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(Jamaica Gleaner) Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died.
Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer.
The article Jamaican hotel mogul 'Butch' Stewart is dead at 79 appeared first on Stabroek News.
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(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at risk.
Garth Richards, former president of the now dormant Jamaica Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, said that the society faces “a lot of danger” without guaranteed standards for the ambulance service.
For Professor Winston Davidson, head of the School of Public Health and Health Technology at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech), the current lack of oversight of private ambulances highlights a bigger problem confronting the health sector, which recently came under the microscope after The Sunday Gleaner revealed that of the more than a dozen private hospitals recognised by the Government, only four were legally registered to operate.
However, PAHO noted that countries without EMS legislative frameworks had “well-organised emergency medical service/emergency ambulance service facilities”.
Chairman Dr Hugh Wong told The Sunday Gleaner that while protocols exist for the public service, “oversight is lacking” in the private sector, which means “standard of care provided varies”.
WESTERN BUREAU: The Holness administration is being accused of trading short-term gain for long-term degradation by overturning the denial of a permit by Jamaica’s environmental agencies for mining and quarrying in the Dry Harbour Mountains. Both...
FOR SOME time it had not rained in Claremont, St Ann, but the showers came down yesterday, forcing supporters of Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Shahine Robinson, to seek shelter inside her home or other sections of the property.
Robinson, 66, lost her two-year battle with lung cancer on Friday, prompting an outpouring of love from well-wishers near and far and marking the second straight day that the ruling party was losing a member, after Thursday’s passing of former minister, Dr Neville Gallimore.
I fell in love with her before I was a political representative and every day I walk the Lime Hall division or North East St Ann constituency, I walk it feeling strong and proud,” she said.
Mayor of St Ann’s Bay, Michael Belnavis, and several councillors also visited the home of the late minister.
Belnavis, who Robinson replaced as constituency representative after his 1997 general election defeat to the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Danny Melville, described her as “an icon in St Ann, a mother to everyone in the constituency of North East St Ann.”
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Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith says Prime Minister Andrew Holness was truthful when he told the nation on Friday that his administration did not reject the United Kingdom’s offer to help build a prison here.
But on January 13, 2017, that's almost a year after Holness became prime minister, Johnson Smith told the Jamaican Senate that the government rejected the offer because the terms were “not beneficial to Jamaica as a whole” and that the matter was closed.
IN PHOTO: In this September 30, 2015 file photo, then Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller introduces then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness to David Cameron, then prime minister of the United Kingdom, on his arrival to the island.
In media appearances, Johnson Smith reiterated the position of the Holness administration, including on Television Jamaica’s Smile Jamaica morning programme on January 16, 2017.
On his visit to Kingston in September 2015, UK Prime Minister David Cameron made the controversial prison offer to Jamaica.
WESTERN BUREAU: British High Commissioner to Jamaica Asif Ahmad is urging the Jamaican Government to act now in order to ensure sustainability in deciding on the 17 proposals of interest it has received to transform waste into energy, which is...
REACTING TO the national outcry over the death of Noel Chambers, who spent 40 years in prison without a trial, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, last evening, said nobody should be lost in the penal system.
Commenting on the injustice meted out to Chambers, the prime minister said, “It is my position that no one should be lost in the penal system and certainly that anyone who has served more than 35 years should be considered for release”.
This tragedy is undoubtedly ranked amongst the most dreadful inheritances of a penal and judicial system that are in urgent need of reform,” Holness said.
According to Holness, this unfortunate situation must result in a complete and comprehensive overview and overhaul of the system to treat with persons in custody in general and those with mental and physiological conditions.
The prime minister mentioned Susan Bogle and Jodian Fearon who both died under questionable circumstances.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The mothers of two men whose bodies were found in a macabre heap on a Portmore roadway on the weekend have denied that their killing was in revenge for the triple murder of an 81-year-old woman and her granddaughters.
The article Jamaica: Our sons didn’t murder Grandma and girls, say women appeared first on Stabroek News.
Chicago based United Airlines announced Brett J. Hart as the company’s President.
“I am honored and energized as I take on these new responsibilities to lead this incredible team that I am convinced will build United into a thriving industry leader,” Hart said.
Hart is the first African American to become President of United Airlines in the airline’s 94-year history.
Over his 10-year career with United Hart has taken on significant responsibilities within the company.
As President of United, Hart will continue to lead the company’s public advocacy strategy, including the Government Affairs, Corporate Communications, Legal and Community Engagement teams.
After weeks of voyaging on the high seas as high-level negotiations dragged on between the Government of Jamaica and their employers, the more than 1,000 Jamaican cruise ship workers who sailed into the Falmouth Pier on Tuesday will finally set foot on local soil today.
Superintendent Kirk Ricketts, commanding officer for the Trelawny police, said that the lawmen were tasked to keep the pier sterile and to provide escort service at the direction of the Office of the Prime Minister.
After giving the green light to Jamaican workers on the cruise ship Adventure of the Seas to come ashore, Prime Minister Andrew Holness made it clear that before being reunited with their families, they would have to undergo health surveillance and COVID-19 tests to determine their health status.
Lorene Whinstanley, public health manager at the Falmouth Hospital, said that samples would be taken from each passenger and sent to Kingston for assessment.
The ship is expected to spend more than a week docked in Falmouth as the passengers will not be released at once, but in batches of approximately 200 crew members every 48 or 72 hours.
The government is to advise on a new cycle of curfew hours today, as it extends the current island-wide restrictions, which ended this morning, to tomorrow morning, June 1, at 5:00 a.m.
A release from Jamaica House said Prime Minister Andrew Holness will update the nation today on new orders under the National Disaster Risk Management Act.
Employees are to return to work tomorrow, following the expiration of the work from home order today.
Ben Stokes' father Ged Stokes, a New Zealand rugby league international, has died after a battle with brain cancer.
