WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers are preparing for the interrogation of the main suspect in the killing of Khajeel Mais even as the initial autopsy could not determine the cause of death.The suspect arrived on the island...
DEFENCE ATTORNEY Patrick Atkinson has called for the police to use the manner in which they have been releasing information about the killing of Kingston College student Khajeel Mais as a template for how they should...
THE JAMAICA Association for the Deaf (JAD) and the Organisation of American States, National Conference on Bilingual Deaf Education, came to a close with a number of proposals put forward on how to implement and properly monitor the use of the Plus...
An American immigration attorney is among members of the international community who have reacted to a Sunday Gleaner report featuring a Jamaican man who was deported from the United States two weeks ago under...
Member of Parliament (MP) Fitz Jackson has asked Contractor General Greg Christie to conduct a special audit of two projects in his St Catherine South constituency, which were approved under the Constituency...
Jamaica's Fedrick Dacres recently made history by winning gold in the discus competition at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France, throwing a world-leading 67.05 metres for the victory...
WESTERN BUREAU: President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, Evelyn Smith, has come out in defence of all-inclusive hotel operations after a recent World Bank report that sees enclave tourism as a poor contributor to the economy."At the same...
CHRISTOPHER READ, managing director of Jamaica Air Shuttle Limited, yesterday announced that the airline will add a third weekly flight between Jamaica and Haiti effective August 3.The flight, which will operate on Wednesdays, provides direct access...
Moshe Sermoneta, Israel's ambassador to Jamaica, says his country is interested in helping Jamaica solve its energy crisis. Sermoneta also said Jamaica's agriculture and tourism could benefit from closer relations...
New Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is meeting with key stakeholders in the judicial system to hear some of the challenges facing the sector.Chuck, who took office last Tuesday, has already met with Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn...
Lawyers representing alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have urged a United States (US) court to declare illegal the two controversial memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed by Jamaica's former National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips....
The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) newest candidate for the next general election is Spanish Town Mayor Dr Andrew Wheatley. Wheatley, polling 306 of 345 delegate votes, yesterday defeated Dr Sandra Nesbeth...
The Jamaica Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is calling for greater consideration of the needs of members of the disabled community in mitigation planning for instances of natural disaster....
The Municipality of Portmore has recently signed on to an agreement with the United Nations (UN) to seek out measures to bolster its infrastructure against natural disasters. Portmore mayor, Keith Hinds, said the agreement...
During her five-and-a-half-year tenure as Mexican ambassador to Jamaica, Leonora Rueda has seen three governors general and an equal number of prime ministers in office.Rueda, who arrived in the island in January 2006....
LILLE, France: Jamaica ended yesterday's final day of the IAAF World Youth Championships (WYC) in Lille, France, in truly amazing fashion, mining four medals to push their final tally to nine, equalling the country's best-ever showing at the meet....
Police investigators probing the death of 17-year-old schoolboy Khajeel Mais have been accused of double standards for their decision not to release the identity of the alleged BMW X6 killer as a person of interest....
The 17th annual session of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) opens today at its Jamaica Conference Centre headquarters in downtown Kingston.Over 90 of the organisation's 162 members are expected to attend ...
A building consisting of 30 studio apartments, which the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) claims is constructed on less than a quarter acre of land, is one of three structures the council is moving to demolish.However, it could take some time...
The two men charged with conspiracy to murder Ian Johnson appeared in the St Thomas Circuit Court on Friday.Johnson is the man who made allegations that former Mining and Energy Minister James Robertson, and others, plotted...
WESTERN BUREAU :The Bureau of Special investigation has launched a probe into the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of two men by the police in Green Pond, St James, Saturday morning.The dead men are...
Jamaica recently moved closer to developing a national strategy to address the threat of marine invasive alien species following consultations among experts drawn from different specialities at a forum held recently...
By creating an easier but more secure system of access to a 'birth paper' - and all other documents - for the public, Registrar General's Department's (RGD) CEO and Deputy Keeper of...
Raquel Morgan, the distraught mother who did not know that her son had been transferred from police lock-up to a place of safety, says she feels better now that her son has been removed from the lock-up, but knowing...
