The Commonwealth appointed its first female Secretary-General this morning. Leaders chose Dominica-born lawyer, Baroness Patricia Scotland, to take over the running of the 53-member organisation. She takes over from Indian diplomat Kamalesh Sharma on April 1 next...
President of the Jamaica Manufacturers Association, JMA, Metry Seaga, says the water crisis facing the country is causing some businesses to close early, as they try to cope. He says water restrictions imposed by the NWC in the Corporate Area, have forced some workers...
Member of Parliament for Western Hanover, the PNP's Ian Hayles, is this afternoon apologising to fellow MP and comrade, Luther Buchanan. This, after he declared that Mr. Buchanan -- who's the MP for Eastern Westmoreland -- had told him to challenge PNP veteran, Dr....
A pyrrhic victory! That's how Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Audley Shaw, is describing the decision of some trade unions to accept the government's 7-percent wage increase offer for the 2015-2017 contract period. Mr. Shaw is suggesting that there's not much to...
The governing PNP, is this afternoon congratulating delegates of the Jamaica Teachers Association for accepting the government's wage offer for the 2015-2017 contract period. In an almost 2-to-1 vote, JTA delegates attending the annual conference in St. James, voted...
The newly-stalled President of the JTA, Norman Allen, has ripped into the proposed Jamaica Teaching Council Bill, suggesting it's intended to punish teachers and rob them of their rights. Mr. Allen last night strongly criticized the proposed JTC Bill as he delivered...
Residents of Portmore St. Catherine are this afternoon being told to brace for restrictions in their water supply from the National Water Commission, NWC. This, as the NWC says it's being forced to take further steps to provide additional supply to people in the...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Michael Peart, is strongly condemning the conduct of South West St. Catherine MP Everald Warmington and is calling for strong disciplinary action to be taken against him. This after Mr. Warmington stuck his middle finger at...
Public Health Inspectors have become the latest category of workers to reject the government's 7-percent wage increase offer over two years, This, as wage negotiations between the government and public sector workers drag on. The Jamaica Association of Public Health...
A 17-year-old boy who was last week held with over half-a-million dollars cash in his possession has been charged. The boy, who has given investigators two Kingston addresses, was held last Friday on a coaster bus on the Wiltshire main road in Trelawny. He was found...