Love her or hate her, Paula Vanessa Llewellyn, Jamaica’s first female and outgoing director of public prosecutions (DPP) – the Government’s chief prosecutor – has courage. Lots of it. The girl who grew up believing she was ugly, outfitted with real...
Pamela Monroe-Ellis could not have imagined that her carefree days in St Mary sailing down the hill from her house on coconut boughs – the only girl among several cousins and brothers – was preparation for the job she now holds as Auditor General...
Audrey Tugwell could have held down an evening or night job as a radio announcer among some of the finest female voices to have graced Jamaican radio in the early 1980s. The alluring voice was, still is, as captivating as it is convincing. Instead...
A half-century since the People’s National Party (PNP) swept to power on the shoulders of its charismatic late former leader Michael Norman Manley, and on a promise that “better must come”, the party’s dreams, visions and efforts for a more...
Omar Anglin swears that if his eyes did not stray to the computer screen of the Wexford Court Hotel general manager who was about to interview him for a job to wash pots in the hotel’s kitchen, he may have been condemned to a short life expectancy...
Today, his remains could have been nearly 20 years old, but instead, his life was saved by a certificate of excellence in instructional technology mounted on the wall of the August Town home he shared with family members. Ricardo Allen vividly...
Many Jamaicans who left their homeland in pursuit of better fortunes overseas have abandoned plans to return to the island as a result of its high murder rate. One diplomat serving on the world stage said Jamaica will continue to lose many of its...
The majority of Jamaicans are opposed to the idea of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for children or the wider populace, a Bill Johnson-Mello TV poll has found. The survey, which was conducted among 1,176 people in 84 communities between January 14...
It is hard to mistake Pamela Coke-Hamilton for anything other than the high-powered, heavyweight international trade expert, diplomat, attorney-at-law and trailblazer she is, yet too often she is wrongly seen as the secretarial accompaniment to...
Timar Jackson grew up in Bull Bay, St Andrew, and recalls that as a teenager he and his family once fled the community as the vicious cycle of gun violence raged and took with it several of his innocent young peers. But the super-private, high-...
Child-rights campaigner Betty Ann Blaine believes that despite some progress on the legislative front and the formation of more protection agencies over the last two decades, the nation’s children are in more danger today with heartless attacks...
A buoyant murder-for-hire industry – through which Jamaicans engage marksmen to settle domestic disputes, disrupt love affairs, get their hands on insurance money and to bump off business partners – is believed to be the main driver behind the bulk...
Howard Mitchell loves Jamaica. Passionately. Jamaica has always been the bright, beautiful and feisty girl he wants to marry. He has worked to please her, win her love, and finally gets her to say “I do”. After a rapturous honeymoon, all he wants...
Phillip Paulwell’s yet-to-be-written book will detail the feverish, closed-door negotiations for the exit of former People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller from the helm of the party in 2017 following its electoral defeat in...
A motor vehicle examiner, who is waiting for the court to hear his appeal against internal disciplinary charges in the Ministry of Transport after he was freed of corruption charges in the St Thomas Parish Court, is upset that his case has not been...
Aside from the fall of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Cabinet minister Floyd Green for breaches of the Disaster Risk Management Act (DRMA); the arrest and charge of House Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert for illegal dumping; and the ongoing search to...
Derrick Smith is not one to bear a grudge, but hurt is what he still feels from four consequential events he faced within the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to which he dedicated 40 years of his life. Always the gentleman, affable and non-...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has earned the ire of Political Ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown, who not only found him guilty of unbecoming political behaviour but ordered him to publicly apologise to the subject of his “demeaning” comments and pay...
Although saddled with the seemingly unshakeable burdens of crime, corruption, under-education and a huge social deficit as it takes a blow from the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith Duncan believes there is hope for Jamaica lying in social transformation,...
After losing an estimated $6 billion in produce and animals to thieves annually with little or no redress, and having seen at least 12 of their colleagues murdered this year alone, many of the island’s farmers are now awaiting the maturity of their...
Health officials are hoping that the island will be able to delay an expected fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic to give the sector more breathing space to recover from the devastating third hit, but administrators are still nervously...
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson is urging lawmakers in George William Gordon House not to bring disagreements to the chamber but instead seek consensus on the way forward before hurling abuses and showing aggression. Patterson, who retired...
Barbados’ transition to a republic last week has reignited talks locally of removing Queen Elizabeth as Jamaica’s head of state after more than a quarter-century of dithering. Prime Minister Andrew Holness last weekend also hinted at steps being...
With another storm gathering in the Ministry of Transport and Mining he now heads, Robert Montague is placing his political future in the hands of his St Mary Western constituents, even as the possibility exists that he could face a challenge for...
The Government is yet to incorporate pharmacists into its COVID-19 vaccination drive, months after sector players qualified to administer shots indicated their willingness to participate in the exercise to boost take-up of the jabs. Since The...
