Acting Chief Education Officer (CEO) Dr Kasan Troupe takes over today as permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education and Youth, the first settled appointment to the role since 2019 and being the sixth person in that capacity in eight years....
The Government is to pay the salaries of restive employees of investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) to avoid disruptions in the ongoing investigation into the alleged fleecing of more than $4 billion from clients. None of the more...
CONCERNS ARE lurking inside CARICOM that the Caribbean may not be able to capitalise on recent major developments in the push for reparations for slavery because of the absence of a “common negotiating strategy”. “The recent successes in the...
Shock has met revelations that reparation for slavery is not an agenda item for the Commonwealth, whose ceremonial head is the British monarch and whose members, including Jamaica, are mostly former colonies. “There has been no specific call for...
The Supreme Court has blocked founder of the fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL), Hugh Croskery, from using a $480-million villa in St Ann to settle a debt with George Chai, a retired bakery owner. Any transfer of the property will have...
Lawyers for Juliet Holness’ company at the centre of an $800-million court battle have dismissed the defendant’s assertions that the lawmaker used her influence to get public agencies to bend to her will. Holness’ company, JAJ Development and...
Seprod, Jamaica’s producer of condensed milk, cannot maximise on more than $10 billion in investments to supply the region because fewer than half of CARICOM countries have implemented a mandated tax on imports from outside the bloc. In 2021,...
Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has told Parliament that he was not aware his ministry blocked taxpayers from accessing a consultancy report, which has been described as a ‘draft’ document, that informed controversial new salaries implemented...
Sagicor Bank Jamaica intends to satisfy a court order obtained by Usain Bolt for the disclosure of transactions linked to accounts owned by Jean-Ann Panton, the sole accused in the alleged $3 billion fraud at Stocks...
GOVERNMENT HAS blocked access to the full consultancy report that informed controversial new public sector salaries recently implemented, saying that the document is in ‘draft’ because reforms are incomplete. But the Jamaica Manufacturers and...
NORMAN HORNE, who leads one of Jamaica’s largest construction materials companies, has denied claims made in court that he should be declared responsible for the “concealed fraudulent transfer” of assets from a company he ran, to himself and other...
A woman who has accused a St Ann guest house operator of rape and other sex-related offences has allegedly made similar claims against men in four other parishes under at least three different names, a police detective has revealed. The update was...
A COURT is being asked to declare that businessman Norman Horne, who leads one of Jamaica’s largest construction materials companies, is responsible for the “concealed fraudulent transfer” of assets owned by Arc Systems Limited to himself or other...
Ian Hayles’ will be the only name on the ballot for Sunday’s delegates’ selection for People’s National Party’s (PNP) caretaker for Westmoreland Western in a process that continues to generate strong opposition from councillors in the constituency...
USAIN BOLT has obtained a court order for two banks to disclose the transaction history of accounts owned by Jean-Ann Panton, the only person charged in the $3 billion fraud at Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL). Supreme Court Justice Cresencia...
FORMER ARMY chief Dr Rocky Meade will be paid $10 million per annum under a two-year contract as director for national strategic initiatives, a role the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) does not believe is “totally overlapping” with the...
Defendant Charlene Ashley has been accused of “acting in bad faith” and trying to “go behind” the back of developer Juliet Holness to cover up alleged misdeeds as a trial involving an $800-million unfinished apartment complex intensifies. Those...
BUSINESSMAN HUGH Croskery’s bid to settle a debt with a ‘$225 million’ St Ann villa is now the subject of a legal fight involving relatives who claim they should have been consulted first. The Supreme Court is to rule on July 7 whether the transfer...
THE GOVERNMENT reportedly considered “several options” in its own salary review, including pegging ministers’ salaries to the midpoint of the scale for permanent secretaries and not the highest amount which was ultimately used, multiple Holness...
THE JAMAICA Manufacturers and Exporters Association (JMEA), one of the country’s leading business groups, believes Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to decline his 214 per cent salary increase is meaningless, though the Private Sector...
A LAND surveyor has dismissed a claim by a property owner that drawings of the $800-million apartment complex being built by developer Juliet Holness’ company were needed to deliver a splintered title required by a sales agreement. Donovan...
DEVELOPER JULIET Holness has told a court she is facing a “failed” $800-million housing project in St Andrew if issues with an access road are not addressed in a high-stakes title dispute. “I cannot complete the development,” said the lawmaker,...
