Executive Director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, NSWMA, Audley Gordon, is defending the internal systems of the Agency amid revelations that investigators from anti-corruption agency, MOCA, are probing irregularities at the Authority. The Dennis...
Prominent St. Andrew businessman and contractor, Christopher Kerr, was yesterday freed of charges of forgery and uttering forged documents. The prosecution's case collapsed after Parish Judge, Sanchia Burrell, upheld a no case submission made by Kerr's attorneys. Kerr...
The board of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, NSWMA, has called in the Major Organised Crime and Anti Corruption Agency, MOCA, to probe what's being described as issues of significant concern. The matter is said to involve millions of dollars. The matter...
The state owned bus company, Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, has resumed full service across the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region, KMTR, following Monday morning's protest by some of its employees. JUTC drivers refused to roll out the morning fleet in...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness will be forced to dump an additional batch of AstraZeneca vaccines at around midnight on Tuesday. More than 100,000 doses of the drug will go bad, after the government failed to administer them to Jamaicans. This is the third batch...
Opposition leader and PNP President, Mark Golding, is rejecting suggestions that his party will pay a political price for its failure to support an extension of the States of Public Emergency. Last evening, the Opposition Senators declined to support the government's...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has announced that some Jamaicans are to be given new vaccination cards. The new cards will be given to those Jamaicans whose cards currently bear the name of vaccine manufacturer, SII, instead of the name of a specific vaccine. The...
A former People's National Party General Secretary, Paul Burke, is admitting that both major political parties are guilty of practicing tribal politics. However, Burke explained that the current government is far more tribal, than any previous administration. Burke...
The Integrity Commission is again calling on parliamentarians to repeal Section 53 of the Integrity Commission Act. The clause has been called a gag clause. It prevents the Commission from making any public statements on its investigations,until a report is tabled in...
Parliamentarians are raising concerns about what they say is the invasive nature of the declaration forms being issued by the Integrity Commission to public officials in the country. The concerns were raised at today's sitting of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee...