Chairman of the Education Transformation Oversight Committee, ETOC, Dr. Adrian Stokes, has announced a March 2023 timeline to get the education transformation programme fully underway. His announcement follows news that the process of recruiting a Project Lead and...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared that the country would have collapsed if a People's National Party, PNP, government had been in office when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Jamaica. Mr. Holness made the declaration at a handing over ceremony of 50 new garbage...
Chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, NSWMA, Dennis Chung, is calling for an increase in the fines and penalties for littering and poor garbage disposal practices. He says this will assist in addressing the state of cleanliness across the country....
A teacher at Homestead Primary in Spanish Town, St. Catherine says the poor behaviour of some students has not only gone un-addressed, but rewarded by the senior management at the school. A teacher we’ve named, Miss Black to protect her identity, says one child, in...
President of the of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, PSOJ, Keith Duncan, has indicated the private sector lobby group is prepared to support the Prime Minister if he decides to declare a new round of States of Emergency. Mr. Duncan's comments come as seven...
Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson, has ordered an investigation into the circumstances that led to the absence of full police honours at the funeral of police Corporal Oliver Mullings. It's understood the corporal, who was killed in the line of duty,...
President of the Senate, Tom Tavares Finson, has described as awkward the provision in the Constitution that allows the Senate to veto legislation from the House of Representatives. The Senate is the unelected upper House of Jamaica's Parliament, while the House of...
The Holness administration will be dealt a blow in the Senate today, as the 8 Opposition Senators are set to unanimously vote against an extension of the States of Public Emergency now in effect across the island. This means the emergency measures will come to an end...
Security forces seized 22 illegal firearms and made several arrests during the recently concluded gun amnesty. Among those arrested for illegal possession of a firearm was a 15 year old boy. Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during the sitting of the...
The man held in connection with the murder of social media influencer Aneka "Slickianna" Townsend, Rushawn Patterson, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the St. James Circuit Court yesterday. His co-accused, 47-year-old security guard Rohan "Early B" Rose,...