WITH THE lack of green space in Portmore being a topical issue, elected representatives and civic leaders are crying for more to be done to preserve the little space that is available. "If we are talking about Portmore being affected by crime...
THE ST Catherine South police have adopted a zero-tolerance approach to crime which has been on the rise in several Portmore communities."We are not yielding to anyone anymore. "We are not yielding to anyone anymore. We used to do that," stated...
San Juan, Puerto Rico: TOURISM INTERESTS are warning that the multibillion-dollar Montego Bay Convention Centre (MBCC) could become a white elephant if a management company is not appointed soon to commence the marketing of the facilities...
THE GOVERNMENT has said there would be no room for failure when it implements its debt-management programme, which is said to be a critical plank of its economic agenda. Information Minister Daryl Vaz told The Gleaner yesterday that Cabinet, which had just emerged...
FOR MANY years, the construction industry has been the magnet for hustlers looking to make a quick buck. The industry has also been a feeding tree for corruption, particularly with regard to government projects....
WITHOUT WARNING, an investigative team from the Office of the Contractor General (OCG), accompanied by the police, turned up at the New Kingston offices of the National Housing Trust (NHT) last Friday morning to conduct a snap audit...
THE LEGAL profession was once placed on a pedestal because of the honesty and integrity of its members. But in recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of allegations levelled against some attorneys-at-law for professional misconduct...
THE DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, has warned that corruption will remain a major problem until Jamaicans decide to actively fight against the scourge.
"Jamaicans will have to be prepared to assist in exposing corruption....
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THE ENTIRE board of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) has resigned with immediate effect. The Sunday Gleaner was informed yesterday that the members of the Hugh Nash-led board tendered their resignations last Wednesday in what is being described...
The disclosure last week by the Office of the Contractor General of a corrupt network involving a senior employee of its office, sham contractors, and possibly employees of the National Housing Trust...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and members of his Cabinet are scheduled to emerge from a four-day retreat today with details of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement and the medium-term economic framework settled.The debt-management programme...
CHIEF WATCHDOG of the country's contracts-award process, Greg Christie, has revealed that the sham contractors implicated in the National Housing Trust saga are just the tip of what appears to be the colossal iceberg of shady service providers getting government contracts...
Assistant Police Commissioner Justin Felice is gearing up for another tough year as he continues his drive to rid the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) of corrupt cops."It's hard word. "It's hard word. It's hard work," Felice told ...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has reacted sharply to charges by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller that his administration was attempting to politicise the National Housing Trust (NHT)."The allegation by the leader of the opposition that the...
WHILE EXTRAORDINARY levels of violence have severely hit some parishes across the island, St Mary, which customarily takes its fair share of battering from natural disasters, has proven to be one of the safest...
JEROME YOUNG used to write "violent" lyrics, and would now like to use his life experiences to speak out against violence in schools.Young, a Jamaican who fought in the war in Iraq for the US Army, aims to target...
THE MINISTRY of Agriculture is warning against the importation of monkeys and other exotic animals as pets.This comes in the wake of recent reports that an illegally imported pet monkey bit a child in an upscale St Andrew...
THE NATIONAL Health Fund (NHF) is downplaying recent reports of fraud involving two pharmacies, which are part of its health care-provider network.The irregularities were discovered after the NHF's auditors discovered several discrepancies during a...
THE PORTMORE Municipal Council has pledged to support the police in their efforts to curb the rising crime rate in the St Catherine South Division.Mayor of Portmore Keith Hinds warned that if the problem of crime was not...
A CLARENDON-based teacher, who allegedly defrauded three persons after they responded to newspaper advertisements regarding motor cars for sale, has been charged by the police.Keisha Anderson, who teaches at the Freetown...
Statistics released by the Police High Command on Friday have revealed that of the 14 parishes, St James has the unenviable reputation of recording the highest murder rate for 2009.
A Jamaica-born Muslim cleric who has called for the killing of Americans, Hindus and Jews has not committed any crimes in Jamaica and the country will take him in, said Kenneth Baugh, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade yesterday...
Despite an overall 10 per cent increase in police operations, the number of murders reported last year is expected to climb past 1,670. However, acting Deputy Commissioner of police Glenmore Hinds, who yesterday announced...
A team of local and international lawyers has started the battle for compensation for the passengers of the American Airlines aircraft which overshot the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport last month...
Chairman of the ICD Group Limited and president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), Joseph Matalon, took aim at Jamaica's economic development yesterday. Speaking at the eighth Annual Caribbean MBA Conference held at the Hilton Kingston...
