Education Minister Fayval Williams, says in excess of 73 thousand students have now been vaccinated against COVID-19. She gave the update in the House of Representatives yesterday. The government is aiming to vaccinate 65 percent of students in each school in order to...
Councillor Andrew Bellamy (left), Minister Floyd Green (center), Gabrielle Hylton (right) The Ministerial career of Agriculture Minister Floyd Green is hanging in the balance. This as the Minister is caught in the middle of a growing controversy that's embarrassing...
A former Solicitor General, Queen's Counsel, Michael Hylton, says a properly crafted mandatory vaccination law is likely to be constitutional. Mr. Hylton was speaking on Nationwide This Morning with Abka Fitz-Henley and Danielle Archer. Marjorie Gordon tells us more....
Western St. Thomas Member of Parliament, James Robertson, says a vaccine mandate from the government should come as soon as possible. He says the government must inevitably mandate vaccines in the interest of returning the country to a sense of normality. The five...
The Jamaica Manufactures and Exporters Association, JMEA, is calling for a re-evaluation of the no movement days after majority of its surveyed members declared a decline in productivity. The measure which is set to expire this evening was put in place to combat a...
A Ministry of Education report into the finances of the Merl Grove High School in St. Andrew, was critical of the principal's management of the school's staffing and payment of salaries. The report alleges that as the chief accounting officer of the institution, the...
A damning report into the financial management of the Merl Grove High School in St. Andrew shows millions of dollars were either misappropriated or unaccounted for at the institution. The audit carried out by the Ministry of Education for the period September 2017 to...
The National Covid-19 Vaccination Operationalisation Task Force will seek to expand current vaccination rates from one-hundred thousand a month to three times that number over a similar period. That was outlined by Task Force Chairman, Professor Gordon Shirley....
Various private sector and trade union groups have issued a joint statement outlining the possible scenarios in which an employee can be dismissed for failing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, if mandated by their employer. The advisory statement is signed by the Private...
Economist at the JMMB Group, Theodore Mitchell, says the government should utilize part of its surplus for the April to July period to provide low interest loans to micro, small and medium sized enterprises. Mr. Mitchell says a targeted approach is required to...