Prime minister welcomes upgrade of us travel advisory for Jamaica: ‘encouraging development’

Reading Time: 2 minutesPrime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has welcomed the United States’ decision to upgrade its travel advisory for Jamaica from a level three to a level two. Americans are now being…

PNP takes issue with Dennis Chung’s FID appointment

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe appointment of chartered accountant Dennis Chung as the chief technical director of the Financial Investigations Division (FID) has been met with a mixed reception, with some pointing to his…

WIGUT threatens legal action against UWI, escalates campus-wide teaching strike

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) has threatened legal action against the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona campus, citing a lack of substantive response to its demands,…

Jamaica falls to level two as State Department revises travel advisory

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJamaica’s tourism sector was handed a much-needed reprieve from the US Department of State, which today (May 29) revised the island’s travel advisory from level three to level two. At…

Grange condemns Golding over ‘classist attack’ on MP Michelle Charles

Reading Time: 2 minutesMinister of Gender Affairs, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, is chastising People’s National Party (PNP) President, Mark Golding, who recently described East St Thomas MP, Dr Michelle Charles, as having “no class.”

Golding also warned that Charles should be badly beaten and is in for a “sting.”

The gender affairs minister says, “It is unfortunate that the PNP president, who has spoken about his ambition to govern Jamaica with ‘topanaris’ around him, has reintroduced class to the political platform and suggested that a strong and accomplished woman such as Charles is lacking.”

Phillips declares JUTC in its worst financial state ever

Reading Time: 2 minutesOpposition Spokesman on Transport, Mikael Phillips, has critiqued the government’s handling of the public transportation sector, stating that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is now in its worst financial and operational state in history.

Phillips stated that the system is in decline, citing that between 2016 and 2024, the number of passengers carried by the JUTC fell from 63 million to just 18 million. Over the same period, operational cost recovery plummeted from 70% to 12%, while farebox revenue dropped from $4.5 billion to $1.4 billion.