WITH simmering public discontent over a massive pay hike to the political directorate, Prime Minister Andrew Holness continued his efforts to calm critics by promising on Friday that new accountability measures will be…
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Former PM Shearer remembered fondly on the 100th anniversary of his birth
Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday recalled the late former Prime Minister Hugh Lawson Shearer as a dignified and unifying personality on Jamaica’s political scene. “I don’t think anyone could have challenged that…
Listen to the Jamaica & Caribbean Weekly News Summary for the week ending ending May 19th, 2023
TOP NEWS STORIES Jamaican Politicians Receive Enormous Salary Increases British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly Announces Violence Prevention Funding For Jamaica TOP CARIBBEAN NEWS United Nations Secretary General Describes Violence in Haiti as “Tragic”…
Will they or won’t they…
MEMBERS People’s National Party (PNP) sitting on the Opposition benches in Parliament are yet to arrive at a consensus on how to treat with the massive increase in salaries which are to collect…
CXC CHEATS?
T here has been a deafening silence from officials of the Ministry of Education, who, up to press time late Friday, were yet to comment on allegations that the leak of the Caribbean…
Ban on plastic lunch boxes to take effect year end
The long-promised ban on plastic lunch boxes will take effect on December 31. The date was announced on Thursday by minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Matthew…
Delivery truck drivers warned of robberies in St Ann
OCHO RIOS, St Ann – The St Ann police are urging truck drivers who do deliveries in sections of the parish to be on the lookout for fake calls and also robbers on…
When the shooting starts
“Kam, kam, kam!” is how 13-year-old Deno Griffiths imitates the piercing sounds of gunshots echoing throughout his Arnett Gardens community in St Andrew anytime of the day. The gun violence, he said, often…
$100-million headache
The Jamaica Cancer Society is still in need of a mobile screening unit after years of seeking assistance, and it would appear as though it will not come to fruition any time soon….
‘Enough is enough’
MORE than 4,200 reports of child abuse in all forms have been made to the National Children’s Registry (NCR) since the start of this year. The figure was disclosed recently by Michelle McIntosh…