The Chairman of the Government's Economic Growth Council, Michael Lee Chin, is clarifying his 5-percent growth target. Last week, Mr. Lee Chin had pledged that Jamaica would achieve 5-percent economic growth in four years. Following the announcement, Opposition...
President of the Medical Association of Jamaica, MAJ, Dr. Myrton Smith says he's concerned that the Cornwall Regional Hospital has not been able to identify the source or nature of a chemical leak since last week. The noxious fumes have sent a number of interns and...
The Police in St. James are this afternoon searching for a female sex worker following the robbery and shooting of an American doctor in Granville last night. It's understood that the man, who's a gynecologist, engaged the services of the sex worker before he was...
The Jamaica Stock Exchange, JSE is urging members of the public and those in the financial sector not to open a fraudulent email that's been circulating. The subject of the email is JSE Notice. The message claims there are accumulated dividends on an individuals...
The Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Organization of Jamaica, PSOJ, Dennis Chung, says the Government will need to establish a compensation scheme based on worker productivity, if it wants to end the brain drain in the public sector. He says the brain...
The Ministry of Health is urging the public to be cautious in the preparation and consumption of ackee to avoid poisoning. This as two cases of ackee poisoning have been reported since the start of the year. The country's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Winston De La Haye,...
Education Minister, Ruel Reid and his Opposition counterpart, Ronald Thwaites clashed at the Standing Finance Committee of Parliament this morning. Officials from the Education Ministry along with Opposition members are currently going through the line items in the...
Nationwide News understands that there's disquiet at the Seventh-day Adventist-owned Northern Caribbean University, NCU, after the University's leadership entered into an agreement with E-Med Air Ambulance Jamaica, to research, cultivate, and process medicinal...
Opposition Leader, Portia Simpson-Miller, is condemning the murder of the two missionaries. Mrs. Simpson-Miller is also lamenting the recent wave of murders across the country. In a statement this afternoon, Mrs. Simpson Miller says Randy Hentzel and Harold Nichols...
INDECOM's Commissioner, Terrence Williams, says he's concerned that the State has not put in place adequate measures to safeguard the lives of inmates in custody. Commissioner Williams says there was a commitment by the former-administration to reform the Detention...