Published:Friday | May 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Jamaicans are paying more for solar water heaters than they need to because CARICOM member states Barbados and St Lucia have repeatedly blocked efforts by the Government to remove the common external tariff (CET) imposed on those items imported from...
Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Children who display behavioural problems are often branded as rude, but experts argue that in many instances, this is not the case and that there is, in fact, some underlying psychological problem that the youngsters need help coping with.A mobile...
Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna has given the Child Development Agency (CDA) eight weeks to identify a suitable location for the construction of the first therapeutic facility on the island for the treatment of children and adolescents with...
Published:Friday | May 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Her innocence was stolen when she was only 11 years old. Her childhood ended at 15 years old, when her virginity was stolen and replaced with the burden of motherhood.That is the story of Raquel*, who is now 18 years old and trying to move on with...
Published:Saturday | May 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The sexually abused teenager who was taken into state care last Tuesday after returning home, having been missing for more than three weeks, with a tale of being abducted and, along with several other girls, forced into prostitution has been...
Published:Tuesday | May 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
ONE ADULT male has been taken into custody after The Gleaner yesterday broke the story of 14-year-old Shanique, who claimed she was kidnapped, and, along with other girls, forced into prostitution.Preliminary checks by the Centre for Investigation...
Published:Monday | May 4, 2015 | 8:10 PMRyon Jones
After being missing for four weeks, a girl attending a prominent Corporate Area high school tells a chilling tale of being abducted and forced into prostitution, which could give some insight into where some of 4,394 children that have gone missing...
Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Residents of Campbell Town in central Kingston are living in fear as any day their houses could be transformed into a blazing inferno, trapping them inside,...
Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), which was mandated to design a regulatory plan for the decriminalised ganja industry, has developed a 17-step scientific footprint proposal.According to the BSJ, the new ganja industry, which will be...
Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Several wholesales and shops operating across the island could be doing so in breach of all the rules regarding food handling and storage because the state agency mandated to monitor them just doesn't know that they exist.Operating in the public but...
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Some gas stations on the island have been engaged in the practice of slapping additional charges on customers who do not pay for petrol with cash, and they are doing so without informing the consumers. Motorists who use debit and credit cards at...
Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
More than one year after it was first announced that the Government of Jamaica and the Mexican government would collaborate to effect much-needed repairs to the access road to the Riverton City Dump in St Andrew, it seems work is finally to get...
Published:Saturday | April 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Hundreds of persons living in Riverton City and nearby communities in the Corporate Area have beenbattling smoke nuisance for more than a week as hunters of scrap metal are burning tyres to access the wire inside.Just 13 days ago, a storage area for...
Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The responsibility for preventing unfit meat reaching consumers is a shared one with several stakeholders required to play their part, but The Sunday Gleaner has found that many entities are falling down on the job and putting Jamaicans at risk. The...
Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Several wholesales in downtown Kingston are rejecting $1 coins as payment for goods, declaring the legal tender unacceptable in their facilities."Go throw them weh; nobody no want them," declared one wholesale operator on East Queen Street when a...
Published:Saturday | April 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
"It is my intention to apply for a spirit licence to sell rum, gin, brandy and other distilled spirit at the next court session" is a sign a seen so often at bars, pubs and taverns across the island that many believe it is a necessary part of the...
Published:Monday | April 13, 2015 | 8:24 PMRyon Jones
Residents of the Corporate Area were given a serious scare yesterday morning, as thick, black smoke was seeing coming from in the vicinity of the Riverton City dump, raising fears that the landfill was ablaze yet again. It, however, turned out to be...
Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 7:24 AMRyon Jones
Neither talent, skill nor intention could save Michael Gardine from himself and a life littered with jail time and hard knocks.Having grown up in the tough east Kingston community of McIntyre Villa (Dunkirk), Gardine admitted to running with the...
Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
A criminal gang operating out of downtown Kingston is offering to fill prescriptions at a fraction of the cost, with the only drawback being that the medications are not done in the name of the person they are prescribed to. A Sunday Gleaner probe...
Published:Thursday | April 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Thousands of persons who travel on Marcus Garvey Drive in the Corporate Area on a daily basis face a real danger, as some desperate young men steal petrol from moving tankers in the vicinity of the Petrojam Refinery. The young men can be seen at odd...
Published:Saturday | April 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
Vendors in downtown Kingston continue to sell meat discarded at the Riverton City dump despite a declaration from the authorities that efforts would be made to halt this dangerous practice. When our news team returned to sections of Spanish Town Road...
Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
The battle for customers in Jamaica between telecommunications rivals Digicel and LIME is at its fiercest, with the latest tactic employed by the former being branded as guerrilla marketing. The accusation, which has made LIME's Vice-President of...
Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
National Security Minister Peter Bunting believes most of the blame for the violent deaths of the country's children since the start of the year must be laid at the feet of the families, friends and community members of the young victims and not the...
Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones
For years vendors have been illegally peddling meat openly on the streets of downtown Kingston, but it has come to the attention of The Sunday Gleaner that the practice is even more unhygienic than what meets...
Published:Thursday | March 19, 2015 | 11:05 AMRyon Jones
Having spent close to five years in court successfully fighting off charges of money laundering, conspiracy to defraud and breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act, former People's National Party Junior Energy Minister Kern Spencer could soon find...
