Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
"If there are no consequences to raping children, then how are citizens going to trust the system?"There are more concerns today about the low level of conviction for the sexual abuse of children locally.This time it is Lone Hvass, the United...
Published:Saturday | October 24, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Days after The Sunday Gleaner first reported that the Dental Council of Jamaica has little power to move against dentists operating without valid practising certificates, a leading member of the...
Published:Friday | October 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
An American dentist, whose licence to practise was revoked in the United States after at least three incidents, has set up shop in Jamaica sparking concerns in local medical circles.Stephen M. Kaufman, was in October of last year, arrested and...
Published:Friday | October 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
A large number of dentists across the island are operating without valid practising certificates, as there is nothing in place to protect the public from those who might not be fit to operate.A Sunday Gleaner probe has revealed that of the almost 250...
Published:Tuesday | October 13, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Customs boss Major Richard Reese insists there are no plans to lower fines for motor vehicles imported without the required permits. He noted that his agency is acting according to the requirements of the Customs Act.However, president of the...
Published:Friday | October 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Education Minister Ronald Thwaites believes that in light of the ongoing trend of some of the nation's top mathematics and science teachers leaving the classrooms to take up better-paying jobs here or abroad, additional inducements are needed to...
Published:Friday | October 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Scores of the island's children, already underperforming in mathematics, are being put at a further disadvantage because of the shortage of trained teachers for the critical subject.Checks with several schools across the island revealed that a...
Published:Thursday | October 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Two stabbings within hours of each other inside the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre just over one week ago underscored the lawlessness which continues to rule the facility.This despite media highlighting the problem repeatedly over the years and...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Having been forcefully removed from the Shoemaker Gully in New Kingston little over a year ago, a group of homeless men, some of whom are cross-dressers, has resorted to living among the dead.The men have made the Cholera Cemetery, which is across...
Published:Friday | October 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Former Commissioner of Corrections Major Richard Reese believes there is value in the Jamaican Government partnering with its United Kingdom (UK) counterpart to build a new prison on the island."Whether you have an agreement like this or not, the...
Published:Friday | September 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
While the law bars justices of the peace (JPs) for charging for their service, the request for a financial contribution is a regular one from many of those who should be offering a voluntary service to the public. But some JPs are claiming that the...
Published:Friday | September 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Scores of persons, as well as some established companies, have been trying to import vehicles into Jamaica without the requisite permits.This has caused the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) to increase its vigilance as it monitors the importation of...
Published:Monday | September 21, 2015 | 6:50 PMRyon Jones
There are conflicting reports coming out of preliminary investigations by the Child Development Agency (CDA) and those at the helm of Prickly Pole Primary and Infant School in Bensonton, St Ann, following the sudden death of an 11-year-old student...
Published:Sunday | September 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
THEY CAME from near and far for the People's National Party's (PNP) 77th Annual Conference, transforming the National Arena into a sea of orange with a sprinkling of yellow - a colour made more popular in the party by President Portia Simpson Miller...
Published:Saturday | September 19, 2015 | 10:18 AMRyon Jones
The Government has discontinued its financing of the training in veterinary medicine and dentistry by Jamaican students in Trinidad, leaving some fuming as they warn that this decision could come back to haunt Jamaica.For the past 20 years, the...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
SEVERAL RESIDENTS of St Mary have launched an appeal to the North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) and the Ministry of Health to urgently increase staff and equipment at the Annotto Bay Health Centre, which is struggling to cope. The...
Published:Saturday | September 12, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Forty-year-old Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus driver, William Foster, gave a gentle reminder that honest people still walk among us when he returned the wallet a passenger lost in his bus one day earlier.The owner of the wallet, Everold...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
If you are willing to pay as little as $200, then you can get any document signed by at least two justices of the peace (JPs) in Spanish Town, St Catherine, even if they don't know you.A Sunday Gleaner probe found the two JPs, kilometres apart, in...
Published:Saturday | August 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
For MANY of the athletes representing Jamaica at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, which wraps up in Beijing, China, today, it was hard work and the proverbial "blood, sweat, and tears" to achieve their goals.Now it is paying off as glory,...
Published:Friday | August 28, 2015 | 3:05 PMRyon Jones
Dane Kelly, who has vowed that he will not be like his dad and abandon his children, will find it a bit easier to send his three boys back to school after a Good Samaritan came to the assistance of the family recently.Kelly, a single father living...
Published:Friday | August 14, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Local ganja growers, particularly small farmers, are being urged to enter the formal market to benefit from the decriminalising of the product rather than seeking to operate in the underground economy.With ganja being illegal, growers had to operate...
Published:Friday | August 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Some members of the police force are being accused of demanding thousands of dollars from residents of Kitson Town in St Catherine before allowing them to keep any entertainment event.But the cops say the charge is baseless and is being levelled by...
Published:Saturday | August 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is crying foul over his dismissal and is demanding that he be reinstated.Miqueal Coulbourne, says he should be compensated for his wrongful dismissal from the JDF four years ago as the rules were not...
