SENATORS YESTERDAY depicted the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) as exploitative, burdensome, and extortionist, forcing Leader of Opposition Business Senator A.J. Nicholson to pour oil on troubled waters.
SADIE COMRIE has served more than four decades in the education system and, from all indications, she has no plans to give it up any time soon.Comrie, who was nominated by the May Pen Primary School after serving in the system for 44 years, was among...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland:AFTER DECADES of operating without pension or health insurance benefits, raftsmen who ply their trade along Portland's Rio Grande are being offered a lifeline by the Micro, Small and Medium...
WESTERN BUREAU: The students of Refuge Primary School in Trelawny have received gifts of personal chalkboards and special-educational attention from members of the Praying Pelican Missions from Pennsylvania in the United States.
WESTERN BUREAU:THE GOVERNMENT is working aggressively to meet a September deadline for the opening of a refurbishing plant in Montego Bay, where more than 300 of the 750 damaged Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses will be...
WESTERN BUREAU:MONTEGO BAY-BASED child and family therapist Dr Beverley Scott has taken the bold step towards helping suicidal children in western Jamaica through the staging of a monthlong summer-camp programme.
CROSS KEYS, Manchester:The Cross Keys community, nestled in the hilly terrains of south Manchester, has many hidden treasures according to Hudlyn Pitter, public relations officer for the Cross Keys Area Development...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Calabash International Literary Festival, which was cancelled after its 10th staging last year, is set to make a return for Jamaica's 50th anniversary celebrations in 2012.Organisers pulled the plug on the event, normally held in...
CHARLES TOWN, Portland: SEVERAL SCHOLARS and academics attended and presented papers at the third annual Charles Town Maroon Convention held recently in Portland. The convention also has the potential to be a huge tourist pull based on the turnout this year. The best so far.
GREENFIELD, Trelawny:Many people around the world recite a prayer asking God's kingdom to come, yet they have little idea of what they are asking for.The Jehovah's Witnesses say they will offer a clear and refreshing approach to the topic at their 2011...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has grudgingly accepted the Government's decision to start paying public-sector workers their outstanding seven per cent increase this fiscal year. However, the IMF has made it clear...
Six months after their two-year-old son disappeared without a trace, baby Ralston's parents are still hopeful of seeing him again. Father Neville Mitchell and mother Danna Emmanuel still regularly look out into the front yard...
Lille, France: While on one knee awaiting the starter's instruction to get into the 'set' position, Odail Todd closed his eyes and whispered a soft prayer. "Lord, please help me to win this race. Please, Lord," he prayed....
WESTERN BUREAU: The cash-strapped St James Parish Council says it is looking at a divestment plan for the operations of the municipal abattoir into private hands; nine years after its closure and a $3.8-million...
The main suspect in the killing of Kingston College student, Khajeel Mais, is believed to be the owner of a Glock 9mm pistol, which preliminary investigations suggest was issued in 2003 at a St Andrew police...
LONDON (AP):The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid yesterday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and become Britain's...
Gleaner scholarship winners (from left, front row) Justine Brooks of New Horizon Preparatory School, Nigel Phillips of the Granville Primary School, Chelsea Wright of Obistan Kinder Prep School and Renica Peart of Middleton Primary show off their...
WESTERN BUREAU: The senior police officer whose home was raided by lawmen yesterday has denied any relationship with the suspect fingered in the killing of 17-year-old Khajeel Mais, sources close to The Gleaner say. Allegations are that the senior police officer...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday announced that the country's new attorney general, Ransford Braham, will take up office on August 8. Braham, who has long been touted to fill the role left vacant after Dorothy Lightbourne was dropped...
WESTERN BUREAU: Well-known Montego Bay building contractor Errol Lamey says the absence of stringent building checks is responsible for the collapse of a section of a two-storey structure in the commercial area of the Second...
THE CROWN yesterday closed its arguments in the murder trial of police Sergeant Lance Webley, who has been off the job for the last 10 years awaiting the outcome of the case. Webley, who is being represented by attorneys-at-law George Soutar and Linda...
Attorneys representing alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have told a United States court that they intend to rely on five Jamaican laws in their attempt to keep him out of an American prison.Attorney-at-law...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has gained a momentum that has seen it drastically reduce the lead which the People's National Party (PNP) holds as the party more Jamaicans would vote for if an election is called today....
Dancehall star Buju Banton has started the second round in his battle for freedom.But it could take up to 18 months before Buju, whose real name is Mark Myrie, knows if he will escape a 10-year prison sentence which was imposed on him by a United States...
Two of the island's leading political analysts, Troy Caine and Tony Myers, are questioning the level of unity inside the People's National Party (PNP) as it prepares to wrest power from the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).Divided by two bruising...
