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The search for a new police commissioner has yet to really start, and it will not get going until after Friday, when Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin leaves his office at 103 Old Hope Road, St Andrew, for the last time. However, smart money is being bet on Owen Ellington…

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The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is urging Prime Minister Bruce Golding to “come clean” when he addresses Parliament today. Golding is slated to use today’s sitting of the House of Representatives to address the sudden resignations…

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Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw last night declared that the downgrade of Jamaica by international rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) was hasty and unwarranted. Citing the resignation three days earlier of Bank of Jamaica Governor Derick…

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THE MEDICAL Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has signalled that it would be opposed to any move by the Government to replace the current 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. normal hours work arrangement for doctors with a more flexible work arrangement…

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ANOTHER GOVERNMENT agency has been hit with resignations.Executive director of the HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA) Paulette Dunn-Smith and senior director Clover Barnett yesterday parted company with the agency. The development came after…

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A new-look police car should hit the streets shortly. The authorities have started placing markings on 90 Suzuki motor cars that have been ordered from Stewart’s Auto Sales and the design is like nothing the police force now has. The vehicles are being…

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Jamaica’s Police Chief, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has tendered his resignation to the Police Service Commission, ending weeks of speculation that a show-down with the Government was imminent, The Gleaner has learnt. While not coming as a shock exit…

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AT LEAST one school is trumpeting the success of surveillance cameras on its compound in its fight against undisciplined behaviour by students. Errol Bascoe, principal of Tacky High School in Gayle, St Mary, says since the installation of surveillance cams……

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