AS THE Child Development Agency (CDA) celebrates 10 years of existence, a raft of measures is being put in place to better care and protect the nation's children.The measures were announced at the agency's media launch on...
Nearly one month after announcing Dr Vin Lawrence as the head of an implementation team to drive Jamaica's base-load energy project, the Cabinet has not yet pinned down the exact duties the six-member team will be required to execute....
WESTERN BUREAU: Preliminary figures indicate that Jamaica's stopover arrivals for the winter tourist season, have outperformed 2013, says Minister of Tourism and Entertainment..
THE police yesterday arrested Omar 'Dawdie' Spaulding in Denham Town, west Kingston, and recovered three illegal weapons from an apartment he shared with his common-law wife and a child.Superintendent Leon Clunis described Spaulding as "one of the major...
WESTERN BUREAU: A senior official of Women Incorporated in western Jamaica has decried the cloak of silence that results in many cases of sexual and physical abuse against boys going unreported in the society....
New research highlighting the correlation between gender and corruption has found that the most common difference in how men and women experience corruption is through sexual exploitation. The study, titled Gender...
The Jamaica Public Service (JPS) has taken a step forward in its efforts to provide consumers with a new energy-saving product in the form of its UPS eMPOWER system.The company launched its portable energy source for large...
Western Bureau: The case of slain tourism worker Dean Moriah, who was stabbed to death in 2013, was deferred to June 10 when it was mentioned in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, as the case file was...
NOTING THAT cruise passengers who cruise on Royal Caribbean spend an average of US$106 per day, North Trelawny Member of Parliament Patrick Atkinson said the beautification of the town will create economic opportunities for persons in the parish....
JAMAICANS WITH a Taxpayer Registration Number (TRN) will join the list of persons on the voters' list as persons who could be selected for jury duty.The addition of persons on the TRN list to the age-old system of using persons on the voters' list only...
Sandra stood proudly as she showed The Gleaner her Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) electricity bill for the month of May, which came to a total of J$124.95....
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has implored the country to hold politicians and those in public office to a higher standard. Addressing a Rotary Club of Spanish Town meeting on Tuesday evening at the Police Officers Club in St Andrew ...
University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Anthony Harriott will join Barbadian Sir David Simmons and former appeals court judge Hazel Harris in presiding over a commission of enquiry into the May 2010 police-military operation in West Kingston.
Approximately 1,000 families are to participate in the phased implementation of a welfare-to-work programme which is expected to cost approximately $600 million...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has indicated it will not be sparing those upscale neighbourhoods that were once perceived to be escaping the company's radar.The light-and-power company, in a release yesterday, said some three persons from...
Alice Jones remembers fondly when she would look out particularly for Miss Lou's column in The Sunday Gleaner."I liked how she wrote, and she was very funny."Born in Red Ground, Jones was raised in Barton's.
Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson is urging that the debate over Jamaica's buggery law be framed within the context of current world trends and the realities that various differences exist in the society....
MORANT BAY, St Thomas: ACTING DEPUTY director general at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Horace Glaze, has said the completion of a $3.2 million house reroofing and building project, along...
Bar Association against Bain dismissal - The Jamaican Bar Association has said the firing of former director of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Resource Training Network, Professor Brendan Bain, may be viewed as an act of contempt of court.Bain provided...
With more than 90 years of service to the young girls of the country, the Girls' Brigade has played an integral role in the development of some of the country's strongest women, and, even more important...
HOPE BAY, Portland:IN AN effort to improve the working environment of law-enforcement officers who have managed to keep a lid on crime in nearby rural communities, a number of civil-society groups, stakeholders, and other...
JUNIOR FOREIGN minister Arnaldo Brown has urged members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to move with some urgency to agree on various categories of commitments, particularly the trade facilitation activities that can be implemented immediately....
WESTERN BUREAU: THE RASTAFARI Coral Gardens Committee (RCGC) is once again calling on Government to formally apologise to the Rastafarian community and render appropriate levels of compensation for atrocities suffered...
