Jovan Johnson

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Senior Staff Reporter, Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica

Crime and Justice, Politics

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Jovan Johnson - Senior Staff Reporter

Bengal Development's quest, which has been backed by the prime minister, to mine in the ecologically sensitiv…

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UWI rift deepens

Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles is investigating the ceremonial head of The University of the West Indies …

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HEARTY HARVEST

Just under 50 per cent of the monetary value of all contracts awarded by HEART/NSTA Trust to SynCon Technolog…

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Birthday gift as Floyd Green back in Cabinet

On his 40th birthday and just 117 days after he was forced to resign in shame, Floyd Green, considered one of…

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$50-million contract controversy hits RADA

An alleged scoring error that resulted in an initial winner of a multimillion-dollar contract to supply tract…

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AAJ board went against recommendation and invested in First Rock, probe reveals

The Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) Group invested almost a half-billion dollars of taxpayers' money in s…

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Senior KSAMC officials interdicted over building permit worries

Jovan Johnson, Senior Staff Reporter The deputy head of planning and a surveyor at the Kingston and St Andrew…

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HEART's Gabbidon bows out over conflict-of-interest pressure

Jovan Johnson/Senior Staff Reporter Edward Gabbidon has resigned as board chairman of the HEART/NSTA Trust am…

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Supreme Court refuses injunction against Digicel, Cari-Med COVID vaccine policies

Jovan Johnson/Senior Gleaner Reporter The Supreme Court has refused to grant injunctions blocking the impleme…

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SLEEPING WATCHDOGS

There are more questions about negligence or possible corruption at the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corp…

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Sweetheart deal? - Questions surround land arrangement involving partner of Cabinet minister

There are conflicting accounts about how a company, with a director and shareholder who is the partner of a C…

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'IMMEDIATELY' - Leaked letter reveals Hutchinson demanded SCJ Holdings expedite land offer to swe...

J.C. Hutchinson, a de facto agriculture minister, urged an entity in his ministry to give possession of sugar…

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Belnavis tied to building breach - St Ann structure demolished amid Sunday Gleaner probe

Embattled St Ann's Bay Mayor Michael Belnavis is a director of a private company that captured government lan…

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JLP councillors want embattled St Ann's Bay mayor to resign

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillors in St Ann have recommended that embattled St Ann's Bay Mayor Michael B…

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HOSPITALS IN BREACH - Embattled Andrews among private facilities operating without gov't certific...

Only four private hospitals in Jamaica are currently certified to operate. The state of affairs was uncovered…

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'Laws with bite' - Tufton launches inspections of uncertified private hospitals

An order for the immediate inspection of all uncertified private hospitals and for the full force of the law …

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UHWI's digital pains

After more than half a billion dollars in expenses and four years past its deadline, there's no end in sight …

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New twists in UHWI tech system saga

AS The $500-million information technology scandal rocking the Mona Campus of The University of the West Indi…

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UHWI to fix multimillion-dollar software glitch

Crucial security features are to be installed on a problematic multimillion-dollar software that's exposed hu…

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UHWI to fix multimillion-dollar software glitch

Crucial security features are to be installed on a problematic multimillion-dollar software that's exposed hu…

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Staff, patients concerned about data breach at university hospital

Loose network and cybersecurity with the problem-plagued Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) that's…

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UHWI chief IT officer resigns amid multimillion-dollar scandal

Jovan Johnson/Senior Staff Reporter The chief information technology officer at the University Hospital of th…

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Conflict of interest or 'trivialities'?

For half a decade, two multibillion-dollar education ministry programmes, troubled by conflicts of interest c…

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BREACH!

Two public bodies, the Airports Authority of Jamaica (AAJ) and a subsidiary violated government regulations i…

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