The police have opted to forego an identification parade for 50-year-old businessman Patrick Powell, who was yesterday charged with the murder of 17-year-old Kingston College student Khajeel Mais.
A measure of hope has been restored for victims of the fire that destroyed several homes in the west Kingston community of Denham Town last Saturday, leaving losses estimated at more than $20 million....
The JamaicaN Bar Association (JBA) will tomorrow host its annual banquet. Each year the members of the association recognise and honour persons from the judiciary and from the legal fraternity who have served in their profession with distinction and excellence...
THE INTERIM head of a CARICOM security body says a proposed project to facilitate the sharing of critical ballistics information among the Caribbean community could go far way in smashing criminal networks involved in transnational...
The policeman who was reported to be the mastermind behind the theft of guns and ammunition from the police armoury was found guilty yesterday of illegal possession of 18 firearms and more than 9,000 rounds ...
The relatively quiet community of Lauriston in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been plunged into despair following gruesome acts two days apart.The residents are so fearful they refuse to speak. No one wants to be the next victim...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was yesterday presented with 21 new patrol vehicles, courtesy of Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL), during a handover ceremony at the Police Commissioner's Office on Old Hope Road, St Andrew.According to Karl Angell,...
With the Government's decision to put a hold on the scrap-metal industry, two of the island's major utilities providers are hoping they will get a break from the theft which has become a part of their daily operations....
Jamaica's traditional sweetener is being married off to other products on the market, bringing back somewhat sour memories of the days of scarcity in the 1970s when just about every edible thing, and some that were...
TWO YEARS after the Government indicated its willingness to put an end to the monopoly of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the Bruce Golding administration is backing away from that position. Energy Minister Clive Mullings told the House of Representatives yesterday...
Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster yesterday voted with Government members to secure the extension of a piece of legislation which gives the police power to arrest suspected criminals without...
As the People's National Party (PNP) hits the road on its two-day near-islandwide political jaunt, its secretariat remains adamant that the extensive bus tour does not signal the official start of the party's...
South West St Catherine Member of Parliament Everald Warmington yesterday accused House Leader Andrew Holness of carrying out instructions aimed at muzzling him."I am sick of this!" Warmington said, as his anger meter skyrocketed in the House of...
Despite claims that the temporary ban on the scrap-metal trade in Jamaica will adversely affect thousands of families, the Government has insisted that its first duty is to the national good.Dr Christopher...
Supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) in North East St Ann are expected to gather at the party's constituency office in St Ann's Bay this morning in anticipation of the arrival of the party's motorcade on its...
On the day Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp, testified before a United Kingdom House committee about the scandal rocking his multibillion-dollar media empire, senior journalists in Jamaica yesterday gave their opinion on...
LONDON (AP):Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner resigned yesterday, a day after his boss also quit, and fresh investigations of possible police wrongdoing were launched in the phone-hacking scandal that has spread from Rupert Murdoch's media empire...
MINISTER with responsibility for information Daryl Vaz has urged the local media to be fair to politicians, saying their jobs should not make them fair game for unethical journalism.
"A politician should not be defamed, maligned, and stereotyped...
The father of national 110m hurdles record holder, Dwight Thomas, was killed at his home in St Catherine yesterday. According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), 62-year-old Ashton Thomas was chopped and shot to death by unknown assailants...
Dan Meridor, Israel's deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy, was in Jamaica on a one-day visit to meet with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and a number of government ministers to discuss ways to strengthen ties between both countries....
As the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) intensifies its probe into the whereabouts of 174 unlicensed firearms, a retired senior police officer has been included in a list to be sent to Police Commissioner Owen Ellington for him to take the appropriate action....
Political analysts accused of being hostile towards the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) say they are not fazed by the stance of Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional arm of the party, against them and the media...
Q. I have a 28-year-old sister who was once was engaged to the father of her two children.
It has been a long relationship but I don't see the sense for her to be in it...
Q. My 17-year-old son maxed out my credit cards on junk online. His grandmother says that I am to forgive him and move on. This is not the first time that he is giving trouble with money concerns. His father is not in the picture....
NEWLY APPOINTED Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Dr Christopher Tufton has responded to deafening calls from various sectors for a shutdown of the scrap-metal industry by instituting a temporary ban....
