Ahead of its 83rd annual conference this weekend, the People’s National Party (PNP) is reporting that 98 per cent of its candidates have been selected for the impending local government elections. But the party is demanding that the prime ministe...

WESTERN BUREAU: Antigua and Barbuda laundromat and dry cleaning operator Dr Onika Campbell has inked a major franchise distributorship deal with United States manufacturer of textiles and fine linen, Thomaston Mills. Campbell, who owns Express...

At least two elite anti-corruption bodies have been asked by Education Minister Fayval Williams to investigate $124 million paid to the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) over a 32-month period by technocrats but......

Three weeks shy of her son’s 18th birthday, another Central Kingston mother is mourning a brutal murder after warning his elder sibling of the omens of crime. Shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, armed thugs chased and shot to death 17-year-old Rohan....

We’re not loafers! That was the impassioned defence by Greg Christie, executive director of the Integrity Commission, who has bristled at public perception that the corruption watchdog’s officials are living high off the hog doing nothing amid.....

Big government, big problem. That’s the view of Joseph Patterson, leader of Jamaica’s fledgling third registered party. Shrinking the size of the bloated bureaucracy is a key pillar of Patterson’s economic vision for Jamaica, which includes ta...

When the coronavirus pandemic hit Jamaica’s shores in early 2020, Keino Brown and Jermaine Wright were in danger of drowning in the tidal wave of unemployment that swept aside the jobs of more than 135,000 people at the height of the crisis. But.....

While asking the justices to throw out the appeal against the Full Court’s ruling, a government lawyer argued on Thursday that the dreadlocked student at Kensington Primary had no guaranteed right to attend the school. The Full Court had ruled in...

Philmore McCarthy, treasurer of the Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) for more than four years, declared on Wednesday that he is willing to open the books of the advisory board for an investigation into the transfer of $124 million from....

Sidelined Permanent Secretary Dean-Roy Bernard has charged that the privatisation of the controversial Joint Committee for Tertiary Education (JCTE) was effected shortly after his exit as chief accounting officer of the Ministry of Education and......

There is seething discontent among rank-and-file police personnel about the lack of specialised training in interfacing with the mentally ill. Recent violent confrontations involving mentally ill persons have seen two assailants killed by the...

A 17-year-old accused contract killer is among four males reputed to be members of a Clarendon gang who have been charged with murder and illegal possession of firearm. The teen, who cannot be named because he is a minor, is charged alongside...

With two recent cases of persons with mental illnesses reportedly killing two men within the public space and other persons escaping serious injury after being attacked, the health ministry is moving to boost its community-based intervention...

Disaster management specialist Ronald Jackson is lamenting the ad hoc approach to addressing environmental issues without deliberate, long-term planning in many developing countries, saying that it is already wreaking havoc on their economies. In......

Lawyers for the self-proclaimed Nazarene couple, whose child was refused a place at Kensington Primary School because of her dreadlocks hairstyle, yesterday argued that the Full Court erred in finding that the child’s constitutional rights had not...

The Government has allocated an additional $5 billion in the Supplementary Estimates to cushion the impact of the pandemic on the most vulnerable Jamaicans. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke announced a number of CARE packages valued at $3.75...

With the Ministry of Education unable to account for how $124 million in taxpayers’ money was spent by the Cecil Cornwall-chaired Joint Committee on Tertiary Education (JCTE), Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has recommended that Portfolio...

Acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean has sought to provide an explanation for the education ministry’s handling of more than $100 million paid to the Joint Committee of Tertiary Education (JCTE) without reportedly knowing specifically how th...

Growing advocacy for the implementation of mandatory vaccination should be resisted by Jamaicans because it trespasses on their constitutional rights, says controversial leader of Jamaica’s fledgling third registered party, Joseph Patterson....

The dreadlocked couple who were last year dealt a blow after the Supreme Court ruled that Kensington Primary School did not breach their child’s constitutional rights when it reportedly denied her access in 2018 on account of a similar hairstyle.....