With Kingston listed as one of 10 cities globally that is projected to lose landmass due to rising sea levels by the end of the century, urban planning and public policy expert Dr Carol Archer is renewing calls for the Government to urgently...
RETAIL BUSINESS owners are predicting further losses for their ventures with the Government’s plan to increase duty-free allowance on personal items by 100 per cent, with at least one retailer labelling the move as “retrograde”. Their businesses,...
Taxi associations have blasted the Government’s decision to reduce the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) fares as a political move, one they believe will have a serious impact on the bottom line of private transport operators. “The commuters who...
Rosina Christina Moder has lived on Devon Close in St Andrew for 38 years, but her days are often disrupted by the sounds of car accidents at the four-way intersection along Kingsway and Devon Road, caused by motorists disobeying the stop signs....
Hospital equipment service providers have called for more consultation before the Ministry of Health and Wellness finalises its Medical Equipment Maintenance Management Policy after flagging clauses they described as “impractical”. The policy,...
Urban planning and public policy expert Dr Carol Archer believes strong political will is needed to frontally address the issue of people settling in areas where they are at high risk in the event of a natural disaster. Archer was responding to...
Michael Edwards, a 42-year-old farmer from Golden Grove in St Thomas, had invested more than $1.5 million in his two acres of sweet corn crop and was due to harvest one acre shortly. But the heavy rains last week flooded his crops and washed his...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has indicated that his administration will be enforcing legislation to relocate and prevent citizens from settling in dangerous areas that risk life and property whenever there is a disaster. Speaking during a tour of...
CONCERNS ABOUT the varying sanctions applied to an unlicensed teacher, the principal of the institution to which the teacher is employed and their employer, dominated Wednesday’s sitting of the joint select committee currently reviewing the Jamaica...
SPENDING THURSDAY night trapped between floodwaters in her vehicle in Golden Grove, St Thomas, with her four-year-old child was not something Tiffany Sobah anticipated. The bank teller was travelling from Morant Bay in the parish to her home in...
COMMISSIONER OF the Independent Commission of Investigations (Indecom) Hugh Faulkner wants the Government to make the acquisition of body-worn cameras for security forces a priority, arguing that this equipment is a critical part of any modern law...
A repeated description by people who tasted Smith’s Rum Cream at the recent Local Economic Initiatives expo hosted by the Social Development Commission and other partners was how smooth the liquor was. Thrown in the mix were other terms like “...
FOR THE last six years, Alvan Ross has been repaying a loan to the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB) that he never received in the first place. The 52-year-old guidance counsellor explained that he was approved for a Pay As You Earn (PAYE) loan from the...
The number of dengue fever cases in Jamaica is expected to increase in the coming weeks before falling early next year, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has warned. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Tufton shared that 3,...
Lawmakers expressed outrage in Parliament on Tuesday over a deadly attack on a taxicab in Salt Spring, St James, which left a man and two young boys dead on Monday evening. Prime Minister Andrew Holness called on the security forces to pursue swift...
On Saturday, Orane Green felt a deep sense of pride as he was conferred with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Instrumentation by The University of the West Indies, Mona, knowing that he was the only student to complete the programme.
TWO DERELICT buildings in downtown Kingston that partially collapsed during the 5.6 magnitude earthquake that rattled the island three days ago will be demolished on Sunday. “We had posted the relevant notices to give the owners-occupiers 48 hours...
KAY-SIMONE MORRISON Edwards had already got married, started her family, and was quite comfortable selling clothing items to salons in the vicinity of her hometown of Old Harbour in St Catherine. Though she understood the importance of a university...
The State’s leading emergency management agency says it was following protocols when it took more than six hours to address the nation in the aftermath of arguably the most significant earthquakes the country has experienced in three decades. “You...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is lauding the country’s comprehensive disaster response mechanism which he says was on display yesterday in the aftermath of a 5.6-magnitude earthquake that rattled the island. The earthquake, which lasted...
Jamaica’s absence from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) vote on a resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas, has been described by scholars as backward and an embarrassment to the island’s history of taking...
Declaring that there is “tremendous opportunity” for scientific advancement through the development of artificial intelligence (AI), Zoe Lofgren, ranking member of the US House of Representatives on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee...
A CURIOUS mind and a desire to live a life of impact have fuelled 28-year-old Brian Walker’s scholastic journey and placed him on a pathway to the pinnacle of academic achievement. The former journalist is the recipient of the inaugural Cambridge...
ANGELINE JACKSON’S ministry is centred around affirming members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ+) community, by providing an environment where they feel free to express their spirituality, regardless of their sexual...
Residents of Jacks Hill in St Andrew mounted roadblocks on Tuesday morning to protest the condition of the roads in their community, saying that the already-terrible state was worsened by recent heavy rainfall. Using felled trees to block the...
