Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness’ court battle with the Integrity Commission (IC) is not expected to have significant impact on the Jamaica Labour Party’s push for a third term, campaign committee chair Dr Christopher Tufton has said. Tufton, who...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has criticised the leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), calling them “confused”, “desperate” and “without credibility” after recent comments about the politicisation of the rural school buses, government-...
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has admitted that closing 10 of its offices between 2020 and 2021 created a “trust deficit” with customers. This admission follows an impact assessment study commissioned by the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR...
Declaring that Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness could have been serving elsewhere in the world, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader Desmond McKenzie is urging supporters to remember the “goodness” of the prime minister in managing the country...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is pledging additional changes to the Integrity Commission Act that would make public the financials of Cabinet ministers, a move he said is a sign of good governance. Addressing a throng of People’s National Party (...
Declaring that the pending general election is one of the most crucial in Jamaica’s history, Cabinet Minister Desmond McKenzie has reiterated his stance that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will never surrender the government to the Opposition...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness is countering a statement made by Opposition Leader Mark Golding, asserting that prosperity is a journey, not a pleasure, while arguing that Jamaica is experiencing it. Golding, while speaking to People’s National...
More Jamaicans were denied temporary resident visas for Canada than any other CARICOM country’s people, including Haiti, on the grounds of “misrepresentation”. Between January 2024 and May 31, 2025, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader Desmond McKenzie says the St Elizabeth North Eastern constituency must never return to the fold of the People’s National Party (PNP), urging voters to give Delroy Slowley a second term in office. McKenzie,...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding is urging People’s National Party (PNP) supporters not to succumb to pressure he said will come from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) for their votes in the coming general election. Golding, who was speaking at the...
Asians make up the largest number of people requesting an extension of stay in Jamaica, accounting for 46 per cent of the 10,146 aliens registered in 2024, according to Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) records. In its latest Economic and Social...
Attorney-at-law CHUKWUEMEKA Cameron has criticised a stance of the Supreme Court that members of parliament and public officials implicitly consent to the verification of their assets when they submit their statutory declarations, calling it a “...
Opposition Senator Damion Crawford has dismissed the Government’s announcement to invest $1 billion in a school breakfast programme, calling it inadequate and politically motivated. He pointed out that the plan, aimed at feeding 69,000 students,...
Nearly one in three Jamaicans say they cannot identify a single area they believe the Dr Andrew Holness administration has excelled in since 2020, months before the next parliamentary election is due. At the same time, roughly one in four Jamaicans...
People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell says the political atmosphere across Jamaica is increasingly reminiscent of the 2011 election campaign that saw the PNP return to power in a landslide 41-22 victory over the Jamaica...
The Administrator General’s Department (AGD) says it does not perceive any conflict in overseeing the estate of Jodian Fearon, the young mother who died after being denied treatment at several hospitals in the Corporate Area five years ago. The...
Reading is to be returned to the primary-school timetable, says Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon, minister of education, skills, youth and information, who yesterday acknowledged there is a literacy crisis impacting schools across the country. Morris...
Jamaica is bracing for potential fallouts from the Donald Trump administration’s funding and job cuts at the primary weather forecasting agency in the United States, which supplies the island with some satellite information for local weather...
More than 70 per cent of the roughly 220 grade-seven students at Pembroke Hall High School are unable to read or do so only at a grade-three level, according to the school’s principal, Reverend Claude Ellis. Alarmingly, many of these students...
The opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is alleging that the Office of the Services Commission (OSC) rejected the application of an experienced candidate with intel background in favour of Dennis Chung for the job of chief technical director...
Jamaican students planning to study in the United States are being advised to clean up their social media accounts as the State Department pauses new student visa appointments and ramps up digital vetting procedures. The suspension stems from a...
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness says his Government intends to focus on what he calls the “local economy”, now that the nationally economy has been “fixed”. Holness, who is the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party, was speaking at a party meeting in...
Jamaica’s main political parties have flatly denied using Senate positions to settle internal party disputes, even as tensions simmered in St Andrew North Central and a quarrel erupted over a selection decision in Kingston Central. Their rejection...
Legislators from both major political parties in Jamaica agree that reforms to the country’s campaign financing laws are necessary though they differ on the specifics of what those changes should entail. Dr Horace Chang, general secretary of the...
Opposition Leader Mark Golding has criticised the position taken by Cabinet Minister Matthew Samuda for the National Water Commission (NWC) to bypass the local health board in the submission of water quality reports, calling it “childish and petty...
