The number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases among some of Jamaica’s front-line workers or first responders is on the rise as they confront new challenges emanating from a second wave of the deadly respiratory illness. More than a dozen...
Jamaica’s electoral laws should be amended to bar candidates flagged by the Integrity Commission from contesting parliamentary elections, the head of one civil society group has suggested. The commission is the body established to police the...
St Andrew Western Member of Parliament (MP) Anthony Hylton has identified prominent attorney Tom Tavares-Finson as the person who, without instruction, entered a guilty plea on his behalf to breaches of the anti-corruption law. Hylton, who is...
Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton had both his conviction and sentence for two breaches of Jamaica’s anti-corruption law reversed by a judge in 2011, court documents have revealed. Just over three years after the reversal,...
Members of Parliament (MPs) from the two main political parties have embraced an initiative by one civil society group that seeks to empower citizens to hold them accountable, but with an important caveat. The first-of-its-kind ‘MP Tracker’ is an...
While acknowledging that a “prosecutorial decision” by her office delayed Lynford Allen’s murder trial, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has placed some of the blame on the St Andrew man as well as the country’s under-resourced...
Criminal charges now hang over the heads of five current and former lawmakers who have been accused of flouting Jamaica’s anti-corruption law. The Integrity Commission, Jamaica’s corruption watchdog agency, has revealed that the five – two current...
When Teri Nichols’ cell phone lit up two weeks ago with a message from a police detective in Jamaica, she immediately thought “more bad news”. It’s been four years since her husband Harold and another American missionary, Randy Hentzel, were...
Cindy Robinson was 22 years old when she visited the Morant Bay Health Centre, located in St Thomas, for a routine tooth extraction in April 2007. The government-run clinic has disputed her claim of negligence during the procedure, but Robinson...
Its first known murder in Jamaica was committed nine years ago. The last time the Jamaican police found evidence of its use was four years ago through spent shells found at the scene of a double murder in Portland. The two men killed in that...
Two months after lawmakers on both sides of the political divide lauded a $31.5-million donation from business mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Jamaica’s corruption watchdog agency has warned parliamentarians that they should not accept cash and other...
For Dr Peter Phillips, there is no second-guessing what has been the most rewarding aspect of fatherhood. “Just the love of my children. The unconditional love,” said the leader of the Opposition and president of the People’s National Party (PNP)....
Amid signs that last year’s bitter presidential challenge remains a divisive issue, embattled People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips has agreed to hand over a key position to rival Peter Bunting, PNP insiders have revealed. As...
The United States (US) has been waiting four and a half years to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Holness administration that would help to stamp out corruption at the Jamaican ports that allow the importation of illicit items, the...
One retired policeman has come to the defence of Superintendent Leon Clunis amid messages being circulated on social media alleging that the senior cop ignored a recommendation to “stand down” with plans for last Friday’s deadly raid in Horizon...
A project that was rolled out three years ago to extricate hundreds of mentally ill persons who are languishing inside Jamaica’s prison system, some of them for decades, has stalled, with only a handful being released. The revelation comes amid...
Central Manchester Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting has suggested that individuals inside the People’s National Party (PNP) who consider themselves “palace guards” and not him should be blamed for the latest round of discord to rock the 81-...
AN EXTRADITION request by United States (US) authorities for a mentally ill Jamaican man wanted for murder in the state of New York was lodged at the Ministry of Justice for over a decade with no action, officials have confirmed. What’s worse,...
Ten years after the 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion, there has been no systemic changes within the Jamaican security forces to ensure there is no repeat of the catastrophic events, one state agency has asserted. Compensation payouts for the death and...
Financially and mentally, Jerome Wilkins* is broken. That’s because for nearly a decade, the 36-year-old police constable has been on suspension from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). What’s worse, Wilkins says, is the reason he has been...
THERE’S A surprising revelation as investigations continue into the controversial death of Jodian Fearon. The Sunday Gleaner has now learnt that nearly 24 hours before the first-time mother died of apparent heart failure, a senior official at...
Almost five years ago, lawmakers on a bipartisan committee of Parliament agreed unanimously to amend the law to give the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) the power to arrest and prosecute cops. That proposed amendment, which was...
A FORMER member of parliament has opened up about some of the measures that were employed to keep her safe amid a slew of death threats over the four years she served as a lawmaker. Heather Robinson, the one-term parliamentary representative for...
The Jamaican workers stranded overseas on-board the Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship have demanded answers from the Government after learning that the ban on incoming passengers was relaxed for a gravely ill patient from the Turks and Caicos Islands...
Angela Whitcomb* was sent home on Thursday, April 9 from her job at the Portmore, St Catherine, branch of Alorica, the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm at the centre of the sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jamaica. The...
