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Published:Monday | November 20, 2023 | 12:07 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Jervis Moore, director of investigations at the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA), has called for greater partnership and cooperation between the public and private sectors and law enforcement in order to step up the fight...

Published:Friday | November 17, 2023 | 12:12 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

HEAD OF Fraud Prevention at the National Commercial Bank (NCB), Dane Nicholson, is urging the Government to craft legislation with tougher penalties for persons who devise fraudulent schemes to defraud customers of financial institutions. Citing...

Published:Wednesday | November 1, 2023 | 12:10 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs Marlene Malahoo Forte has raised questions about the Integrity Commission’s (IC) effectiveness in using the model of reviewing statutory declarations of public servants as a means of tackling corruption...

Published:Friday | October 27, 2023 | 12:08 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

JUSTICE MINISTER Delroy Chuck has accused his opposition counterpart Donna Scott-Mottley of “politicising” a comment he made about the disposal of properties belonging to persons who died without making a will. Scott-Mottley, in a news release...

Published:Friday | September 29, 2023 | 12:11 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

A majority of Jamaicans 18 years and over have voiced strong support for the country to replace the United Kingdom (UK)-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). An RJRGLEANER Communications Group-commissioned Don Anderson poll...

Published:Monday | September 11, 2023 | 12:09 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Deputy Leader of the People’s National Party (PNP) and Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley says her party is extremely disappointed that the Government has placed discussion on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on the backburner. Mottley, who...

Published:Monday | September 11, 2023 | 12:09 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Former National Security Minister Peter Bunting says the non-disclosure of the names of the six parliamentarians who are being investigated by the Integrity Commission (IC) for illicit enrichment could have a chilling effect on information sharing...

Published:Wednesday | August 16, 2023 | 12:11 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

FIVE MONTHS after missing its second target of March 2023 to complete data collection for the population census, the head of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) says the agency will not be revealing a new deadline at this time. STATIN...

Published:Tuesday | August 15, 2023 | 12:09 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has cautioned against “speculations” about the “nature of the illicit enrichment” for which six members of the Lower House are being investigated by the Integrity Commission (IC). In a Gleaner interview on Monday,...

Published:Saturday | August 12, 2023 | 12:09 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Revelations this week by the Integrity Commission (IC) that the six parliamentarians being probed for illicit enrichment have been notified of the investigations have again placed the spotlight on the so-called gag clause. Jeanette Calder,...

Published:Wednesday | July 12, 2023 | 12:05 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

IT WAS a matter that felt like life or death. Kenneth Myrie’s health was declining rapidly and he wanted a copy of his medical records dating back to 2004 to determine what type of medical procedure was carried out on him at the Kingston Public...

Published:Friday | June 2, 2023 | 1:43 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

A PARLIAMENTARY committee reviewing the Integrity Commission Act, 2017, yesterday delayed its decision on whether to accept a recommendation to remove the auditor general from the list of commissioners of the single anti-corruption body....

Published:Wednesday | May 31, 2023 | 1:13 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

FORMER JAMAICA Civil Service Association (JCSA) boss, O’Neil Grant, says his most significant achievement as president was the union’s work with the Government to retain hundreds of public sector jobs. This, they did, by forgoing wage increases in...

Published:Tuesday | May 30, 2023 | 1:28 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

O’NEIL GRANT, immediate past president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA), says that there could be an exodus of talent from executive agencies to central Government, owing to the competitive rates of salaries now being paid by the...

Published:Sunday | May 21, 2023 | 1:54 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Persons who modify, access, intercept, obstruct, interrupt or impair the computers, program, data or communications system of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) without authorisation under the Cybercrimes Act could find themselves in trouble with the...

Published:Friday | May 19, 2023 | 1:26 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

TWO POWERFUL private-sector bodies have called for urgent steps to be taken by the Government to pass a bill before Parliament that provides for the impeachment of parliamentarians found to be involved in corrupt practices and running afoul of the...

Published:Thursday | May 18, 2023 | 1:26 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

ECONOMIST AND financial analyst Dr Adrian Stokes has argued that the material increase in the cost of the public bureaucracy to Jamaicans has come without a commensurate guarantee of improved productivity. “This is a problem for a country that has...

Published:Tuesday | May 16, 2023 | 1:50 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

WHILE PRAISING Jamaica for stepping forward and leading a process to bring about a political solution to the crisis in Haiti, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has again made a strong appeal for a robust international police...

Published:Tuesday | May 16, 2023 | 1:43 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

UNITED NATIONS (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has described as “absolutely regrettable” the unfulfilled promises by developed countries to provide US$100 billion annually since 2020, in support of developing countries impacted by climate...

Published:Thursday | May 11, 2023 | 1:48 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

The severe problem of electricity theft in Jamaica, which has caused legal paying customers of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) to dig deeper into their pockets to defray the cost of those accessing power free of cost, could be reduced...

Published:Wednesday | May 10, 2023 | 12:58 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

FOLLOWING A flood of condemnation for an incident in which a female journalist was threatened with rape, and the same reporter and another media colleague castigated for wearing green at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) headquarters on Monday...

Published:Tuesday | May 9, 2023 | 1:10 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has signalled that it is taking steps this year to have members of the army who work alongside the police during operations to be outfitted with body-worn cameras. This comes against the backdrop of the acquisition...

Published:Friday | April 28, 2023 | 1:16 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

A proposed amendment to the Child Care and Protection Act, which prescribes a term of not less than 20 years before a minor found guilty of committing murder becomes eligible for parole, is being described as “absolute madness” by one rights group...

Published:Saturday | April 22, 2023 | 1:08 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

Five years after Cabinet gave approval for the National Compliance and Regulatory Authority (NCRA) to carry out the regulatory functions previously discharged by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), the Senate passed legislation on Friday to give...

Published:Friday | April 7, 2023 | 12:13 AMEdmond Campbell/Senior Staff Reporter

The leadership of the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) is peeved that up to Thursday, several public school educators had not received their March salaries which were due three weeks ago. Traditionally, teachers are paid early salaries in March,...

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