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Published:Sunday | November 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) opened its mass rally in Richmond, St Mary Sunday with a swipe at Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller for her pronouncement that she is awaiting the Master's beckoning to call the election. No sooner had the...

Published:Friday | November 27, 2015 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue, Senior Gleaner Writer

Imam David Muhammad, a Trinidad Muslim leader has joined the social media controversy over the widespread regret for the ISIS-led attacks in Paris given the little world attention for terror attacks in Africa earlier this year. Muhammad, who is in...

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Former Public Defender Earl Witter has complained that his work has constantly been stymied by a lack of co-operation from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Witter complained at Thursday's sitting of the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry that...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

There are suggestions that evidence was planted at a scene in Tivoli Gardens aimed at misleading the Commission enquiring into the May 2010 police-military incursion in Western Kingston. Minutes after a retired police officer attached to the Office...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:29 PMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Former Public Defender Earl Witter today maintained that the movement of West Kingston residents was unnecessarily restricted for more than 72 hours after the security forces entered the area to nab gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in...

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Leo Taddeo, the chairman of New Era Homes 2000 Limited, is behind bars on sexual offence charges. The Real Estate Developer, who is a Canadian national, was taken into custody late last week. Noted attorney-at-law K.D. Knight has confirmed that he...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Labour Party Leader, Andrew Holness says he will not respond to criticisms by the People's National Party's Dr Peter Phillips about his mansion.  Holness was responding to comments made by Phillips in Portmore, St...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

GRANVILLE, St James: Calling it the "dollar grind", Opposition spokesman on Finance Audley Shaw on Sunday night crushed the stewardship of the Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips for what he regarded as the devaluation of the Jamaican...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

GRANVILLE, St James: General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Dr Horace Chang says the longer Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller takes to call the election, the hotter the beating she will receive. Chang, speaking at a political...

Published:Sunday | November 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

MONTEGO BAY, St James: The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP's) Rose Heights Division caretaker Arthur Lynch took to the political platform in Granville, St James Sunday predicting that his party will take the western city in the next general...

Published:Friday | November 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Backed by a catchy new tune, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Andrew Holness on Thursday night urged Labourites in South East St Elizabeth to bid Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller good bye. Like a disc jockey at a dancehall session Holness...

Published:Thursday | November 19, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Bad mind, grudgeful and envious were how Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) deputy general secretary Audley Gordon described Campaign Director for the People’s National Party Dr Peter Phillips for bringing the issue of the mansion of JLP leader...

Published:Sunday | November 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Veteran politician Pearnel Charles has reignited the gay debate telling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in St Ann that a four-year-old promise by then Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller was purely aimed at getting support. In the...

Published:Sunday | November 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

ALEXANDRIA, St Ann: It has been an untidy situation as traffic attempt to trundle through a crowded Alexandria square in South West St Ann where the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is holding its mass meeting. From the political platform, JLP...

Published:Sunday | November 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Audley Shaw, the fiery Jamaica Labour Party Spokesman on Finance has acknowledged that he erred last week when he told supporters that a Health Ministry audit team had reported from as far back as August that there was an infectious outbreak in the...

Published:Sunday | November 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips was the target of criticisms from a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) platform in Spanish Town, St Catherine Sunday evening. “We have had other bad PNP Governments as but what (has) happened under this one is a...

Published:Sunday | November 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Retired police officer Newton Amos, the Jamaica Labour Party's standard bearer for North West St Catherine has vowed to dispatch into retirement the incumbent People's National Party MP Robert Pickersgill. Amos whipped the crowd...

Published:Friday | November 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Delano Seiveright, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Eastern St Thomas says his focus, if elected, will be directed at introducing tourism to what he described as the most neglected parish in the island. “I commit to you that there...

Published:Thursday | November 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Andrew Holness has promised the people of St Thomas that his government would create special agricultural zones in the parish. Speaking at the ‘Poverty to Prosperity’ session in Morant Bay, Eastern St...

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

Willemstad, Curacao: The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) is forecasting a five to six per cent growth in tourist arrivals for the region in 2015. The news comes as the region outpaces all other major regions globally, with record numbers for...

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO: JetBlue Airways CEO and president, Robin Hayes, is warning Caribbean leaders to carefully consider how taxes are levied on passengers travelling to the region. In his keynote address at the opening ceremony of the State of the...

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMSenior Gleaner Writer

Willemstad, Curacao: As JetBlue Airways makes its impact in the Caribbean and Latin America, it's CEO and president, Robin Hayes says the rest of the region should not show too much concern about Cuba taking away chunks of its tourism pie....

Published:Thursday | October 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

British High Commissioner to Jamaica, David Fitton has said it was not Britain’s idea to exclude media interviews for the visit of Prime Minister David Cameron. The Press Association of Jamaica had raised concern that there was no opportunity...

Published:Monday | September 21, 2015 | 12:00 AMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

The United States Embassy in Kingston has expressed approval of what it describes as the professional approach adopted by local security personnel in dealing with another security scare at the Old Hope Road facility. Joshua Polacheck, IRC Associate...

Published:Thursday | September 10, 2015 | 12:27 PMGary Spaulding, Senior Gleaner Writer

The PNP this morning launched its 77th annual conference slated for September 18-20. At a press conference to launch the conference, PNP chairman Robert Pickersgill said the second of the three-day conference will focus on election...

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