The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) Group invested almost a half-billion dollars of taxpayers’ money in start-up First Rock Capital Holdings (FRCH), despite an initial board recommendation against the move, a Gleaner investigation has found......

AAJ BOARD MEETINGS January 23, 2019 • Proposal discussed to amend the AAJ Group Investment Policy to allow for investments in stocks and IPOs. • Discussion of investment offers from Sterling Investments Limited (SIL) and First Rock Capital....

Deaths that can be directly linked to the shortage of bulk oxygen at some public hospitals two weeks ago are grounds for legal action against Jamaican health authorities, legal experts have suggested. The lawsuits could be filed against the State......

Just over a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the Mu strain of COVID-19 a “variant of interest”, Jamaica confirmed 26 cases on Thursday, triggering concern locally about its potential to evade protection provided by vacci...

Taxpayers are still financing multimillion-dollar salaries for the scandal-scarred Ruel Reid and Fritz Pinnock, the putative heads of Jamaica College (JC) and Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), respectively, who have gone on leave since 2019....

Administrators at Edward Seaga Primary School in Kingston are seeking to increase participation of students in remote learning for the academic year that began on Monday. Acting principal Shernet Clarke-Tomlinson told The Gleaner that...

Popular Arnett Gardens community activist George Phang, who miraculously survived 19 bullets in 2003, was yesterday advised to consult his personal physician before taking the COVID-19 vaccine. Phang told The Gleaner that the advice was given...

A seven-month timeline has been given to the Gordon Shirley-led COVID-19 task force to ramp up the country’s vaccination rate as the new COVID-19 variant, Mu, threatens an already buckling health sector. Just over 600,000 Jamaicans have received....

Every day after Deron Daley leaves a blank canvas on Jamaica’s streets, pedestrians and motorists dump volumes of garbage for him to clean up after them. But that’s not the biggest concern weighing on the mind of the street-sweeper. It’s the f...

WESTERN BUREAU: The Trelawny Municipal Corporation has decided against moving the iconic fountain in Water Square, Falmouth, to facilitate the Usain Bolt statue. Councillors have opted to have the area redesigned to accommodate both. The decision....

The Chinese Garden gifted to Jamaica on its 50th year of Independence in 2012 and commemorating the island’s then 40-year anniversary of diplomatic relationship with the People’s Republic of China has been ravaged by tropical storms Grace and Id...

Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported that the Mu variant of COVID-19 is in Jamaica. According to the minister, of 90 samples tested, 26 were positive for the variant. He was speaking a short while ago during the weekly COVID...

While the Government has said it will not mandate the taking of COVID-19 vaccines at this time, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has not ruled out a change in heart – and policy – after an extensive public education campaign has bee exhausted. Quiz...

The death of a 19-year-old woman from Porus, Manchester, has sent her family into a tunnel of grief that seems to have no end in sight after she was diagnosed with diabetes upon contracting COVID-19. Health restrictions stripped the woman, who...

Pointing out that depression among her teachers forced her to abandon a meeting agenda this week, one St Thomas principal is concerned that there is reportedly no budget to retain the school’s guidance counsellor. With the pandemic forcing schools...

WESTERN BUREAU: Six months after the Government announced that it was seeking to acquire a genome sequencer to test samples and determine variants of the coronavirus, the country is still no closer to knowing when the device will become available......

WESTERN BUREAU: Arguing that some Jamaicans may not be grasping the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and understanding the need to be vaccinated, two Westmoreland leaders are calling for the messaging to be simplified. Custos Hartley Perrin...

CVM TV is on a collision course with the National Workers Union (NWU), one of the trade unions representing contract and full-time employers, which has threatened to take industrial action if the television station does not withdraw a controversial....

Jamaica's Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor McKenzie on Thursday night reported improvements in the key indicators of the COVID management but warned that the strict containment measures have to continue.

Two police divisional heads have vowed not to give up the fight in apprehending five escapees, three from Kingston Eastern and two from St Andrew South, the latter having been on the run for a month. Convicted criminals Roland Scully, 30, and...