A United States magistrate yesterday rejected a bail application for reggae superstar Buju Banton. The magistrate also denied a request from lawyers representing Buju that he be ordered moved to a non-maximum security penal institution.
It's minutes after nine in the morning and the stillness of the atmosphere outside the National Stadium gives no indication of the magnitude of the event which is taking place within the oval-shaped walls of the island's sporting headquarters.
The Government has allocated a further $40 million to the commission of enquiry into the 1990s collapse of the financial sector, despite coming under fire in January last year for its spending on the commission
The ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls and Boys' Athletic Championships is usually a happy time for everybody, whether you are a fan, a top athlete, a not-so-great one, or a proud school administrator. This is not the case for principal of York Castle High School in Brown's Town, St Ann.
UNEXPECTED CONTROVERSY unfolded yesterday at the first sitting of the Upper House in the new parliamentary year, with the Senate suspending senior opposition senator K.D. Knight for two meetings.
There is no provision in the 2010-2011 Budget for a number of entities which the Government has indicated its plans to divest. The Sugar Company of Jamaica, The Citrus Company of Jamaica, Clarendon Alumina Partners and Caymanas Track Limited...
Under increasing pressure from the Parliamentary Opposition and civil society for more information on the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips saga, the government has gone on the offensive while repeating its claim that it...
Something was missing from the ceremonial opening of Parliament yesterday. Let's see, government members? Check. Parliamentary Opposition? Ditto. Foreign diplomats, senators and other dignitaries?...
The Government is banking on traffic ticket inflows to provide a boost to its revenues this fiscal year. An examination of the 2010-2011 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday, reveals that the state is projecting...
With larger crowds expected at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships at the National Stadium today and tomorrow, organisers are assuring the public that they are serious about the matter of security...
GOVERNMENT HAS backed up its talk about an intention to build and refurbish suitable remand and correctional facilities for juveniles by allocating $174 million to the refurbishing of the Montpelier facility...
Governor General Patrick Allen yesterday declared that Jamaica has passed the worst of its challenges, as he delivered the 2010-11 Throne Speech in a sleepy ceremonial opening of Parliament."We have ridden the waves...
THE STIPULATIONS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forced the Government to rush through the passing of a piece of legislation which fell off the Order Paper last legislative year."I have been advised by...
As promised, total debt expenditure in the Estimates of Expenditure for the upcoming fiscal year has been slashed by $121.9 billion as compared with the final projections presented in the Second Supplementary Budget...
Prisoners who escaped from the Haitian National Penitentiary before arriving in Jamaica on Tuesday will be taken into custody and returned to Haiti to face charges there, the Government has revealed....
Spiralling crime in areas just outside the Mandeville city centre has raised anxiety among residents and business leaders, who say this could hamper the development of the parish.Vice-president of Northern Caribbean...
Rodney Chin's digital recordings continued to be played during the Cuban light-bulb trial yesterday.In one recording, made in February 2008, Spencer says that what Chin...
The Ministry of Health will have $33.2 billion to spend in the new fiscal year, up from the $28.6 billion it was given in 2009-2010. However, medical personnel, hospital administrators and patients all seem to agree that this was far from what was needed ...
MORE RESOURCES to improve the chronic space shortage in primary and secondary schools and the allocation of more funds to shore up the Ministry of Education's drive to eliminate illiteracy in schools form part...
WESTERN BUREAU:Stakeholders in the town of Lucea in Hanover will have to rethink their strategy for a sewage-treatment plant, as there are no plans by the National Water Commission to undertake any such construction....
Jamaican authorities have identified three of the 62 Haitians who reached local shores on Monday as prisoners who escaped when the National Penitentiary in which they...
THE USUAL festivity associated with the ceremonial opening of Parliament might be diminished today as crowds have been advised to stay away from the immediate vicinity of Gordon House...
TWO CRITICAL pieces of legislation, arguably the most far-reaching of the measures presented for passage during the just-concluded parliamentary year...
