforms to the country’s campaign financing laws are necessary though they differ on the specifics of what those changes should entail. Dr Horace Chang, general secretary of the...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has criticised the position taken by Cabinet Minister Matthew Samuda for the National Water Commission (NWC) to bypass the local health board in the submission of water quality reports, calling it “childish and petty...
Cabinet Minister Matthew Samuda has defended the stance of the National Water Commission (NWC), which has indicated it will cease sharing water quality data with the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), but said all reports about...
St Andrew East Rural Member of Parliament (MP) Juliet Holness says the Andrew Holness administration has brought Jamaica to a point where citizens no longer have to “band their belly” to survive, urging the electorate to reject the opposition party...
Jamaica’s Supreme Court is being asked to quash a decision by the St James Municipal Corporation to remove political posters of prospective candidates for the upcoming general election and to bar the local authority from taking any similar action....
The Office of the Political Ombudsman has asked Mayor of Montego Bay Richard Vernon for a written explanation outlining the basis on which campaign posters of prospective candidates for the Opposition party have been removed by the St James...
A heated political debate over housing policy has erupted between the Government and the parliamentary Opposition, as both sides seek to win voter support ahead of Jamaica’s next general election. On Monday, Opposition Leader Mark Golding responded...
The Jamaican electorate is being urged by Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness to choose his Government’s housing policies over the Opposition’s when they go to the polls, even as he acknowledged the ongoing housing crisis that has been overwhelming...
A Jamaican immigration attorney in the United States (US) believes the Trump administration is headed for a major legal showdown with universities there as the slashing of student visas threaten their funding. Attorney-at law Oliver J. Langstadt...
The Church of England is hoping that its establishment of a £100-million fund for the descendants of slavery will cause other institutions to examine their roles in the transatlantic slave trade and follow that example. The fund is being...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is urging Jamaicans in the diaspora to return home and invest, a move which he said would increase the country’s output and further boost the economy. Holness, who was the guest speaker at a diaspora forum at the...
