Jamaica News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The world knows him as Roy Augier, but he was born Fitzroy Richard Augier on December 17, 1924, in St Lucia.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) says the current congestion at the port of Kingston is the result of a drastic increase of cargo volumes as well as disruptions in mainliner service schedules.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Retired former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson last Tuesday praised Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley as the Caribbean’s fiercest advocate for social and economic justice, noting that no one since his predecessor, Michael Manley, has been as eloquent in speaking on behalf of the region.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Five barrels shipped from the United States, labelled groceries and clothing, were found to contain assembled guns, some designer (Gucci) plated, and firearm accessories to further assemble at least 39 pistols along with approximately 2,800 ammunition, at a wharf in Kingston.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has accused the Integrity Commission of targeting him and out to damage his reputation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is one step closer to becoming a republic and moving away from the British monarchy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An Integrity Commission investigation has found that a company linked to Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his business partner Norman Brown built an apartment complex in St Andrew with more rooms than allowed, breaching the law.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Although the quality of Jamaica’s spices is considered among the best in the world, the farmers who grow ginger, turmeric and pimento are earning very little from their endeavours, with most of the money going to traders of the products, according to a recent study.

… but grants Holness right to challenge reports   (Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lost his bid to force the Integrity Commission (IC) to certify his 2022 and 2023 statutory declarations, but has been given the go-ahead to seek the court’s authority in getting the IC’s investigative report and special report invalidated.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Trevor Patterson, longtime personal attorney for late hotel mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, has denied allegations that he forged documents to add beneficiaries to a trust initially limited to Adam Stewart and one of his sisters.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Holness administration says it will be taking “other steps” to foster cross-party dialogue on Jamaica’s push to become a republic amid further confirmation that deadlock between the country’s two main political parties could derail another attempt to replace the British monarch as Jamaica’s head of state.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Residents of Roaring River, Westmoreland, on Monday unearthed what is believed to be the body of 64-year-old Dawn Anderson, a Jamaica-born British woman who went missing shortly after arriving in the island last week.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Buoyed by the success of its small northern hub, and smarting from the effects of Hurricane Beryl, manufacturing and distribution company Wisynco Group Limited is moving to set up an even larger hub on the southern side of Jamaica.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In what could be considered an almost urgent attempt to get Jamaicans to stick with his governing party, Prime Minister Andrew Holness used the Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP’s) 81st annual conference yesterday to target middle-income earners and vulnerable groups, promising to reduce electricity tax and provide debt forgiveness on water bills, among other reprieves.

(Jamaica Gleaner) In an assembly of civil society representatives, Richard Jones, executive director of the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC), has called for enhanced whistleblower protections for the nonprofit sector.

(Jamaica Observer) With 19 deaths recorded up to Friday, November 15, the number of children killed in motor vehicle crashes this year has seen an alarming 46 per cent increase when compared with the same period in 2023.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Two men have been shot and killed by police in the St Catherine North division in separate incidents which resulted in the seizure of two illegal guns and ammunition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Chairman of the Integrity Commission, Retired Justice Seymour Panton, has expressed disappointment that Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, has failed to acknowledge receipt of a letter from the anti-corruption body raising concern about the conduct of a parliamentarian.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Althea Graham-Dolly rested her Bible on a chair, and having donned her hat in preparing to head off to church, was turning back to retrieve something when gunmen, who had been travelling in a motor car, attacked and shot her several times Sunday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to know on December 6, whether the Supreme Court will grant his request for a judicial review of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on his financial affairs.