Published:Wednesday | February 8, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Amid a slew of deadly attacks against women and young girls, the Andrew Holness administration has unveiled a number of measures that are to form part of a get-tough campaign against domestic violence.Declaring that the time for talk is over,...
Published:Friday | February 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The Gleaner/Power106 News Centre understands that President of the People's National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller is expected to announce tomorrow that she will demit office at the end of next month.According to party insiders, Simpson Miller...
Published:Thursday | January 26, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The country's National Security Minister Robert Montague has said that his "greatest concern" with the nearly 100 murders already recorded this year is that nearly half have been gang-related killings. Ninety-two persons have been reported killed...
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The Supreme Court yesterday tossed aside an attempt by Symbiote Investments Limited, the company seeking to become the third player in the local telecommunications market under the brand Caricel, to block an investigation being conducted by...
Published:Tuesday | January 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A Kingston pastor was convicted in the Home Circuit Court yesterday for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, following a trial that featured testimony from the victim and her seven-year-old brother, who witnessed the incident. Paul Hanniford, the 55...
Published:Tuesday | January 17, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Riddled with flaws. That's how lawyers for Portia Simpson Miller, president of the People's National Party (PNP), described a 2011 ruling by then High Court judge, Justice Lennox Campbell, compelling her and other party functionaries to give...
Published:Sunday | January 15, 2017 | 7:57 PMLivern Barrett
The Andrew Holness administration is looking to dangle a raft of incentives before criminal suspects to secure more guilty pleas.The incentives are being contemplated as part of the proposed amendments to the plea-bargain legislation and other...
Published:Wednesday | January 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Marisa Golding has seen too many 'good young boys' migrate to a life of crime and become part of the problem in Clarendon, and she is adamant that none of her children will take that path.The mother of five is doing all she can to ensure that her...
Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The sound of dogs barking is all it takes to drive fear into jittery residents of Havana Heights, a small community located in southwest Clarendon."A gunshot we a listen fah next," Marisa Golding, a long-time resident, told The Gleaner yesterday....
Published:Monday | January 9, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The nation's chief prosecutor Paula Llewellyn has suggested that the legislation enacted to ease the backlog of cases clogging up the court system is instead contributing to the growing pile-up.The Committal Proceedings Act, which came into effect...
Published:Tuesday | January 3, 2017 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Longer sentences for gun-related crimes are among the raft of legislative tools the Andrew Holness administration plans to give the police this year to help tackle the country’s crime problem. Last year, Jamaica recorded more than 1,300...
Published:Friday | December 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
ONE high-ranking member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has confirmed that he will not be seeking the job of police commissioner, even as some of his colleagues remained coy about their interest in the post.Glenmore Hinds, the deputy...
Published:Monday | December 26, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
CreditInfo Jamaica, one of three credit bureaus operating locally, is finalising arrangements that could allow local utility companies to share information with it about their customers.Craig Stephen, CEO of CreditInfo Jamaica, said his company has...
Published:Friday | December 23, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The search for the nation's next police commissioner should extend outside the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), one former high-ranking officer has suggested.Mark Shields, a former deputy commissioner of police in charge of the crime...
Published:Thursday | December 22, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Outgoing Police Commissioner Dr Carl Williams last night bristled at suggestions that the country's rising murder toll influenced his decision to step down next month.Williams, who took over as the nation's police chief in September 2014, also...
Published:Tuesday | December 20, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Jamaica's police chief has suggested that the actions of telecommunications company FLOW, to inadvertently publish the private telephone numbers and other personal data of several current and former public officials as well as business leaders and...
Published:Sunday | December 18, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A woman who was twice given the wrong blood transfusion by medical personnel at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) 10 years ago has been awarded close to $4.5 million in damages.Barbara Wright complained, in a lawsuit filed against...
Published:Wednesday | December 7, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The Supreme Court has placed a freeze on four high-end properties, valued at nearly $400 million, that were traced by local investigators to a Jamaican couple that...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Peter Bunting, one of the aspirants for presidency of the People's National Party (PNP), has declared that there was no plan between himself and South East St Ann Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna to force out Portia Simpson Miller."Myself and Lisa...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Former President of the Senate Floyd Morris today suggested that People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller was forced out by persons she brought into the party. "It hurt my heart to see how the Comrade leader was...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
Member of Parliament for St Andrew South East Julian Robinson took over as general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP) on Sunday, promising to lead a secretariat that is fair and impartial. Robinson replaces Paul Burke, who served as...
Published:Sunday | December 4, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
A quarrel has broken out between People's National Party (PNP) supporters loyal to President Portia Simpson Miller and others supporting St Ann South East Member of Parliament Lisa Hanna. The factions are gathered in different areas of the...
Published:Thursday | December 1, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
The new head of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major General Rocky Meade, plans to deploy a battalion of soldiers - normally between 500 and 600 - to the crime-plagued western section of the island but made it clear that the army would have to...
Published:Wednesday | November 30, 2016 | 12:00 AMLivern Barrett
More than three decades after Jamaica recorded its first AIDS case, one local group of medical experts has estimated that more than 13,000 Jamaican children have been left orphaned or vulnerable to contracting the virus.That figure, according to Dr...
