Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has issued a stern warning to the Ministry of Education, declaring that it runs the risk of falling victim to fraud, unauthorised withdrawals, and significant bank errors because of its failure to prepare its...

Evergreen lawmaker and government minister Karl Samuda has slammed critics of the retention of veterans in the Holness Cabinet, arguing that “disrespect” for senior statespersons was born out of ageism. Samuda, the labour and social security...

WESTERN BUREAU: Noelle Jackson was seated on an American Airlines flight that had just taxied off from the Norman Manley International to Miami Monday morning when she was compelled to appeal to the crew to return to the gate. “I knew something wa...

Footballer Javannie Thompson was warming up on a playing field in his Old Harbour housing scheme on Sunday as he prepared for a community game that day. But after a completing two laps, eyewitnesses watched as he clutched his chest in anguish and......

When Godfrey Perkins last spoke with his son Garth in December, he told him that he was quietly enjoying the Christmas season. Perkins said he was satisfied, as any parent would be, that his son was fine. But late Monday, the peace that had...

Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has announced a suite of administrative changes to the approval process for building applications amid public backlash and chastening court judgments about negligence, or worse, in its inspection oversight. Among the.....

The new Holness Cabinet has been criticised as top-heavy and inefficient, with Opposition Leader Mark Golding describing Monday’s reshuffle as “a trivial exercise” that will add to taxpayers’ burdens. Golding accused the Government of using ...

The Government piled an additional $25.8 billion on to its recurrent budget for this fiscal year, which ends in March. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke tabled on Tuesday a second Supplementary Estimates showing plans to spend $893.05 billion for...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it has recovered salary overpayment of a little more than $19 million for the last two financial years, but the department has failed to make full disclosure on the extent of excessive sums paid to workers. A......

Under-fire National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague are the big survivors in a Cabinet reshuffle that saw Prime Minister Andrew Holness retaining all cards in his deck in what has been described......

On his 40th birthday and just 117 days after he was forced to resign in shame, Floyd Green, considered one of the brightest sparks in the Holness administration, was reappointed to the Cabinet. The two-term St Elizabeth South Western member of...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ assembly of key members of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) election machinery under his wing has caught the eye of political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, who said the administration is fine-tuning its organisation ...

Prominent figures in western Jamaica last night welcomed news of Homer Davis’ appointment to coordinate special projects and major developments in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) amid a shuffle in the Executive. Davis, a former mayor of...

Kingston Central Member of Parliament (MP) Donovan Williams is adamant that despite the surge in murders in his constituency, which triggered the declaration of a zone of special operations (ZOSO) in the Parade Gardens community on Sunday,...

If the six students aboard the two trains that pulled into the Spanish Town terminal for the start of the new commuter rail service yesterday is any indication of its future passengerload, it could bring into question its viability, especially at a....

The Government will today put forward the Second Supplementary Estimates of Expenditure in Gordon House, the seat of Jamaica’s Parliament, ahead of next month’s tabling of the 2022-23 Budget. The Gleaner understands that it became necessary for...

Delivery man killed by cops A 20-year-old bike delivery man was allegedly fatally shot by the police at his Zacky Avenue home in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, on Monday. Residents said that Quacie Harriot, otherwise called ‘Chad’, was kille...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is calling on Prime Minister Andrew Holness to explain how a breach of an environmental permit was accommodated in the push by a company to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour...

WESTERN BUREAU: DELEGATES OF the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) will be meeting this Friday, January 14, to determine whether to accept the Government’s latest offer in ongoing wage talks. Providing a brief update on the protracted wage...

WESTERN BUREAU: HARD HIT by praedial larceny, Hanover farmers have been urged to report matters of stolen property to the police, and also develop a close relationship with the lawmen to reduce incidents and recover losses by having the culprits...