The management of the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) will have to work to avert three days of industrial action by the country’s immigration officers, who are said to be restive over poor treatment and unpaid special allowances...
The Government has doubled down on the Broadcasting Commission’s policy to ban songs it says glorify criminality from the airwaves, arguing that radio stations cannot continue to breach their licences. Minister without Portfolio in the Office of...
Four years after marauding gangsters opened gunfire on a group of mostly teens in the Matthews Lane area of West Kingston, Shinardo Wilson, the most critically injured from the lot, is on his way to a bachelor’s degree in electrical technology on a...
An immigration investigator employed by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) is lamenting how a grouse he has with the state entity is being handled after being held on interdiction for two years without 50 per cent of his salary...
Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Executive Director Vitus Evans is batting for tougher sentences for unregulated operators in the gaming industry, arguing that judges have been too soft. Evans said that because of this, the...
CITING THE emergence of a “worrying trend” in double and triple murders, which has so far produced 218 victims from 99 such incidents since January, the Police High Command is banking on the recently passed Firearms Act to repel the terror that...
The nation’s firearm regulator is expected to add another layer of scrutiny for the granting of gun permits when it introduces a written component to the list of requirements for applicants. Come January, Jamaicans seeking a firearm permit will be...
On the heels of the stabbing death of 16-year-old Michion Campbell at the Kingston Technical High School, Education Minister Fayval Williams says stakeholders will have to go back to the drawing board on how students are nurtured. In a Gleaner...
Six years after encountering challenges to get Spanish hotel chain Iberostar to pay for wrongful suspension stemming from alleged fraudulent on-the-job activities, the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has ‘vindicated’ Marlon McLeod. On Wednesday...
The National Water Commission (NWC) is hoping to shave millions of dollars from its $1.1-billion monthly electricity bill with today’s project launch for the Mona Reservoir floating solar system. Floating solar systems provide an opportunity to...
Two months before stabbing his father to death at their Petersfield District home in Westmoreland in July 2021, Garnett Foster Jr had researched ways to kill a parent. The now 18-year-old man had become wayward and believed that his parents,...
More than 2,000 complaints of abuse or breaches of employment policies have been filed against employers under the Seasonal Agricultural Work Programme, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has said. But of that figure, only 43 per cent...
It wasn’t the customary fanfare associated with pre-pandemic People’s National Party (PNP) annual conferences, but hundreds of hopeful Comrades eager to see the political movement back at the zenith of Jamaican politics filed on to the grounds of...
Acknowledging that there is significant work to be done to regain state power, People’s National Party (PNP) stalwarts and long-time members believe that the 84-year-old out-of-favour movement will peak at the right time, rejecting assertions that...
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is expected to present two pivotal resolutions to its annual conference on Sunday which, if approved, will change the way the leadership corps of the 84-year-old organisation is selected. The Mark...
Lieutenant General Rocky Meade’s decision to officially decline the appointment of Cabinet secretary is an indictment on the Public Service Commission (PSC) and the Government, a civil-society advocate and the parliamentary Opposition have...
People’s National Party (PNP) President Mark Golding says the party made several offers to St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna prior to her announcement not to seek re-election when the current political cycle ends. Those offers...
Lieutenant General Rocky Meade’s appointment as Cabinet secretary has been met with scepticism by former senior civil servants who have expressed concern that it may not be in keeping with a provision of the Jamaican Constitution. Meade, the former...
Michael Millwood’s construction company Millard Development has been forced to abandon a sewer main project along Constant Spring Road after staunch resistance from residents. In a September 5 letter to Garth Jackson, the National Water Commission...
Mark Golding and the People’s National Party (PNP) have registered improved figures in their positive performance ratings, a year after poll numbers spelt trouble for the opposition party bedevilled by infighting and resignations. The opposition...
Mico University College President Dr Asburn Pinnock is advising the Government to regularise teacher migration by training and exporting the services as an income-earner, amid the challenges facing the sector. Pinnock’s proposal comes on the heels...
WITH THE monumental support of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) behind her, former People’s National Party (PNP) councillor Kari Douglas is expecting to come out on top in what should be a fierce contest against Jesse James Clarke for the...
The Government is moving to expand its ban on single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam amid large corporations’ engagement in unethical but legal practices to sidestep restrictions while maintaining profits. The expansion is expected to come...
National Workers Union (NWU) General Secretary Granville Valentine says the Ministry of Education’s announcement that bursars will not be impacted by the new payroll system to be implemented in schools is a “smokescreen”. Valentine, in a Gleaner...
Construction on the St Thomas leg of the Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project has been a torment for several major distribution companies, significantly impacting logistics and other operational activities. But National Works Agency (NWA)...
