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Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Western Bureau: For the first time in more than a decade, local producers are now providing all the sugar required to satisfy the lucrative domestic market, which in former times had to be supplemented by supplies from the import...

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The World Bank has voiced concern about what it described as the exorbitant cost of sending remittances to the Caribbean.The World Bank said in some cases, migrant workers were forced to pay as much as US$50 to send US$200, and it said this was...

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Growing up in Jamaica has sometimes felt like being caught between a horror film and a tourist brochure of beautiful places you could never imagine existed.

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Embattled Senior Super-intendent James Forbes was in line for promotion to the rank of assistant commissioner of Police at the time of his arrest on corruption charges.The revelation came from Deputy Commissioner Linval Bailey as he gave evidence -...

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

"There is no doubt that the Jamaican economy is in a better place today than it was 12 months ago," said Richard Byles, co-chairman of the Economic Programme Oversight Committee (EPOC)....

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Prosecutors yesterday ripped into Senior Superintendent James Forbes' account of the meeting at the centre of the corruption charges brought against him and asked a magistrate to reject them and find him guilty....

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell yesterday dismissed suggestions he was on the verge of disbanding the Energy Monitoring Committee (EMC)."There is no intent to disband the EMC," Paulwell told The Gleaner after the scheduled start of yesterday's Cabinet...

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is accusing Gleaner columnist Martin Henry of being irresponsible in comments he made about the bus company's reformation of the subfranchise system in The Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR)....

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Convicted entertainer Vybz Kartel issued a statement yesterday appealing to individuals to stop threatening journalists for their coverage of his murder case and post-trial reporting.Yesterday, Flying Squad detectives interviewed journalists Karyl...

Published:Tuesday | April 15, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Petula Lindsay is no ordinary mother, and with five children to care for, this creative woman has used the contribution from the Programme for the Advancement Though Health and Education (PATH) to work wonders...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Struggling to deal with the problem of electricity theft, the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) is proposing a scheme that could see residents of depressed communities having access to utilities for a small fee....

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Blocking the International Mobile Equipment Identification (IMEI) of a smart phone reported stolen was once thought to be an effective measure to deter phone thieves. However this has changed in recent years as criminals have found new ways to circumvent...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Promoters of the popular Reggae Sumfest stage show had just brought the curtains down on the event's final day, and as the crowd pushed its way towards the exits, so, too, did a young man, pressing his fingers...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

PHILLIP PAULWELL needs to focus his sights almost exclusively on lowering Jamaica's energy bill and ensuring the revival of the country's bauxite sector...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Bus operators to fight new rules - At least one organisation representing public passenger operators in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) has signalled its intention to wage a legal battle against the Government over new...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Confessed 'teka', Peter, has revealed that his syndicate is just one of many operating all across the island under the same mantra."We don't go work any and anywhere.

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

ENERGY MINISTER Phillip Paulwell is facing demands that he state his position on the future of the Energy Monitoring Committee (EMC), which The Sunday Gleaner yesterday reported is...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

As Government seeks approval for its proposed budget for the fiscal year, President General of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) Kavan Gayle has challenged its credibility in fashioning a coherent economic growth plan."You can't be credible...

Published:Monday | April 14, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Mere minutes before her 28th birthday, Latoya Campbell-Thompson was shot and killed by the man she had vowed to spend the rest of her life with. Campbell-Thompson was reportedly shot by her husband of three years...

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The Government has agreed to compensate a St Andrew woman with just under $9 million for a misdiagnosis that she was HIV-positive.

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Buoyed by news that Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell is to sign a licence giving it the right to supply 381 megawatts of generating capacity using natural gas as its fuel source, officials of Energy World International (EWI) arrived in the island late...

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

INDUSTRY MINISTER Anthony Hylton says the establishment of enterprise zones, as part of the proposed logistics hub, will be dependent on the ability of investors to generate their own power.

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

Government is getting ready to back up its threat to hold parents more responsible for the well-being of their children, but the National Parenting Support Commission argues that being tough will not solve the parenting problems dogging the country.

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

SOME OF country's parish councils are being accused of gross negligence which has contributed to several districts across the island being without water.

Published:Sunday | April 13, 2014 | 12:00 AM

The search is on for a new board of directors for the National Water Commission (NWC) as a 60-day extension granted to the present board comes to an end.

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