KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government, insisting it is committed to facilitating the media in its work, Monday said it would hold discussions with the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and other media stakeholders “on the matter of protocols governing media interviews with the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - RENOWNED Jamaican scientist Dr. Henry Lowe and his cancer research team received a big boost over the last several weeks as one of their peer-reviewed research papers on the anti-cancer properties of the Jamaican Ball Moss has generated great interest in the international scienti...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - For decades, wherever he has stood, especially with regard to football, Austin 'Jack' Warner left a stench - of the type most people associate with corruption. That, of course, has never been proven where such things are determined - in courts of law. What was unique abou...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - There is much anxiety today among Jamaicans at home and abroad concerning Jamaica's economic future. Those who have been brave enough to look over the economic precipice often return to the fold with grossly disturbing news. We hear, for instance, that Jamaica's indebted...

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves will join leaders from across the Commonwealth’s small states at a high-level conference on governance in London from April 23 to 25. The Vincentian delegation will also include the Prime Minister’s wife, Eloise, Mini...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government has presented a J$521 billion (One Jamaica dollar = US$0.01 cents) tax free budget to Parliament with Finance Minister Dr. Peter Phillips indicating that the aim of the Portia Simpson Miller administration is to collect outstanding taxes and remo...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Portia Simpson Miller administration is expected to ink an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by early May. In a Gleaner interview following his opening presentation to the Budget Debate yesterday in Gordon House, Finance and Planning Minister Dr Peter Phill...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - THE Government has once again tabled Bills in the House of Representatives as it pushes to keep its promise to replace the United Kingdom-based Privy Council with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as Jamaica's final appellate court. Leader of Government Business in the Ho...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Like President Obama, this newspaper hopes that America will soon find out who is responsible for Monday's bombings in Boston and that they are made, as he puts it, "to feel the full weight of justice". Yet, we appreciate the measured and methodical approach of the United St...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - FOR the last 40 years, Jamaica has continued to suffer from a low growth rate, which averages approximately of 0.8 per cent per annum. The national debt now stands at $1.7 trillion, about 140 per cent of our GDP, which has effectively forced us to return to the International Mone...