The symptoms of an enlarged prostate include slow-flowing urine, increased night-time urination, increased overall frequency of urination, straining to pass urine, a sensation of incomplete bladder emptying, and increased time for urination...
IRONSHORE, St James: The Coffee N Crème Café, which began its operations five months ago, at Whitter Village in Ironshore, St James, is officially opened.
WESTERN BUREAU:Two men accused of trafficking cocaine and ganja to Canada in December 2010 had their case stalled in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court due to lack of documents from Canada.
Daegu, South Korea: Track and field's posterboy, Usain Bolt, will start his bid to become only the third man in history to win consecutive 100m world titles early this morning when he faces the starter for the first time at the 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics here.
The Police Civilian Oversight Authority (PCOA) and the Police Service Commission (PSC) are to be merged as the Government moves to implement one of the key recommendations from the strategic review of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has issued a reminder to members of the force that they should not discriminate against persons based on their religion, race, or sexual preference.
HUMAN RIGHTS group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has expressed satisfaction at news that an ex-cop implicated in the July 2003 shooting death of a nine-year-old girl is now in police custody.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the police have been challenged to speed up the process to arrest and charge members of the force involved in crimes.Reacting to news that a policeman has been arrested eight years after the DPP ruled that...
Police investigators say they now have information indicating that the driver of the truck involved in the crash along Highway 2000 on Monday, killing a father and his nine-year-old son, was driving in the wrong direction...
WESTERN BUREAU: Refusing to become a stereotypical Jamaican youth, 17-year-old St George's College student Oshane Carter has forged ahead with his eight distinctions and a credit in the 2011 Caribbean Secondary Education...
A pensive Reverend Cislyn Powell sat between her two grandchildren, five-year-old Hadiya and nine-year-old Zaunika Powell, at her home in Angels Grove, St Catherine, yesterday. It was a few hours after she heard that her son, Asafa Powell...
Mandeville, Manchester:A large number of residents and business persons gathered at the offices of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) on Villa Road, Mandeville, on Wednesday, to draw attention to what they claimed were the "unrealistically high"...
THE SUMMER holiday is winding down and for most students, the start of the 2011/2012 school year is days away. In about a week, school gates across the country will open and thousands of students will pour into classrooms, eager to learn...
Daegu, South Korea: The 2011 IAAF World Championships in Athletics is finally here and Jamaica's athletes are itching to hear the starter's gun. Decathlete Maurice Smith will be the first Jamaican in action on Saturday's opening day of the World Champs...
With $71-million profit from operations bolstered by a second-quarter hike in finance income, The Gleaner Company's six-month pre-tax profit moved to $188 million...
The educational bulwark that is the Kingston College (KC) North Street campus, for once, devoid of activities, stood still in the summer's heat, seemingly in a quiet salute to its late former principal Ivan 'Wally'...
WASHINGTON (CMC): Thousands were fleeing an exposed strip of coastal villages and beaches off North Carolina yesterday, as Irene approached, threatening to become the most powerful hurricane to hit the East Coast in seven years....
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On Thursday, Paul Doyle, Asafa Powell's agent, stated in a release that the Jamaican sprinter would not be participating in the 100m track and field event...
Immediately after he arrived on a charter flight with 70 other deportees, at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston yesterday, an ex-policeman who was on the run for eight years was greeted by some...
A man believed to have been employed to the family has been held in connection with the double murder of a lecturer and her husband in Discovery Bay, St Ann, on Wednesday.The bodies of senior lecturer Norma-Lyn Hall...
Member of Parliament for East Kingston and Port Royal, Phillip Paulwell, is raising concerns about the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), indicating that only some constituencies were benefiting....
Alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's attempt to avoid a lengthy prison sentence has received a possibly fatal blow with a United States district judge rejecting his motion to suppress wiretap...
Opposition spokesman on Finance Dr Peter Phillips has scoffed at a suggestion from Finance Minister Audley Shaw that the committee on taxation sit for no more than a month.Speaking during a town-hall meeting hosted by the Kingston and St Andrew parish...
Education Minister Andrew Holness says he would not have appointed Alphansus Davis as chairman of the Teachers' Services Commission had he known there would have been objections.Addressing the Jamaica Teachers' Association...
