The now-troubled board of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) meets today amid the developing scandal over how more than $500 million was spent on an IT project at the institution that is now four years past its delivery date. The...
George Wright returned to the House of Representatives on Tuesday in a snub to critics as the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) bristled at the prospect of having the man accused of battering a woman with a stool sit on its side of the...
THE HEART/NSTA Trust says it has now provided to the finance ministry information sought on an unauthorised tax it has imposed on hundreds of travelling officers. However, in its latest communication to staff, the agency did not say whether it...
Criminal defence lawyers weary of Parliament granting powers of appeal to the country’s main prosecutorial body need to “grow up” and enter the 21st century, Paula Llewellyn, the state’s chief prosecutor, has argued. “The pendulum of justice must...
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) was forced to seek the intervention of the HEART/NSTA Trust board chairman in March to get the agency to explain an unauthorised tax on travelling officers, documents show. HEART falls under the direct...
An unusual relationship between government and a private school notwithstanding, it is unfortunate that any school on the island should close. But closing is a real possibility for the Western Hospitality Institute. Interestingly, the school's...
The Holness administration has played down concerns that acting Permanent Secretary Dr Grace McLean’s authority in the education ministry poses a conflict of interest to the ongoing investigation of programmes for which she held responsibilities...
The more than 1,500 employees of the HEART/NSTA Trust are expected to get some clarity on the troubled leadership of the national training agency today when senior officials speak to them on “strategic matters”. Concerns have been mounting among...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is yet to indicate whether it will revoke the permit violated by Bengal Development Company, the entity that wants to mine limestone in the ecologically sensitive Dry Harbour Mountains on the...
While Prime Minister Andrew Holness agreed with those who said Major General Antony Anderson’s and Ainsley Powell’s contracts should be a matter of public record but pointed out that there were complicated legal hurdles to traverse...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the employment contracts of the police and tax commissioners should be made public. However, he said there may be “legal hurdles” that have to be surmounted before the documents for Major General Antony Anderson...
Over the last two decades, only three academics at The University of the West Indies (UWI) appealed decisions not to promote them to professorship, an administrator has disclosed to back up claims of an “objective” selection process. Growing...
Jamaica Labour Party Councillor Kari Douglas was last night arrested and charged for assaulting and obstructing the police during in operation in Swallowfield, St Andrew yesterday evening. The incident took place about 8:30 p.m., half an hour...
There is more scrutiny on the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) over whether officials there had flagged problems with the JAMCOVID application months ago and well before last week’s shocking discovery that thousands of travellers’ person data was...
The chief internal auditor at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) and the chairperson of the audit committee are today expected to defend reports they crafted detailing what appeared to be a culture of unresponsiveness by the...
The fight to block mining in the ecologically sensitive Puerto Bueno Mountains on Jamaica’s northern coast is heading to the Supreme Court as residents are suing the Government and the mining company for alleged breaches of constitutional rights....
Weeks of agony ended in jubilation recently for more than a dozen students of Penwood High School in St Andrew, who have now learnt they did not all fail the 2020 English language exam offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Last...
The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) has declared that it has nothing to hide after the Auditor General’s Department (AuGD) halted an audit because of problems getting information. The UDC, the country’s main urban and rural development agency...
A company which was being entertained by the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) as it selected another for a multibillion-dollar contract that was not tendered to provide 30 fire trucks has written to the Integrity Commission seeking its intervention. The...
Jamaica is experiencing an “epidemic wave” in coronavirus cases, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has confirmed, while warning the region to prepare for a “rapid resurgence” of the virus that’s killed more than one million people...
The Holness administration is to “immediately improve” the tax write-off system to make it more transparent following a Sunday Gleaner report involving $4 billion wiped away since 2018, Finance and Public Service Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has said...
The Andrew Holness administration says it cannot comment substantively until it gets the official written judgment of a Supreme Court ruling that has shaken a national- security establishment now dependent on states of emergency (SOEs) to help...
In just a decade, Andrew Holness has achieved political glory in becoming the most powerful force in modern Jamaican politics, retiring some of his rival elders while humiliatingly condemning Jamaica’s oldest political party into an abyss with its...
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is on course for re-election today amid what is expected to be the country’s lowest voter turnout partly owing to the crippling effects of the coronavirus pandemic, pollster Don Anderson has calculated. The...
The National Housing Trust (NHT) and the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) may have to enter the ring to settle the political fight over the number of houses built in the last four years. The calls were triggered by Saturday’s national political...
