Mindful that their community is likely to be flooded from heavy rains associated with Hurricane Beryl, some residents of Bamboo River in St Thomas on Tuesday were busy preparing to evacuate the area. “Mi nah stay in ya. Mi nuh know ‘bout nobody...
Residents in some flood-prone communities are hoping to be spared the worst from Hurricane Beryl even as they admit they have been lax in their preparations for the looming storm. “Mi just a hope she (Beryl) turn”, Petal Powell, a 52-year-old...
Whenever a resident in Mocho, Clarendon, visits their police station to make a report, they have to wait outside the containers that house the precinct for an available officer. This arrangement is less than ideal, Mocho resident Sheldon Allison...
The Education Transformation and Oversight Committee (ETOC) has achieved “very strong implementation” of the recommendations from the Orlando Patterson report to date, its chair, Dr Adrian Stokes, asserted. Speaking at a press conference yesterday...
While questioning the basis on which a call for the resignations of the Ministry of Health’s permanent secretary Dunstan Bryan and chief medical officer, Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie is being made, Jamaicans for Justice Executive Director Mickel...
Residents of Maverley in St Andrew are expressing disappointment over what they say is the snail’s pace construction of a multimillion-dollar park in their community. Two years ago, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other members of the central...
The Government will be ramping up its effort to rid sidewalks of abandoned motor vehicles and other forms of bulky waste with the addition of 50 new garbage trucks to the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA). The trucks, which were...
A frustrated mother is accusing the administration of Mona High School in St Andrew of blighting her daughter’s academic future after she was suspended from school during the exam season. Tracie-Anne Williams said her daughter, an eighth-grader...
Permanent Secretary Dustan Bryan has blamed the death, migration, and retirement of former staff for the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ inability to finalise its appropriation accounts for submission to the auditor general. The Auditor General’s...
WHILE COMMENDING Jamaica for its effort in collecting data on education performance, Dr Jaime Saavedra, World Bank human development regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean believes a more effective use of this data is needed to craft...
A commitment by Transport Minister Daryl Vaz to have regulations in place to guide ride-hailing operations in Jamaica by the next financial year has been met with scepticism by his opposition counterpart. “I am not optimistic,” Opposition Spokesman...
In November last year, Latoya Linton received the devastating news that she had cancer of the womb. The diagnosis came after months of discomfort, multiple doctor visits and various medications to combat what she was initially told were non-...
Located in a residential community in the Corporate Area is a farm that is breaking the conventional standards of farming by eliminating soil from the growing process. The process is called aeroponics, and farm owner 35-year-old John Mark Clayton...
Five international construction companies will be making bids to rehabilitate the country’s roads under the Government’s $40-billion Shared Prosperity through Accelerated Improvement to Our Road Network (SPARK) Programme, Minister with...
Despite the “moderate” impact observed on Monday as hundreds of taxi operators across the island withdrew their services, citing grievances with the Island Traffic Authority’s (ITA) demerit points system and other regulatory issues, one sector...
In a few weeks, the first batch of students enrolled in the Sixth-Form Pathways Programme (SFPP) will leave the high-school system. And although principals say they had to push through resource constraints and find creative means to get their...
A worrying cloud of uncertainty over four vocational subjects dissipated on Tuesday after the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) reversed its decision to discontinue certifying them. Education sector players have labelled the reversal as a...
The booming white-tailed deer population in Portland is driving farmers to despair as their fields are ravaged, leaving them reeling from millions in losses annually as the invasive species roam unchecked. Kendrick Thompson, a farmer in Industry,...
Security experts are calling for an internal review of the measures of protection in place at Gordon House in downtown Kingston, which houses Jamaica’s Parliament, following Saturday night’s arson attack on the building. Police reports are that...
Despite “short notice” from the Government that the ban on plastic lunch boxes which was to take effect today has been further delayed until July 1, at least one importer of the product is relieved that some clarity has been brought to its...
The almost 30 per cent increase in funds allocated to the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) for the 2024-2025 fiscal year is not enough to address the needs of those it serves, sociologist Dr Orville Taylor has asserted...
Just days before the plastic lunch box ban kicks in, importers and distributors are slamming the Government for its deafening silence. Their frustration mounts as they accuse officials of blindsiding stakeholders without the promised consultations...
Damion Crawford, the opposition spokesman on education, has labelled as “exaggerated and misplaced” the concerns raised over the suspension of four vocational subjects by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Last week, the regional body said...
A replica of the Windrush monument at the Waterloo Station in the United Kingdom (UK) is to be mounted in downtown Kingston next year, Culture Minister Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange has announced. She made the proclamation while speaking on Friday at the...
The Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) says it would be willing to review the citizenship qualification for the prime minister of Jamaica if Cabinet requires it. Its statement follows recommendations from some political commentators that the...
