Politics of Jamaica

Students at the Irwin High School in James are now undergoing counselling following the death of one of their schoolmates on Thursday ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/irwin-high-student-dies-stab-wound-attack-schoolmates/

Pregnant with twins, Shelsy Chavez had been looking forward to her father joining her in the USA, at the end of May, for a routine doctor’s visit ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/wish-denied-murder/

The Ministry of Justice says the government will be appealing the court ruling against the extension of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn’s ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/govt-appeal-constitutional-court-ruling-dpps-extension/

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wants People's National Party (PNP) Westmoreland Western aspirant Ian Hayles to withdraw and apologise for marking claims about ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/jlp-chides-ian-hayles-over-water-tank-distribution-claims-demands-apology   #GLNRToday

The Minister of Culture, Olivia Grange, says he has been left saddened by the death of Bishop Dr Ronald Blair, who passed away today at age 86 ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/grange-saddened-death-bishop-ronald-blair   #GLNRToday

Reigning 400m world champion Antonio Watson has expressed his eagerness to break the sub-44 barrier this season, believing that once he is injury-free ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/just-getting-started/

The St Elizabeth Police have arrested two people who reportedly stole an 800 pound bull from its owner in Thatchfield in the parish last weekend.www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/cops-retrieve-stolen-800-pound-bull-st-elizabeth-two-custody/

If the Andrew Holness administration enacts legislation making Portmore a parish without direct consultation with its residents ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240415/fitz-jackson-makes-pledge-portmore   #GLNRToday

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Shadow Minister of Information and Public Communication, Nekeisha Burchell is urging the government to quickly implement a social media policy with stringent ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/urgent-need-clear-govt-social-media-policy-opposition-says/

Opposition Spokesman on Finance Julian Robinson is urging Finance Minister Dr Nigel Clarke to get Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) to name the owners of two ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Constitutional expert Dr Lloyd Barnett has described as “unfortunate and sad” the so-called letter saga in which Speaker of the House of Representatives ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240418/curtis-holness-may-have-resolve-issue-through-mediation-barnett   #GLNRToday

The fleet of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company has been boosted with 12 new compressed natural gas buses. The buses arrived in the island on Wednesday and were ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240412/jutc-gets-12-new-buses   #GLNRToday

State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Alando Terrelonge, says he regrets a series of posts made to his social media platforms in ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/terrelonge-says-regrets-posts-blocking-faces-former-jcan-prime-ministers/

The Jamaica Labour Party's fight for the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation has reached the Supreme Court as its losing candidate for the Kintyre ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/jlps-fight-ksamc-reaches-supreme-court-0   #GLNRToday

Senior teacher at Alpha Infant School Sabrina Raymond-Hunter has endorsed the ‘ICHEETAH’ robot, a smart educational AI-powered tool that will advance the way ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/senior-teacher-endorses-robots-assisting-school/

Entrepreneur Paul Patmore of Lowe River in Trelawy is set to represent the People's National Party in the constituency of South Trelawny in the next general ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240414/paul-patmore-represent-pnp-south-trelawny   #GLNRToday

Newly minted Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Colleen Lowe has admitted that her predecessor was on vacation leave when the Financial Services Commission ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240416/new-house-clerk-we-did-not-know-what-do-reports   #GLNRToday

A government agency is refusing to disclose the names of two entities with which it has entered into contracts costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240414/stifling-transparency   #GLNRToday

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) will be adding a second tower to its Nethersole Place headquarters, an investment necessitated by its expanding regulatory portfolio ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/business/20240414/twin-towers-boj   #GLNRFinance

Almost daily, Jamaican young professionals on the ‘X’ platform, formerly known as Twitter, clamour for the ‘crash of the housing market’ in hopes of being able ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lifestyle/20240413/mounting-housing-hurdles-young-professionals   #GLNRLifestyle

A popular medical doctor in Spanish Town, St Catherine has been arrested by the police as part of its ongoing investigation into the Clansman Gang ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/medical-doctor-arrested-part-clansman-gang-police-probe   #GLNRToday

It has been more than eight years since the Government announced renovation plans for of May Pen Cemetery in Corporate Area ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/14/disgrace-20240414-0328-542580/

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson marks his 89th birthday today, just over 18 years after he retired from a life of public service that saw him create history ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/pj-patterson-marks-89th-birthday-today/

Stung by an anonymous message circulated via WhatsApp about the National Identification System (NIDS), Cabinet member Dr Dana Morris Dixon made an unscheduled ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/absolutely-false/

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda has responded to videos being circulated on digital ... Show more

