Executive president a no-go Jamaica would not benefit “at this time” from having a directly elected president, according to the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), which recommends retaining the Cabinet parliamentary system of government over the executive presidential...
Predictable The current impasse between the Government and Opposition, on the report of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC), was bound to happen, according to AJ Nicholson, a former attorney general and minister of justice. Nicholson, speaking with The...
A look inside the CRC’s confidential report The following are some of the key recommendations of the Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) in its confidential report of May 3, 2024. Appointing the president Nomination by prime minister after consultation with the leader of the...
Shattered dream Eleven years ago, Jeffrey James found out through a relative that a government-owned company was selling lands in the resort town of Negril, Westmoreland, and he immediately sprang into action. James, who is a member of the United States (US)...
‘I’m looking for a life sentence’ Almost 60 students and staff at an elementary school in Dumfries, Virginia in the United States, erupted in excitement when the Supreme Court last week found businessman Omar Collymore guilty of plotting the murder of his wife and, consequently,...
Mystery condition robs young brothers of ability to walk It is a real mystery, to many residents in the rural district of Clifton in Bernard Lodge, St Catherine, how two brothers - 15-year-old Amari Carby and 10-year-old Kemoy Allen, were rendered paraplegic just months apart. “The boys used to be very...
SBA PAY FRUSTRATION President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Leighton Johnson, is expressing frustration after the Ministry of Education reneged on its promise to pay all teachers who were engaged in the marking of school-based assessments (SBAs) for last year’...
‘We have to catch them at the primary level’ WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has indicated that plans are in place to collaborate with both early childhood institutions and primary schools to curb violence involving the nation’s youth. Dr Chang, who was speaking at...
JTA makes impassioned plea in search for missing teacher Danielle Anglin The Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) has again made an impassioned plea for anyone with information which could lead to the safe return of 29-year-old Danielle Anglin to her family, to call the police at 119. Anglin, a teacher of St Peter Claver...
MoBay’s loader men now transport marshals WESTERN BUREAU: COMMANDER of the St James Police Division, acting Senior Superintendent Eron Samuels, has tasked the 19 newly trained public transportation marshals, formerly known as loader men, to show respect to everyone using the public...