Jamaica-born British fraud examiner Karen Bailey believes Jamaica needs to enact more far-reaching legislation to counter identity theft, scams and a range of financial crimes, as it is still unprepared for the slew of ills that can be spawned in a...
Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has scoffed at the call by the opposition People’s National Party for him to resign over the deaths of 14 babies over a four-month period from a bacterial outbreak at the Victoria Jubilee Hospital...
Dr Jennifer Mamby-Alexander suspected she had breast cancer three years before she was officially diagnosed. During self-examination one day, she discovered a tiny grain in her breast and was sent to do a mammogram in the same United States-based...
Six years after the Government promised to rehabilitate the Broadgate, St Mary, thoroughfare, linking it to other corridors in the parish, the project is still in limbo and a constant source of frustration for residents and motorists. The major...
From child soldiers in some African nations to forced marriages of girls, some as young as eight years old, in the Middle East, United Nations Special Representative for Violence Against Children, Dr Najat Maalla M’jid, believes the current world...
Hailed as a visionary and charismatic titan, indelibly changing the business landscape wherever he goes, Jamaican/Canadian billionaire businessman Michael Lee-Chin was on Thursday inducted into the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) Hall...
Jamaican-Canadian billionaire Michael Lee-Chin cannot, without contradiction, be described as a hard-nosed businessman, but his knack for picking winners and his golden business touch have created worldwide footprints – and he seems to be just...
Public sector workers currently on – or those seeking to embark on – maternity leave will have to wait a while longer for the full payment of the third month’s salary, as the announced policy did not come into effect last Friday, as promised. Up to...
It would not be the first, second, or third time that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has attempted to help the hemisphere’s poorest nation get a grip on its internal problems, which are reaping murder, mayhem, and kidnappings, exposing Haiti as...
Even as she welcomes housing developments that have changed the landscape of Kingston and St Andrew in recent years, former Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) Director General, Dr Barbara Carby, believes the country is...
The National Executive Council (NEC) of the People’s National Party (PNP) is to decide whether the party will substitute the term ‘democratic socialism’ for ‘democratic left’, an apparent cosmetic change to the political party’s ideology that it...
Charismatic retired People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller is sorely missed by the man she appointed a senator in 2007 and who now heads the 84-year-old political movement she then led. Simpson Miller, whose political capital...
“Hi, I am Dickon Mitchell,” he said with hand outstretched at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, arriving with no fanfare, airs or stuffiness. Just three months after taking the reins of government in Grenada, Mitchell engaged in a wide-ranging discussion...
Love him or hate him, Father Sean Major-Campbell says what he means and owns what he says. Considered among the most controversial clergymen in Jamaica, some even call him the “gay people preacher” because he has invited to church those society...
Two years into the second term of the Holness administration – and just over six years since the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) took the reins of power – Jamaicans remain lukewarm about the performance of the Government and that of the prime minister...
The death of veteran broadcaster Francois St Juste sent shock waves throughout Jamaica and the diaspora last week, news which heralded shed and unshed tears, gut-punching pains of grief and sorrow, and none more evident than the on-air sadness of...
Former Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) head, Professor Gladstone Hutchinson, has described much of the furore over Jamaicans migrating to seek better opportunities abroad as noise. There is currently a high level of concern over attrition...
The name Don Anderson is synonymous with political polling in Jamaica, the statistician having crafted a prolific career through Market Research Limited, a firm he bought in 1975 after working with the company for four years. He first wet his feet...
Do not be fooled by his loud laughter, for Danville Walker can be deadly serious when he is laughing loudest. The former Jamaica Defence Force soldier does not belabour points, and once convinced on an issue, he does not suffer through...
Even a seasoned politician like Dr Horace Anthony Chang goes into shocked silence at the barbarity of some of the crimes committed in Jamaica. In a recent sit-down with The Sunday Gleaner, he recalled how his body and mind were jolted as details...
His résumé could cause one to believe that Danville Walker has had nomadic tendencies since returning to Jamaica in May 1997 to head the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ). But truth be told, he does not believe in hanging around once his expertise...
History-making British Member of Parliament (MP) Diane Abbott pulled on the Jamaican vernacular to describe the embattled Boris Johnson, calling him the architect of his political downfall as he fell on a sword of lies last week amid the collapse...
Kingsley Thomas may have left the public service, but his mind has not retired. Known as someone who shoots from the hip, his contemporaries still describe him with superlatives such as visionary, passionate, bold and fearless, many quick to admit...
Although acknowledging that Senator Kamina Johnson Smith ran a good race in her bid for secretary general of the Commonwealth, businessman and attorney-at-law Howard Mitchell said the whole affair was a bad idea from the get-go. “It was a bad deal...
Marianne Van Steen took up her post as the European Union (EU) ambassador to Jamaica in October 2020, just over six months after the first case of the coronavirus was detected in the island. It was the first time in her diplomatic career that she...