Almost 500 qualified Jamaican teachers swapped local classrooms for classrooms in the United Kingdom (UK) last year, as that country increased its recruitment ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/06/british-classrooms-calling/

Three weeks into his new job as police commissioner, Dr Kevin Blake declared his intention to arrest Jamaica’s nagging problem of public disorder and sent a ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/public-order-push/

Trelawny Municipal Corporation (TMC) officials are expected to visit distraught family members of 72-year-old Carol Brissett who last week succumbed to ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/15/sympathy-mission/

🔊SOUND ON🔊 The Opposition says it is appalled, though not surprised, by Information Minister Robert Morgan's pushback against public debate over whether House ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/opposition-rebukes-morgan-dismissal-juliet-holness-valrie-curtis-reprimand   #GLNRToday

An insurance agent had a difficult time giving evidence on Tuesday in the Home Circuit Court as he shared that he had a close relationship with Simone ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/collymores-insurance-policies-worth-200-million/

Information Minister Robert Morgan has described as “immaterial”, public debate over whether House Speaker Juliet Holness should withdraw a letter of reprimand ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/morgan-dismisses-critics-holness-ex-clerk-reprimand-withholding-ag-opinion   #GLNRToday

Former Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis has said she will accept nothing less than a public withdrawal by House Speaker Juliet Holness of a ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240416/curtis-breaks-silence   #GLNRToday

Senior Superintendent of Police Vernon Ellis, after serving an unprecedented six and a half years, is no longer the commander officer for the St James Police ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240415/hard-act-follow   #GLNRToday

Jamaica's data protection regulator says the law does not prevent releasing the names of parties to a contract, contradicting Tax Administration Jamaica which ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/data-protection-regulator-contradicts-taj-says-law-supports-transparency   #GLNRToday

The Ministry of Tourism plans to develop a luxury tourism market in the parish of St Thomas as part of a strategic push to diversify Jamaica’s tourism product ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/17/high-end-destination/

The new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has alleged that the former administration spent more ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/new-leadership-request-audit-alleged-88m-overspend-salaries-ksamc   #GLNRToday

Music producer Tarik “Rvssian” Johnson is quite upbeat about his involvement in the Supreme Ventures Money Time campaign, which launched a little over a month ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/money-time-vibes/

The Government said it is yet to recover any of the funds that were swindled from more than 200 accounts at fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited but said ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/18/bad-news-bolt/

People's National Party constituency representative for St Catherine East Central, Raymond Pryce, has bashed a controversial social media post by Member of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/pryce-bashes-terrelonge-controversial-social-media-post   #GLNRToday

The Jamaica Court of Appeals will begin hearing arguments on June 10 to determine whether to order a retrial for Vybz Kartel and his co-accused in the murder ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/12/kartel-retrial-hearing-set-june-10/

A call has been made for the PNP's Dennis Gordon, chairman of the finance committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to withdraw his ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/williams-wants-pnps-gordon-withdraw-comments-about-municipal-cops-ksamc   #GLNRToday

Former Kingston Mayor Delroy Williams has labelled plans by the new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240410/former-kgn-mayor-denounces-audit-plans-distraction   #GLNRToday

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) said Sunday that it remains gravely concerned about the House Speaker’s failure to withdraw the letter to former ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/08/pnp-renews-call-withdrawal-letter-former-clerk-houses/

The JamaicaEye Programme has been boosted by a donation of 215 closed-circuit television cameras by the Government of the Republic of Korea ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/jamaica-receives-215-cctv-cameras-republic-korea   #GLNRToday

Now in the winter of his political career, Fitz Jackson, the seven-term member of parliament for St Catherine Southern, has found a spring ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240414/fitz-jackson   #GLNRToday

The attorney general’s denial of an access to information request for the advice provided to Parliament on how to handle reports by the auditor general is not ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240412/editorial-go-court-ag-opinion   #GLNROped

A 37-year-old Jamaican, Sereika Savariau, on Tuesday pleaded guilty in a US District Court to creating a series of fraudulent debt relief companies that ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/jamaican-facing-30-years-us-prison-debt-relief-scam/

Mona High School in St Andrew is set to remain closed tomorrow amid ongoing violence among students of several Corporate Area schools .. ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Vice-Chairman of National Road Safety Council (NRSC) Dr Lucien Jones has added his voice to those urging young male drivers to take better care on the roads ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/careless-young-men-cause-many-road-crashes-says-jones/

Despite the missed March 31 target for the introduction of full free movement of Caribbean Community (Caricom) nationals, Minister of Foreign Affairs and ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/19/snails-pace/