Slamming the Government’s thrust to establish Portmore into a parish as “nonsensical”, the municipality’s mayor, Leon Thomas, says the move is merely an attempt to gain control of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation. But government member of...
Significant vulnerabilities in Jamaica’s cyberinfrastructure have rendered the country a “soft target” for ransomware, placing the island nation firmly within the cross hairs of “disrupted” cyber gangs. Local banks are among corporate bodies...
A major data security breach at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Manchester could cost the Adventist-run institution millions of dollars as hackers have encrypted accounting and other files and are demanding payment for their release. A...
The National Commercial Bank (NCB) has indicated that it will not reverse its decision to increase fees, which took effect earlier this month, despite protest from customers and a caution from the Government that the banking sector’s disregard for...
The Jamaica Bankers’ Association (JBA) has defended the decision of two of its member institutions to introduce new and increased fees to customers, insisting that local banks have suffered greatly since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Both...
Shanique Armstrong, the 27-year-old woman who accused healthcare workers of callous ambivalence as she reportedly delivered her baby unassisted at Spanish Town Hospital in May last year, has died without getting closure on that tragedy. The young...
When storm-like conditions years ago threatened to capsize the vessel a young Antonette Wemyss Gorman was commanding, a verbal lashing from the feisty captain caused panicky crew members to regroup and steady the ship. The crew had left the...
Dismissing sporadic calls for the disbandment of the army, Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman has described the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) as the backbone of the State and the axis of major disaster-response operations, including the coronavirus...
The history-making incoming leader of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has backed the use of states of emergency (SOEs) as a crime-fighting tool but acknowledges concerns about the increased deployment of the military in civilian security operations...
A departure from the bauxite production levy on Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II in 2018 in favour of a profit-share agreement may have cost the Government US$81 million in earnings, but Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has cautioned against “...
Denying that Jamaica’s porous borders have created a safe haven for international criminals and suspects, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson said on Sunday that an intelligence-driven operation led to the apprehension of former...
Jamaica’s already frightening murder figures of more than 1,400 last year could have skyrocketed closer to 2,000 had it not been for the efforts of the police in intercepting nearly 400 attempts at committing homicides, head of the Jamaica...
In the wake of public condemnation of its oversight breaches and the interdiction of senior officials, Mayor Delroy Williams has proposed an overhaul of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation’s (KSAMC) Planning Department into two units...
When Godfrey Perkins last spoke with his son Garth in December, he told him that he was quietly enjoying the Christmas season. Perkins said he was satisfied, as any parent would be, that his son was fine. But late Monday, the peace that had...
A decision by the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) not to renew the contract of Jamaica Association of Public Dental Surgeons (JAPDEN) president Dr Vanessa Kiffin is courting labour unrest, the Union Of Clerical, Administrative...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ assembly of key members of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) election machinery under his wing has caught the eye of political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, who said the administration is fine-tuning its organisation for...
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has rejected as misguided Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ strategy to halt runaway coronavirus infections, insisting that the proposed ramping up of vaccination could not stave off the current avalanche of...
Dozens of hospital staff islandwide are in isolation following a surge in COVID-19 infections amid a global eruption of the Omicron variant, limiting outpatient care and halting surgical operations at some facilities. For the first time since...
There are concerns in the medical field about the accuracy of COVID-19 tests being conducted by private facilities as well as suggestions that false negatives are being arrived at because of poor technique. The issue came to the fore on Wednesday...
There were no last-minute attempts by Haitian authorities to secure the extradition of Mario Antonio Palacios, one of the key suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, from Jamaica to the French-speaking country on Monday....
The Government may have to revert to its work-from-home (WFH) mandate, which ended last week for the public sector, amid heightened uncertainty around the highly contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus which causes COVID-19, but stakeholders...
The Government is facing a conundrum with the planned resumption of face-to-face classes on January 3 and a steady increase in COVID-19 cases as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues its rampage globally, but Health and Wellness...
Jamaica’s runaway crime rate has served as impetus for the full transformation of Kingston into a smart city, fuelling high expectations that heavy investments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) will deliver positive results. “...
The Greg Christie-led Integrity Commission is under increasing pressure to revisit the court matter involving former Hanover Western Member of Parliament Ian Hayles, almost five years after the Supreme Court granted an injunction blocking the...
The economic impact of the pandemic on consumers has become more pronounced with a decline in retail sales for the holiday period, but senior economists have said that there is very little the Government can do to loosen the screws of inflationary...
