Stories by Jovan Johnson

In another major cost-saving venture, the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has said that by next year, it will come off the grid of the Jamaica Public Service (JPS), the island's sole power distributor.The university recently...

Stunned by the allegations that money from a multibillion-dollar Clarendon road project, which has missed its March 2016 completion deadline, was used to cover a $7-million hotel bill, the Government is now demanding that the parliamentary...

Court of Appeal President, Justice Dennis Morrison, has questioned whether a court should "box" itself into the "rigidity" of procedures and miss potentially useful contributions in a gay man's challenge to Jamaica's buggery law.The top judge said...

Some 3,000 business process outsourcing (BPO) jobs are expected to be created from the construction of a building at the Portmore Informatics Park (PIP) in St Catherine, a move Prime Minister Andrew Holness said would help to reduce crime."...

A government on the hunt for money to fund its programmes has invoked its legal power to take approximately $2 billion from the National Housing Trust (NHT), the same entity that's expected to be called on to give more budgetary support for the next...

Jamaicans will know today how much revenue the Government will target for the upcoming fiscal year when the National Budget for the 2017-2018 financial year is tabled in the Parliament.Today also marks the opening of the Parliament for the 2017-2018...

Jamaicans could have their constitutionally guaranteed rights infringed on by the Andrew Holness administration as it attempts to arrest the crime surge.An indication that this could happen has come from the finance minister's chief technical...

The head of the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), Enid Ross-Stewart, told a committee of the nation's Parliament yesterday that pastors and policemen - two groups in which the nation places great trust - are among...

Dr Fritz Pinnock, the executive director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), shed tears on Tuesday as he watched lawmakers approve legislation to grant university status to the 37-year-old institution. "It has been a journey. It is more...

State Minister Everald Warmington has suggested that parliamentarians confront Finance Minister Audley Shaw during March’s Budget debate in another attempt to get approximately $140 million that the Social Development Commission (SDC) owes...

The saga involving the controversial bush-clearing work has taken another turn because of statements contradicting E.G. Hunter, the chief executive officer of the National Works Agency (NWA). As a result, consideration is now being given to having...