GROWING UP in the tough community of Rockfort, which sits just east of capital city Kingston, was never easy for Simone Berdoe. There were nights, she recalls, that her family had to lie flat on the floor of their house...
THE Saga surrounding the engagement of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the United States (US) government on the extradition matter involving alleged crime lord Christopher Coke took a new twist yesterday when Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
THE Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has defended the role of Courtesy Corps officers deployed across the island's resort towns. The defence comes in the wake of criticism from stakeholders in Ocho Rios...
Supreme Court judge Roy Jones has called for the United States government to make its voice heard in court proceedings seeking to determine if Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne has the authority to decline the extradition request for West Kingston...
Senior investigators are hot on the heels of the perpetrators responsible for shooting and critically injuring Oneil Edwards of the popular dancehall group Voicemail.Meanwhile, dancehall entertainer Mad Cobra...
Gunmen travelling in a motor car sprayed residents of a section of Mountain View Avenue with bullets late Monday, killing one man and injuring three others. The police have identified the dead man as 20-year-old André Mills, also...
LONDON (AP): Conservative leader David Cameron became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years yesterday after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government...
A music video shot in Jamaica by international recording artiste Aubrey 'Drake' Graham, featuring dancehall heavyweight David 'Mavado' Brooks, has prompted Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett to warn local acts to be careful about the way they portray Jamaica....
The life of yet another Jamaican child has been snuffed out by gunmen who continue to blaze a bloody trail across the island. Nine-year-old Moesha Campbell, a student of the St Peter Claver Primary School, became child murder victim number 22 when...
There will be no midterm break for students at public schools whose teachers took strike action.A release from the Ministry of Education yesterday said it plans to compensate for the two school days lost - Monday, May 3 and Tuesday, May 4 - by limiting...
Gang feuds have been blamed for 38 of the 609 murders committed across the island since the start of this year, but the police accept that marauding criminal gangs are responsible for much more....
Dear Mr Bassie, I am going to be working in the UK and travelling back and forth to Jamaica over the next few months.My travel agent has advised me to enrol in the iris recognition immigration system (IRIS).
Good morning Sharon,I will be getting married this year and I would love it if my wedding could take place in Canada, but my husband-to-be is in Jamaica.My question is, can I send an invitation for him and we get married here? Or, would it be wise that...
The female teacher accused of abusing a 14-year-old girl last Thursday at the Braeton Primary and Junior High School in Portmore, St Catherine, is nowhere to be found.The teacher, who was absent from school last Friday...
Police investigators say there are "serious gaps" in the initial account of how five-year-old Evan Sebastian Spencer - found with his throat slashed in Clarendon too Sundays ago - was found.
MINISTER OF Industry, Investment and Commerce Karl Samuda will today open the annual Sectoral Debate in Parliament. Samuda, one of three speakers scheduled to participate in the Debate today, is expected to outline the administration's efforts to create...
Despite being advertised overseas as a 'friendly city', on the ground, Montego Bay, St James, is fast becoming a killing field where the joys of sea, sand and sun are steadily being replaced by the murderous rampage of gangsters....
Rocked by the shooting of one of the nation's more popular dancehall singers, members of Jamaica's entertainment community are declaring it time for artistes to stop glorifying gunmen.
Newly elected president of the general assembly of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Jesús Silva, hopes to attract new contractors and raise the organisation's profile during his one-year tenure.
EDUCATION MINISTER Andrew Holness has expressed grave concerns that a teacher strike could affect students' performance in the upcoming Grade Four Literacy Test. Holness' warning comes in the wake of the revelation of results...
Children's Advocate Mary Clarke has urged Jamaicans to "target our boys" for urgent intervention. Clarke, who was a guest at a Gleaner Editors' Forum last Friday, said the statistics relating to young boys were worrying...
Weeds might be overrunning sections of May Pen Cemetery in downtown Kingston, but some families are determined not to allow them to choke the resting place of their loved ones.Yesterday, as Jamaica celebrated Mother's Day...
The tempo of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy - in which the United States law firm was asked to help resolve an extradition matter between Jamaica and the US - is set to increase this week, even as the Government maintains...
