Category: Local News

We are grateful for the alacrity with which Prime Minister Andrew Holness staunched the bipartisan assault by elements of the gangs of Gordon House on the […]

A global public opinion survey on corruption found that 74 per cent of respondents in Jamaica felt our Parliament is corrupt or extremely corrupt, and 86 […]

Corruption is defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. The issue of corruption is not new; it is probably as old as the […]

What do the people who live in New Market (St Elizabeth), Wakefield (St Catherine), Smithfield (Westmoreland), Salt Marsh (Trelawny), Jack’s River (St Mary) have in common […]

Whatever other view may be held of Paula Llewellyn, it’s beyond debate that she is among the most engaged of Jamaica’s public officials, ready, as was […]

Agriculture Minister Karl Samuda has denied that he used his influence to get the Jamaica Dairy Development Board to establish a 15-acre demonstration plot of Mombasa […]

Western Bureau: While heaping glowing praise on the police for their service to the nation, including describing them as “the best trained in the western hemisphere”, […]

Below are excerpts of Professor Trevor Munroe’s address to the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB) Conference. Corruption is not Third World […]

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is criticising anti-corruption campaigner, Professor Trevor Munroe, for wanting the constitution changed to weaken her office’s powers. Writing […]

Not a day passes without us hearing that Jamaica has a culture of corruption. The spider man, Anancy, lives, so we are told. No doubt there […]