Stories by Arthur Hall

More than 700 persons who are healthy and able to go home are continuing to occupy beads in public hospitals, putting a further strain on the ailing health sector.Data compiled by the Ministry of Health shows almost every hospital playing host to...

While, publicly, members of the People's National Party (PNP) are refusing to ascribe blame for the defeat in the just-concluded general election, privately, it appears that the proverbial 'long knives' have been drawn and they are aimed mainly at...

Outgoing Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna has returned the vehicle, phone and diplomatic passports given to her when she was appointed to head the ministry in 2012.Hanna's handover came hours before Prime Minister-designate Andrew Holness...

  Labourites and Comrades in Eastern St Andrew know it’s a tight race between the People’s National Party’s Andre Hylton, who is defending the fewer than 500 votes margin he won by in 2011, and Fayval Williams, who is...

Political candidates who might want to flout the law and pay persons to vote for them come February 25 will have to fork out a low of $1,000 to more than $10,000 for each vote.The latest Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll has found that 13 per...

With 18 days left before Jamaicans go to the polls, two research teams from the University of the West Indies, using different methods, have projected that the People's National Party (PNP) will be back in power when the votes are counted.Using the...

Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is taking credit for Jamaica not experiencing the disruption and street protests recorded by several other countries that have implemented similar punishing fiscal measures over the past few years.But university...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) is reporting strong interest from potential investors to its latest effort to find qualified bidders to deliver 37 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to the national grid."It is going very smoothly, the bids...