Published:Wednesday | February 17, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The teenager who pleaded guilty last month to the murder of 11-year-old Aamir Dwight Scott of Sandside, St Mary, was yesterday sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment."He got what he deserved," Scott's mother, Andrea Folkes,...
HE WAS a man who often used the maxim, 'The show must go on'.Today, many Jamaicans and persons across the Caribbean will pause to bid farewell to cultural giant, master historian and educator, Professor Rex Nettleford...
At 2:30 yesterday afternoon, followers of the Jamaica Gleaner on the micro blogging website, Twitter, got a particularly important update about another chapter in the life of the storied newspaper.It read: To our Twitter followers, we are pleased...
WHILE DECLARING its intention to maintain pressure on the Govern-ment to consider its bid for the national airline, the Air Jamaica Staff Acquisition Team has revealed it is considering starting up a new airline operation.This 'Plan B', however, depends...
THE GOVERNMENT has stated its intention to advance the legislative agenda of the House of Representatives before the 2009-2010 term ends on March 17."Parliament will make its best attempt to complete 12 government matters and 44 private members' motions...
THE TRIAL of 39-year-old labourer Michael McLean, who is charged with the brutal murder of six members of a family in Duhaney Pen, St Thomas, has been set for on July 7.The trial date was set yesterday when McLean appeared...
SHARP darts are being hurled at National Security Minister Dwight Nelson in response to his weekend outburst against last week's High Court decision to grant bail...
A TEENAGE Haitian boy who was picked up by the Portland police last Friday night is still being held at the Port Antonio station guardroom in the parish. Sixteen-year-old Jean St Homme, who was given a clean bill of health...
Chairman of the Jamaica Association of Young Professionals, Junior Rose, is calling for the introduction of an "affirmative action" policy which would require companies in the island to have a minimum percentage of their workforce aged 20-29....
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Smokers in Trinidad and Tobago will soon be stripped of their right to light up in public as they wish as a new law that seeks to curb the practice is to take effect this week.In a release issued on the weekend, the health...
"Help me to treasure my enemies, for they alone can help me see my faults. Help me to honour those who love me and never turn away from the ones who need me the most." These were the words from a prayer written by Patti-Ann Lothian, whose family and friends...
Today marks the last day on which mourners will be able to sign condolence books dedicated to late cultural icon, Professor Rex Nettleford. One more of these books was added on Friday in the western end of the island - at Cornwall College in St James -...
Executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority, Joan Gordon-Webley, yesterday told The Gleaner/Power 106 newsroom that the fire and smoke nuisance at the Riverton landfill in Kingston should be under control before the city wakes up to start its workweek today...
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of cases of gastro-enteritis across the island.Dr Karen Lewis-Bell, director of family-health services in the Ministry of Health, told The Gleaner that the hike in the number...
A dengue epidemic is threatening to hit St Mary with the parish's health department detecting a breeding level of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the disease, that is almost four times the accepted level set by the World Health Organisation...
Struck by the suffering caused by the earthquake which destroyed Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, one month ago, students at the Immaculate Conception High School and St George's College raised $500,000 which has been donated to the relief effort...
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson is furious that the court has granted bail to three of four members of a group of suspected kidnappers accused of abducting a prominent St Ann businessman. A clearly furious Nelson told The Gleaner yesterday that he has discussed...
The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) will commemorate the life of its founder and late artistic director, Professor Rex Nettleford, with an evening of movement, music and tribute at the Little Theatre on Tom Redcam Avenue in Kingston on...
AN ALARMING number of juvenile offenders being held in adult lock-ups for indefinite periods has prompted a full-scale investigation by the Office of the Children's Advocate (OCA) into the infringement of their basic...
Public Defender Earl Witter says his office, by law, must investigate any matter relating to the incarceration of children.Blaming the plight of jailed youngsters on the failure of parents and Government,...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has good enough reasons to support the Cybercrimes Bill after a recent incident left him holding thousands of US dollars in credit-card debt.
