The parliamentary Opposition has been caught snoring for the better part of a year in which thunderous calls were made for a commission of enquiry to be convened into the May 2010 police-military blitz in West Kingston.
WESTERN BUREAU:Stakeholders in Montego Bay, St James, are offering mixed views on a proposal by the Parish Development Committee (PDC) to establish a craft village inside the area known as the "elegant corridor", the city's premier tourism belt.
For the denizens of the fairyland world of economics, where resources and policy outcomes may be easily conjured, the announcement last week would likely be of little worth and little noticed.
This column will seek to delve deep into the bowels of the various enactments coming out of and being considered by Parliament, with a view to facilitating informed public discourse. In this first piece, we will look at the Charities Act which was recently passed in Parliament.
Western Bureau:Chairman of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean Karl James has warned that Jamaica's bid to remain a top-flight sugar-producing nation could end by 2020 if local producers do not move with the times.
Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Edmund Bartlett is urging the Government to address concerns by some Jamaicans that a heavy Chinese economic infusion into Jamaica could negatively affect the country's sovereignty.
DESPITE AN increase in the education tax, primarily to finance the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB), funding to the State-lending institutions has been cut by $1 billion in the revised Estimates of Expenditure, which has been tabled in the House of...
THE FAILURE of Government actors to pin down the details for the construction of barracks for the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has resulted in the project been pushed back to next fiscal year.
The principal of the St James-based Anchovy High School, Lambert Robinson, has expressed tremendous disappointment after the Government shelved plans to allocate money for the setting-up of a second campus for the school at the nearby Montpelier facility.
Twenty-six-year-old Richard Benjamin, one of about 40 persons scammed in an overseas employment racket exposed by The Sunday Gleaner last week, said he opted for the "back-door deal" because he was desperate.
The vexing problem of deaf Jamaicans not being able to pass English at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level could soon be a thing of the past.
The Ministry of Education has embarked on a review of the Education Code to include a policy on the reintegration of school-age mothers into the formal education system.
Faced with the prospect that scores of schools could have their electricity supply disconnected because of unpaid bills, the Government has allocated just under $65 million to educational institutions to pay their light bills.
The Government has postponed its planned expenditure on a programme for the reduction of maternal and child mortality in Jamaica at a time when the international aid agency, Save the Children, is reporting that one million babies worldwide die on their first day of life.
Head of Women's Affairs Bureau sent home after audit findingsThe Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has confirmed that executive director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs, Faith Webster, has been interdicted and is receiving half pay following...