Stories by Daraine Luton

Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is claiming that the decision by the parliamentary Opposition in 2010 not to grant a second extension to a state of emergency was the main reason for Jamaica's spiralling crime rate.Holness, who was then a member of...

Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro Lemes, is welcoming the tabling of a campaign-finance bill in Jamaica's Parliament and has expressed the hope that other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will...

DR CHRISTOPHER Tufton says he is looking forward to making his contribution to the debate on the three Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) bills, which have stalled in the Senate as a result of a boycott by opposition members."I think it is important,...

The school-feeding programme is to be directly linked with a promise, from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, that an expanded PetroCaribe arrangement will see efforts aimed at reducing hunger and poverty in the region.Jerome Thomas, the Food and...

The identity of persons and entities that give under $1 million in campaign contribution is to be kept secret by the country's electoral authorities even as one of Jamaica's most prominent private sector bodies - the Private Sector Organisation of...

"IT IS a psychological warfare," declared a supporter of Andrea Moore last Thursday amid tensions within the East Portland People's National Party family...

Jamaica's decision on whether it befriends another country appears to be primarily informed by the willingness of that country to provide assistance in time of need.Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, while speaking on a motion for Jamaica to use...

OPPOSITION Senator Arthur Williams has revealed that he has had a "change of heart" on matters relating to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) and has promised to "act in Jamaica's interest" when he votes on three bills aimed at delinking Jamaica...

Arguing that approximately 275 Jamaicans who work under the seasonal workers' programme in the United States are due about J$77,000 each per year for expenses incurred in travelling to the North American country in order to work, a non-...

Key organisers in Jamaica's two main political parties say increases in the voters' list should not be interpreted as a sign of support for either the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) or the governing People's National Party (PNP) by first-time...