Financial Secretary Darlene Morrison has admitted that the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service has become aware of employment contracts that are in breach of the ministry’s policy and guidelines but noted that there are no prescribed...

The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) has penned a letter to Prime Minister Andrew Holness seeking audience following his announcement in Parliament on Tuesday that a COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test mandate is coming for public-sector workers....

There is mounting unease among surgical staff at the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine who are being forced to perform operations in simmering temperatures in the two operating theatres there. This is because the frequently malfunctioning air-.....

Stating that today’s criminals were more tech-savvy than those of the past and were using modern advances to outmanoeuvre cops, a senior clergyman yesterday called for a change in tactics to boost the police’s response to crime. Pastor Glen Samu...

A HEARTBROKEN Albert Reid struggled to recognise the lifeless body of his runaway 15-year-old daughter, Toni-Ann, after she and a man were slain by gunmen as they slept in bed in Roehampton, St James, yesterday morning. The other victim, 25-year-......

Administrators at the Denham Town High School in Kingston and the police are banding together to try to shield kids from recruitment into gangs and shelter them from violence, planning to ramp up their efforts as the students return for the...

WESTERN BUREAU: Fourteen years in the making, some 250,000 tourism workers now have access to a $1-billion Government-funded pension scheme. Launched at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Wednesday morning, the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (...

Worried that her boys could be sucked into the cycle of violence plaguing the area, a Kingston Central mother has expressed a willingness to share her Wi-Fi password with cops to accommodate a security post at her Sutton Street gate. The mother had....

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has issued a stern warning to the Ministry of Education, declaring that it runs the risk of falling victim to fraud, unauthorised withdrawals, and significant bank errors because of its failure to prepare its...

Evergreen lawmaker and government minister Karl Samuda has slammed critics of the retention of veterans in the Holness Cabinet, arguing that “disrespect” for senior statespersons was born out of ageism. Samuda, the labour and social security...

WESTERN BUREAU: Noelle Jackson was seated on an American Airlines flight that had just taxied off from the Norman Manley International to Miami Monday morning when she was compelled to appeal to the crew to return to the gate. “I knew something wa...

Footballer Javannie Thompson was warming up on a playing field in his Old Harbour housing scheme on Sunday as he prepared for a community game that day. But after a completing two laps, eyewitnesses watched as he clutched his chest in anguish and......

When Godfrey Perkins last spoke with his son Garth in December, he told him that he was quietly enjoying the Christmas season. Perkins said he was satisfied, as any parent would be, that his son was fine. But late Monday, the peace that had...

Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has announced a suite of administrative changes to the approval process for building applications amid public backlash and chastening court judgments about negligence, or worse, in its inspection oversight. Among the.....

The new Holness Cabinet has been criticised as top-heavy and inefficient, with Opposition Leader Mark Golding describing Monday’s reshuffle as “a trivial exercise” that will add to taxpayers’ burdens. Golding accused the Government of using ...

The Government piled an additional $25.8 billion on to its recurrent budget for this fiscal year, which ends in March. Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke tabled on Tuesday a second Supplementary Estimates showing plans to spend $893.05 billion for...

Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it has recovered salary overpayment of a little more than $19 million for the last two financial years, but the department has failed to make full disclosure on the extent of excessive sums paid to workers. A......

Under-fire National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang and Transport and Mining Minister Robert Montague are the big survivors in a Cabinet reshuffle that saw Prime Minister Andrew Holness retaining all cards in his deck in what has been described......

On his 40th birthday and just 117 days after he was forced to resign in shame, Floyd Green, considered one of the brightest sparks in the Holness administration, was reappointed to the Cabinet. The two-term St Elizabeth South Western member of...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ assembly of key members of the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) election machinery under his wing has caught the eye of political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, who said the administration is fine-tuning its organisation ...