The Royal Barbados Police Force says the quick action of law-enforcement officials led to the apprehension of 10 drug mules yesterday, eight of whom are Jamaicans.The 10 were among a group of 20 people who were initially held by authorities after...
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force is pushing to bring the country's murder rate in line with that of Costa Rica in seven years and believes the proposed anti-gang legislation will serve as a critical tool.Deputy Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds...
The Jamaica Olympic Association (JOA) has revealed that an exceptionally high demand for opportunities to watch the 2012 Olympics from the stands has led to the exhausting of its allotment of tickets for the Games to be held in London, United Kingdom, next year....
VETERAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and Public Defender Earl Witter is not supporting calls by senior members of the Government for the speedy reintroduction of capital punishment.Witter, who has spent more than 30 years in the courts, said, on Wednesday...
Education Minister Andrew Holness says the Government is developing a "groundbreaking" policy to hold parents responsible for the literacy of their children, as part of efforts to significantly reduce the rate of illiteracy in the country...
MIAMI, Florida: CHURCH MEMBERS across Jamaica and the United States whose monies Windemere Pastor Ainsley Blair invested with David Smith's Olint Corporation might get their cases heard at Smith's sentencing next...
The Government will be looking to the information, communication and technology (ICT) sector to provide thousands of well-needed jobs over the next 12 to 18 months and Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of industry...
MINISTER OF Education Andrew Holness is warning that government-run primary schools are now bursting at the seams and would have a difficulty in absorbing students from privately run institutions that might be facing closure....
On the evening of Saturday, July 30, 25-year-old Jamaican practical nurse Kerran Baker disappeared from her apartment on Arrow Drive in Bodden Town, Cayman Islands.Her family from Jamaica and Cayman, the Royal...
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders in Trelawny are optimistic that construction of the mega-size US$2-billion Harmony Cove casino resort project, which has missed several start-up deadlines, will begin in 2012....
ON SUNDAY, pastors from numerous churches sought to ease the intense fear that has gripped residents of Lauriston in Spanish Town, St Catherine following the beheading of three of its residents two weeks ago, with a mass march, prayer vigil and open church service...
THE COMMITTEE for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill (CUMI) in collaboration with the National Health Fund (NHF) has announced plans to purchase a psychiatric emergency response unit for use by the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH) in St James...
Spurred into action by a photograph published in The Gleaner last Saturday, the Office of the Public Defender is to move to protect small vendors (hawkers and pedlars) whose goods are repeatedly seized by the police....
The mother of a seven-year-old blind and brain-damaged girl has filed a suit against the East Regional Health Authority to recover damages for failure by its doctors to refer the child to an ophthalmologist...
The long-running impasse between the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) and the Ministry of Education over the appointment of Alphansus Davies as chair of the Teachers' Service Commission (TSC) could soon end as the ministry says it is prepared ...
MONTEGO BAY, St James: The National Works Agency (NWA) says a section of the King Street to Green Pond roadway in Montego Bay, St James, will be closed for five days, starting today, to facilitate the removal of worn asphalt."...
Today's planned reopening of the Bog Walk gorge has been delayed. Up to Tuesday, the National Works Agency had assured that the reopening was on schedule, but yesterday it was announced that the work being carried...
Six-year-old Howard Johnson Jr was very excited to start his first day at Allman Town Primary this September. He had just graduated from Torrington Early Childhood Institute and was ready to start 'big school'. Today, less than a month before the start...
The Office of the Public Defender has decided to swim against the tide of public opinion by taking up the fight of persons hurt by the Government's decision to shut down the scrap-metal industry. The public defender's...
WESTERN BUREAU: The security guard accused of killing British consul John Terry will have his case mentioned on September 9 in order to facilitate his lawyer's receipt of statement copies from the prosecution....
Professor Rosalea Hamilton, president of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Alliance, says complaints by its members to regulators about sharp increases in electricity bills, following the installation of new Jamaica Public Service Company...
Financial Secretary Wesley Hughes is dismissing concerns that the country could be in dire straits because of its inability to draw down on an estimated US$300 million under the standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....
DESPITE SOME adverse findings, the commissions set up by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) to investigate and clear candidates for the general elections due 2012 has been working...
JEFFREY TOWN Farmers Association of western St Mary was on Monday recognised for its strides in self-reliance, winning the Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance at the Little Theatre in St Andrew....
Not even the inclement weather could dampen the lively spirit of patrons who turned out Monday for the annual Emancipation Day Donkey Racing in Top Hill, St Catherine.Names such as 'Star Boy', 'Beer', 'Radigon', 'Blue' and 'Long Distant Stulla',...
