Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has now acknowledged that his office received a report from the Financial Services Commission (FSC) on the fraud-hit Stocks...
Declaring that he is not in hiding, Industry Minister Aubyn Hill said he will “fulsomely” address Jamaicans on a series of controversies plaguing his ministry, including whether he retains confidence in an agency head who released substandard rice...
There are mixed signals on whether some brands of bottled coconut water and bottled water now on the market are safe to consume, because, almost three months after concerns were raised, a government watchdog is yet to provide information on...
A 2022 internal assessment at the agency mandated to protect Jamaicans from substandard products identified dozens of manufacturers who were producing blocks that did not meet the minimum requirement for bearing load. But with the Dr Lorice Edwards...
Details of possible collusion involving employees linked to an alleged oil-stealing ring at a China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) property, located at a Ferry industrial complex off the Mandela Highway in St Andrew, are emerging in the...
The Government has initiated a “comprehensive review” of Jamaica’s rice importation regime following a Sunday Gleaner probe that exposed the release of a substandard shipment of the popular staple linked to a company in which a Cabinet minister is...
An alleged forged will that stoked a simmering dispute between a father and his son over ‘dead leff’ land, and which pitted family members against each other, cast a long shadow over a triple killing that has rocked the Francis clan in Toll Gate,...
A gym and restaurant at 7 Hillcrest Avenue in St Andrew are to be closed by July 31 in a case of illegal development brought by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) against the operators and property owner. It is the latest...
Approximately $300 million was donated to Jamaica’s two main political parties for the 2020 general election, the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has confirmed, amid renewed calls for the law to change to reveal the names of contributors....
As further strife looms, CARICOM is now scrambling to organise an emergency session with the regional leaders after Jamaica again broke ranks, this time naming its own candidate for the post of secretary-general of the Commonwealth. Antigua and...
The chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) not only stopped the early consideration of the contract renewal of the institution’s vice chancellor but also presided over a process that deviated from established procedures, an internal...
When the financial year ends in March, taxpayers would have shelled out more than $40 billion in bailout support for two of three agencies involved in the provision of public transportation. Stakeholders agree that government subsidy is necessary...
Some very senior members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are now fretful that Friday’s near-midnight resignation of the controversial Robert Montague from the Cabinet, capping a turbulent past six years, will expose cracks in the governing party...
A member of parliament, at least 10 current and former permanent secretaries and 10 senior local government officials are among more than 150 names that the Integrity Commission (IC) submitted to two financial institutions last year for key...
Education Minister Fayval Williams says efforts are being made to appoint a permanent president of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) by August, amid concerns from key stakeholders over the near two-year wait for the position to be...
Developer Orpheus Stennett has been forced to stop work on his apartment complex in Acadia, St Andrew, after the Supreme Court granted an injunction sought by the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC). Stennett consented in court to...
Dental surgeon Dr Michelle Charles is rejecting allegations in a complaint brought against her by the Florida Department of Health in the United States in November last year. The Office of the Attorney General for Florida has also said that...
The files of six developers have been handed over to the police over the past 10 years to be investigated for various alleged crimes, the Real Estate Board (REB) has disclosed. In recent times, regulatory state agencies have come under scrutiny for their work. The REB’s chief...
Bengal Development’s quest, which has been backed by the prime minister, to mine in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains is going ahead after the State’s environmental regulator accommodated the late payment of a $40-million bond....
Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the ceremonial head of The University of the West Indies (UWI) Chancellor Robert Bermudez, using a committee that reports to him, as a rift between the top two leaders enters unprecedented and “...
An alleged scoring error that resulted in an initial winner of a multimillion-dollar contract to supply tractors has plunged the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) into controversy, with a lawsuit threat from the aggrieved company...
Details have emerged that HEART/NSTA Trust paid out undisclosed millions in new salaries to senior executives before getting the required approvals. However, the public agency that reports to Prime Minister Andrew Holness has denied a Sunday...
Just under 50 per cent of the monetary value of all contracts awarded by HEART/NSTA Trust to SynCon Technologies took place during the period the company’s CEO chaired the board of the state agency. There is no evidence Edward Gabbidon was involved...
Convicted sex offender and former religious leader, Kevin O. Smith, who is now deceased, had some of his first footprints in Jamaica at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, where he operated a mentorship programme involving over three...
