Stories by Romario Scott

Olivia Grange, the minister of gender, culture, entertainment and sport, has disclosed that a number of shelters are being built for victims of abuse even as the government moves to facilitate permanent housing solution for the family of two girls...

At the end of June, the tenure of United States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno will come to an end, this after having spent four years in the post.At a farewell ceremony hosted by Moreno at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday,...

The Andrew Holness administration has so far been receiving positive feedback from stakeholder groups for its performance in wake of its one-year anniversary since being voted into office.The chief executive officer of the Jamaica Environment Trust...

Heath Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has turned back stinging criticisms from his opposition counterpart over the issue of noxious fumes choking patients and staff at the Cornwall Regional Hospital in St James.Horace Dalley on Friday launched an...

Dwayne Vaz, the member of parliament (MP) for Central Westmoreland, is convinced that injecting millions of dollars through massive government investments is the only way to assist his constituency in addressing its social and infrastructural ills....

Prime Minister Andrew Holness last week declared that the public-sector transformation reform on which the Government has embarked is a national policy.Speaking at Jamaica House in Kingston, the prime minister said his administration was seeking to...

Pearnel Charles Jr, state minister in the Ministry of National Security, last week extended an invitation to members of the Sizzla Youth Foundation and other key stakeholders to share with him the formula that resulted in a turnaround of the once...

Telecommunications company FLOW is offering customers whose private numbers were exposed in the 2017 residential telephone directory, a new private number, free of charge for a year.FLOW said that as part of its efforts to minimise negative impact...

The tourism and cargo-shipment sectors are set to record momentous growth as a result of an air-service agreement that was yesterday inked between the Jamaican and Canadian governments.The agreement, negotiated on the Jamaican Government's behalf by...

A former Barbadian prime minister is strongly suggesting that Jamaica and other Caribbean countries latch on to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to give the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) a boost of confidence.Speaking last Wednesday in the...

Everald Warmington, the state minister in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, has charged that some members of parliament (MPs) are lazy, this in light of being accused by the opposition spokesman on Transport and works of politically...