Retired army chief Stewart Saunders says he believes former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and other police top brass were aware of plans by the military to use mortars in the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. At the same time, Major...
Jamaica’s discus thrower Traves Smikle has lost his appeal against his two-year ban imposed by a Jamaica Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel in June 2014. Smikle, the former national record holder was banned for two years, after traces of the...
Retired army chief Stewart Saunders has revealed that he authorised the use of masks by some soldiers who participated in the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. Saunders said the masks he authorised partially covered the faces of the soldiers...
Former army chief Major General Stewart Saunders this morning revealed that it was entirely his decision to use mortars during the May 2010 operations in Tivoli Gardens. Testifying before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry, Saunders said there...
General Stewart Saunders this morning repeated that drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke "hurriedly" left his upper St Andrew home and drove to his west Kingston stronghold of Tivoli Gardens nearly five minutes after he and the...
Chairman of the west Kingston commission of enquiry Sir David Simmons has given the Tivoli Committee one week to fulfill certain obligations or be barred from further participating in the hearings. This development came after the new attorney for...
Published:Thursday | June 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
THE STORIES about absentee fathers are always told, but little about those who yearn to fulfill their obligations and who must deal with the tricks played by the mothers involved.A frustrated grandmother related an incident to Family and Religion...
Published:Wednesday | June 17, 2015 | 10:29 AMGleaner Writer
Joy Powell is a cook from May Pen in Clarendon Jamaica, who migrated to the United States over 20 years ago.Today she has become the face of authentic jerk chicken and pork at a takeout only Jamaican restaurant in Orange, New Jersey.Called the...
Angry residents of a St James community this morning attacked the Maldon High School in the parish following the killing of a student by a colleague yesterday. The Education Ministry, says 15-year-old Romaro Salmon was stabbed off the school’...
The smell of chicken foot soup and fried chicken greeted The Gleaner on the way up the stony track.A blue tarpaulin as a tent, a yard filled with people and a table decorated with cakes were the first things in sight.It was Ragland Bailey's birthday...
Jamaica's national senior football coach, Winfried Schafer, has made one change for the game against Paraguay in the 2015 Copa America tournament in Chile. The match kicks off at 4 p.m. Forward Darren Mattocks, who started in the first Group B...
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is investigating an oil slick in the Kingston Harbour this morning. It is understood that the slick occurred about six this morning when oil from a generator leak at Digicel's Head...
Published:Tuesday | June 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites says policy decisions taken by his Ministry are all data driven, unlike in the past where decisions were usually taken without the backing of empirical data. He was addressing attendees during a plenary...
Jamaica's Nicholas Walters failed to make weight this afternoon and was stripped of his featherweight world title ahead of his fight against Miguel Marriaga tomorrow night. The fight is scheduled for the Theater at Madison Square Garden in...
Shanique Myrie, the Jamaican woman who won Barbados in a free movement court case is seeking to enter political representation in the Corporate Area. The 27-year-old told The Gleaner that, yesterday she submitted an application to represent the...
OSLO, Norway: Veronica Campbell-Brown was beaten into second place in the 100m at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games today. The seven-time Olympic medallist was, pre-race, of the opinion that she could emulate compatriot Kerron Stewart and dip under the...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) says it is reviewing the case involving the policeman whose accusations against two Guardsman employees were contradicted by video footage. Deputy Commissioner of Police, in charge of the Inspectorate of...
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, is defending her office against criticisms that a case involving video evidence contradicting a policeman’s claims should not have made it to the courts. Last week, the Gun Court...
Australia were in control of the second Test versus the West Indies at tea. The visitors were 170 for three with Steve Smith unbeaten on 86 at Sabina Park. With him is first Test centurion, Adam Voges, who is not out on 18. Captain Michael...
OSLO, Norway: In-form Kaliese Spencer won the 400m hurdles with ease at the 50th edition of the ExxonMobil Bislett Games which makes up a leg of the prestigious IAAF Diamond League series. Spencer, fresh from her win in Birmingham on Sunday,...
A former policeman has been sentenced to six months imprisonment at hard labour, for stealing a motor vehicle. Thirty-year-old, Phillip Steele, from St Mary, was sentenced yesterday in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate Court in St Elizabeth....
Transport lobby groups are criticising as impractical, the government's intention to prosecute motorists who damage road furnishings. President of the Route Taxi Association of Jamaica, Sophia Campbell, says the government should revisit...
Attorney-at-law Kent Gammon is reminding Jamaicans that they can sue the government where it’s believed negligence by the authorities resulted in road-related accidents. His remarks follow a disclosure yesterday by Minister without portfolio...
The Hanover Police say two men have been taken into custody in connection with yesterday's gun attack on a family which left two brothers, including a schoolboy, dead. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Artel Colley, who is in charge of...
OSLO, Norway: Sprint queen Veronica Campbell-Brown is quietly confident that she can run a sub 11 seconds 100m at Oslo’s ExonMobil Bislett Games tomorrow. The seven-time Olympic gold medallist is of the opinion that she can emulate compatriot...
