Allowing voting from places such as hospitals and nursing homes is among the options the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) will be weighing as it grapples with increasing apathy among Jamaican electors.Fewer than 48 per cent of registered voters...
Agents of the United States (US) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are expected to travel to Jamaica in the coming days to take possession of just over J$100 million, or close to US$1.7 million, which local authorities have traced to Jamaica-born...
Jamaica is now the second country in the English-speaking Caribbean to have an internationally accredited laboratory with the full capabilities to test for any type of disease that may pose a threat to public health.On Monday, the newly upgraded...
Gary Sinclair, managing director of communications firm FLOW, has set a July deadline for the full repatriation of its customer contact centre service to Jamaica, following yesterday's contract signing with Advantage Communications Limited.The...
Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) will today (International Women's Day) ramp up its new media campaign aimed at raising public awareness about the harsh realities of violence against women.The campaign will shine a light on some of the most...
As part of his effort to clean up the Catholic Church's finances, Pope Francis said last week during his weekly audience at the Vatican that he did not want "dirty money" donations earned from abusing low-income workers given to the church, Reuters...
Georgetown, Guyana:CARICOM secretary General, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has extended "heartiest congratulations" to newly elected Prime Minister Andrew Holness."I look forward to working with you in continuing to strengthen our integration movement...
Robert Montague, chairman of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), is expected to be tasked by Prime Minister Andrew Holness to take on the challenging national-security portfolio.Holness spent the bulk of yesterday nailing down a Cabinet to be...