Government ministers Floyd Green and Senator Dr. Dana Morris Dixon are defending the appointment of Darlene Morrison as permanent secretary of the new Ministry of Mining and Geology. Morrison's reassignment from the post of financial secretary has been met with...
Member of Parliament for South West St. Elizabeth, Floyd Green, says residents of the community of Parottee have been properly consulted about the government's voluntary relocation plans for the fishing community. Green was responding to comments from Opposition...
The removal of Science and Social Studies assessments from the Grade Six aspect of the Primary Exit Profile, PEP, will remain in effect for the 2027 sitting. Education Minister, Senator Dr. Dana Morris-Dixon, says the change was kept as the country continues to...
All of the remaining third country nationals, TCNs, who arrived in Jamaica on October 13, are set to depart the country in short order. Information Minister, Senator Dr. Dana Morris-Dixon, provided the update at Wednesday's post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica...
The National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority, NaRRA, is to benefit from a four-year partnership between the Jamaican and UK governments. The initiative will begin with a one-year programme, worth £10 million or just over JM $2 billion. This will be funded...
Former president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, Helene Davis Whyte, is echoing a call by the Jamaica Civil Service Association, JCSA, for the prime minister to either apologise or account for his allegations of sabotage by public servants in the...
A senior trade unionist, Helene Davis Whyte, says there's nothing suspicious about Darlene Morrison's transfer to the mining and geology ministry from the finance ministry. Davis Whyte is a former president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions, JCTU. She was...
An insult to the intelligence of the descendants of slavery! That's how State Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Alando Terrelonge, is labelling UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch's recent comments regarding the transatlantic slave trade. In an interview...
Executive director of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute, CAPRI, Dr. Damien King, says Jamaican houses not built to code number in the hundreds of thousands. Dr. King was speaking on Nationwide at Five on Thursday about CAPRI's latest study, which analyses the...
The government's post-Hurricane Melissa recovery efforts are being hampered by the protracted use of the robust disaster financing it had secured. That's according to Caribbean Policy Research Institute, CAPRI, in a study titled "Higher Ground: Lessons from Hurricane...