The 2010-2011 Budget Debate made a humorous return to the political campaign ahead of the 2007 general election with Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller telling Parliament that she is bracing for a call from 'Farmer Joe'. "I am expecting that he will...
More than 50,000 Jamaicans lost their jobs last year and it is not clear how many of this number are looking to find new employment or have given up on the labour market. The latest data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) indicate that...
IF THE corpses of the 463 people murdered in Jamaica in the past 104 days were lined up head to toe, they would stretch for nearly the entire length of the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston.
Eighteen Jamaicans, including two women, were extradited last year, even as the Bruce Golding administration tussled with the United States government over its extradition request for west Kingston strongman Christopher...
An earthquake rocked sections of Kingston, as well as Portmore, St Catherine, yesterday around 3:51 p.m. The earthquake, with its epicentre located near Chestervale, St Andrew, had a magnitude of 3.7 and a focal depth of 9.9 km...
DETERMINED TO battle the turbulent tides of the global economic environment, Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett yesterday boldly forecast a six per cent growth in tourist arrivals this fiscal year, after trumpeting a 3.6 per cent spike in visitor arrivals...
Senior Puisne Judge Gloria Smith has turned down an application to quash the indictment charging Corporal Lancelot Webley with the murder of a person unknown.Webley was first charged with the murder of John Spencer.
BUSINESSMAN AND politician Patrick Roberts has been charged with breaching the Firearms Act. Roberts, who is the People's National Party (PNP) caretaker for West Central St Andrew, was yesterday charged by the Hunts...
Western Bureau: Holders of United States visas living in western Jamaica will soon no longer have to travel to the embassy in Kingston to have their visas renewed.Head of American Citizens Services at the United States...
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey will rule tomorrow on whether the trial against former Junior Government Minister Kern Spencer and Coleen Wright should continue. Spencer's defence attorney, Patrick Atkinson...
JUST MORE than 3,000 deportees were sent back to Jamaica last year, with the vast majority heading to the parishes where crime is most rampant.Kingston, St Andrew, St James, St Catherine and Clarendon - which accounted for the majority of the 1,680...
The Police Federation will be taking its grouse to Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson and Labour Minister Pearnel Charles. A Gleaner investigation revealed...
President of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller, and Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson will spearhead the launch of a peace initiative in six affiliate communities within the PNP's Region Three next Sunday....
A policeman whose murder case has been dragging on for more than nine years is seeking a court order to quash a new indictment served on him this week.Senior Puisne Judge Gloria Smith heard lengthy submissions yesterday from...
THE PARLIAMENTARY opposition is questioning the National Insurance Fund (NIF) board's participation in the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX).Dr Omar Davies, the opposition spokesman on finance, said there was a "serious legal question as to whether ...
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey will be hearing submissions from the defence team today to determine whether Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn should reveal notes she allegedly took during a meeting between her and...
While the police have been kept busy implementing strategies to address the escalating crime rate, statistics have revealed that the country's murder total has jumped to 461 since January.Among the latest victims...
Jamaica has managed to make huge strides over the years in achieving high immunisation rates, which have contributed to a steady decline in childhood diseases....
BOTH PRIME Minister Bruce Golding and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller are aware of the widespread perception that Jamaican politicians are linked to gangs and criminals and are, therefore, complicit in the criminality that has contributed to...
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Finance Dr Omar Davies is cautioning the Government against setting up what he claims are unrealistic fiscal targets and has stopped just short of advising the administration to prepare for mass protests if a tax package is announced this year....
Rodney Chin yesterday denied he had known that charges against him would be dropped when he became a star witness for the prosecution in the latest instalment of the Cuban light-bulb trial.Chin, who was being cross-examined by Patrick Atkinson...
Noted peace activist Horace Levy has sought to clarify his position on graffiti in Western Kingston attacking the People's National Party's (PNP) Dr Peter Phillips. The graffiti grabbed public attention on the weekend as they were sprayed in both Jamaica...
FOR EVERY 100 Jamaican marriages, there were almost nine divorces in 2009, a year in which the nation experienced the highest rate of wedding bliss gone amiss...
The parliamentary Opposition is today expected to attack the budgetary plans of the Government when its Finance Spokesman Dr Omar Davies responds to the $503-billion package presented in Parliament last week....
