Seasoned trade unionist Granville Valentine says Monday’s Supreme Court ruling to deny Digicel Jamaica and Cari-Med Limited employees reprieve against the implementation of mandatory COVID vaccine policies pending trial will result in the wanton...
A number of students who want to continue attending the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston will have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 following a new mandate expected to take effect in February. But already, there is pushback against...
CARICOM Secretary General Dr Carla Barnett stopped short of definitively supporting COVID-19 vaccine mandates across the region on Tuesday, opting instead to point out that governments have a right to protect their citizens. There has been strong...
The CARICOM Secretariat has conceded that there is little advocacy it can muscle to push member states off a European Union (EU) anti-money laundering blacklist but rapped developed countries for constantly shifting international benchmarks....
Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris says the Government is likely to face “major embarrassment” in the future if Senator Kamina Johnson continues her protest against Opposition Senator Lambert Brown, with whom she has had bad-tempered...
Ditching his ‘70s-era bush jackets, donning Kangol caps, and manicuring his scruffy beard, Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s handlers have sought to rebrand the dour commercial lawyer in the way young Labourites flipped the script in transforming a...
Washington is seeking to repair its soured relations with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) following the regional divisions that ensued after the Trump administration handpicked four member states for an exclusive meeting in March 2019, sparking...
The Biden administration has pledged more support in curbing the smuggling of guns from Haiti into Jamaica amid a sharp increase in murders here. Mark Wells, the United States deputy assistant secretary for Caribbean affairs and Haiti at the Bureau...
Coronavirus infections are expected to again envelop the country in a matter of weeks, putting seniors 60 years and over most at risk, but Jamaica’s Chief Medical Officer, (CMO) Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, has cautioned against hitting the...
A fix to the ills in the public health system, Howard Mitchell believes, could start with the National Housing Trust (NHT) and its facilitation of accommodation for healthcare workers, the majority of whom, it is argued, are not earning liveable...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says his administration is grappling with finding a balance between driving Kingston’s construction boom and avoiding environmental degradation. Holness said the sector is critical to positioning the capital city as...
Hours after Eastern Caribbean neighbours Barbados declared republic status and swore in its first president, a veteran politician has criticised Jamaican lawmakers’ inertia in severing the country’s links to the British monarchy. Fitz Jackson,...
Padmore Primary School principal Keisha Hayle has returned to the political fold of the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) and is set to contest the Red Hills division in the upcoming local government elections due in three months. In a...
Senior defence lawyer Bert Samuels has challenged Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ position on how sentences for illegal possession of firearms should be handled, cautioning that the judiciary ought to be free from the influence of the executive and...
Seeking to staunch bloodshed with more than 1,300 people killed this year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday promised a vigorous legislative push to tackle the country’s galloping murder rate. The thrust follows last Thursday’s blocking of...
Fraud and corruption charges against Kim Brown-Lawrence, councillor for the Brown’s Town division in the St Ann Municipal Corporation, have not immediately disqualified her candidacy for the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as it fine-tunes...
Chairman of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Robert Montague, is facing a quiet-but-potent challenge headed by the party’s powerful Area Council One to oust him amid a trail of scandals spanning two ministries he has headed since 2016....
A mother who says she was unable to identify her dead son because his face had decomposed beyond recognition, is calling for an investigation of the Government-contracted Archer’s Funeral Home in Spanish Town, where the body was being stored....
With hours on the clock before the special leave of scandal-scarred former Education Minister Ruel Reid was set to expire, negotiations between the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Jamaica College (JC) board to determine the way forward were still...
Opposition Spokesperson on Education Dr Angela Brown Burke has lashed out at the Ministry of Education’s decision to remove special-needs students from the Adonijah Group of Schools over unpaid fees. But on Wednesday, Education Minister Fayval...
A steady increase in the rejection rate of non-immigrant visa applications in the B category since 2016 has given rise to concerns about the transparency of the process, but the United States Embassy in Kingston has said it operates within the...
Chargé d’affaires at the United States Embassy in Kingston, John McIntyre, has seemingly broken from the isolationist rhetoric of former ambassador Donald Tapia, insisting that China’s deepening relations with Jamaica will not sour the island’s...
The Government may encounter difficulties in the Senate from its opposition counterparts when it seeks an extension to the states of public emergency (SOEs) declared in seven police divisions on Sunday. Already, several opposition senators have...
A Jamaican man who vacationed with his spouse and young daughter at the RIU Ocho Rios hotel in St Ann believes he was profiled and badly beaten by staff after returning to a room to retrieve an item after checkout. Raymond Henry booked his stay at...
Seventeen special-needs students who attended the Adonijah Group of Schools in St Andrew have been displaced following a dispute between administrators and the Ministry of Education over unpaid fees. The matter came to a head two weeks ago when...
