As news of the assassination of modern Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reverberated around the world, unspoken grief consumed millions in the East Asian country, just over six decades after the famous killing of Inejiro Asanuma,...
Members of the joint select committee reviewing the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill on Thursday struggled to find consensus on a recommendation by the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) to determine how complaints against educators are handled...
Lawmakers have pushed back against an Integrity Commission recommendation for legislative amendments to the 2017 Integrity Commission Act to include additional declaration of their assets, calling it “invasive and inappropriate”. They have also...
The business community in St Catherine has criticised the Government’s decision not to seek an extension of the state of emergency (SOE), challenging that the 14-day respite is not enough to repel criminals wreaking havoc in the Old Capital....
Concessionaires of Highway 2000 have said that they will not defer this year’s rate increases after losing millions of dollars in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Toll Authority of Jamaica CEO Lerone Laing made the disclosure on...
The Government is maintaining that the country received value for money despite Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed quest to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as the Commonwealth secretary general. It is not...
One of the country’s most senior diplomats has pinned Kamina Johnson Smith’s loss in her bid for the post of Commonwealth secretary general (SG) on an about-turn by some African nations, allowing Baroness Patricia Scotland to continue her mandate...
Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, who is seeking to become Commonwealth secretary general, has cautioned against singling out member states struggling with less than perfect human rights records on the premise that “it’s not...
Kamina Johnson Smith on Wednesday rejected assertions of running a divisive campaign that threatens the consensus-based foundations of the Commonwealth of Nations, insisting that her quest for the role of secretary general is to reshape the...
Concerns are mounting that porous vetting processes and lax disciplinary mechanisms in Jamaica’s public schools may be shielding dangerous educators who have remained in the classroom despite being guilty of physical and sexual abuse. But a...
With no public pledge of support ahead of the expected Commonwealth secretary general election this week in Kigali, Tuvalu’s candidate Sir Iakoba Italeli is banking on last-minute wooing to corral heads of government in the Rwandan capital....
Canada-based Jamaican farm workers who are sending money to multiple families back home are driving the increase in remittances from the North American country, one money-transfer service is reporting. The disclosure was made by VM Money Transfer...
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitz Bailey has said that it is time other arms of the criminal justice system shoulder more of the crime-fighting responsibility as the police redouble efforts to cool the country’s simmering crime monster....
Deputy Commissioner Fitz Bailey has shot down a state minister’s suggestion for the Police High Command to negotiate with gangsters amid a 6.3 per cent increase in murders. Bailey, who heads the crime portfolio in the Jamaica Constabulary Force,...
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has hinted at a pact between Secretary General Patricia Scotland and some African countries within the Commonwealth that could derail Jamaican Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s...
Colombian cartels are believed to have reduced their leverage of Jamaica as a trans-shipment hub for illicit drugs into the United States, but that development has not pushed the partnership off the radar of the police, Major General Antony...
Communications surveillance is being used by the police and their international partners to intercept organised crime, including the shipment of illegal guns, but Jamaica’s police chief has sought to downplay the scale of its use in intelligence...
The Supreme Court has encouraged the management of Jamaica College (JC) and its Old Boys’ Association President Major Basil Jarrett to settle their ongoing feud through other means, following a months-long quarrel that has spilled over into the...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday issued a call to the country’s most unscrupulous players in the criminal underworld, arguing that there is a space for them in the formal economy. The call came during the unveiling of the Amber HEART...
Washington has doubled down on its decision to exclude several neighbouring states from next week’s Summit of the Americas, drawing on its position as host country to dictate attendance. The decision to exclude Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua –...
Jamaica Zoo, where a lion recently ripped off the finger of a taunting employee, does not have a licence to operate as an attraction, the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has confirmed. In fact, the state agency said that zoo owner Paul...
At least one government senator has cautioned against moving too quickly to promulgate new legislation aimed at protecting the elderly, noting that an assessment of existing legislation must first be considered. Speaking on Friday in the Lower...
More than 2,000 educators are expected to be impacted by the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill currently before Parliament’s joint select committee following a requirement of at least a bachelor’s degree to satisfy qualification. Representatives of...
Jamaicans are expected to pay higher prices for medication as the pharmaceutical industry reels from skyrocketing freight charges for prescription and non-prescription drugs. Stakeholders have said that the logistical nightmare stemming from the...
The Government is banking on Jamaica’s robust childhood inoculation record for success as it makes a renewed push to procure COVID-19 vaccines for five- to 11-year-olds and to blunt school disruptions amid a fifth wave of the virus. The decision to...
