Stories by Jovan Johnson

The country's main anti-corruption body says that it will now have to intensify a probe into the US$720 million North-South Highway contract between the Government and the China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).Contractor General Dirk Harrison...

Most of the 1,200 acres of prime lands that the Jamaican Government has already provided to the Chinese developers of the North-South Highway was not valuated, and that is "untidy", a lawmaker has told the state agency representing the Government's...

Dubbing himself "The Great Implementer", Education Minister Ruel Reid is reporting that schools have been managing well and without the chaos he claims was predicted by naysayers critical of the abolition of the auxiliary fee system.And he appears...

Opposition Senators have accused the Government and some of its agencies, including the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), of not being aggressive enough in ensuring that Jamaica makes use of its portion of a £300-million UK grant (J$54-billion)...

Three hundred and four children (0-17) have been murdered over the last five years, and Education Minister Ruel Reid reports that schools, where some of the incidents have happened, are now seeing a decline in violence.He made the disclosure...

Don't expect "strong" opposition from the Jamaican diaspora in the United States to legislation proposed to tax remittances sent to countries like Jamaica, Irwine Clare, a key New York member, said.The tax would be used to fund the wall President...

Some residents of west Kingston who received compensation arising from the deadly May 2010 security-force operation are to get more money based on the preliminary report submitted by a state-appointed compensation committee.But, according to Justice...

The Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) has branded as "unacceptable" a proposal it says has come from the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) for local professionals to participate in the designing of a new parliamentary building on a "voluntary...

Councillors and political representatives at the parish level are to get their own offices in a $515 million financing arrangement announced Wednesday by Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie.He said $400 million will go towards providing...

A member of the Andrew Holness-led Cabinet has spoken out, saying Jamaica is not being serious or decisive about whether it will pursue a medical marijuana industry, days after a United States-based advocacy group said Jamaica could embarrassingly...

The powerful interest groups that led public calls for the Government to review the revised property tax regime implemented on April 1 are expressing satisfaction with the changes announced yesterday, which will see a fall in rates and the level of...