A teenage Haitian girl of Jamaican parentage, stranded in Haiti for more than two weeks, is to be flown to Jamaica this morning. Fifteen-year-old Paula Sabrina Brown was located by a team from the Jamaica Defence Force...
Hoping to stave off a potential collapse of the used-car industry, the association, which represents its interests, is beseeching the Government to add a year to the age limit of cars it can import. President of the Used Car Dealers' Association...
Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Rex Nettleford, has been admitted to hospital in Washington, DC, after collapsing at a hotel in the United States capital Wednesday evening...
Five Haitians came ashore at Stewart Town in St Mary yesterday. Superintendent in charge of the parish, Dudley Scott, could not initially confirm the story and had said shortly after 3:30 p.m. yesterday a man was picked up in the parish after reports...
WORLD-RENOWNED botanist, 89-year-old Dr George Proctor, and his driver, 43-year-old Glenmore Fillington, were convicted yesterday by a seven-member jury of conspiracy to murder Proctor's wife and three other women....
WESTERN BUREAU: Multi-Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds will be the major drawing card when the 17th staging of the much-anticipated Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival moves into its new home - the spacious and exquisitely decorated Trelawny ...
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw yesterday reported a 91 per cent take-up of the $701-billion Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) bond offer, ahead of the 90 per cent take-up of the $701-billion Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) bond offer, ahead of the 90 per cent target...
THE GRANDMOTHER of a teenaged girl, who is stranded near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, is appealing for help to get her granddaughter to Jamaica. Fifteen-year-old Paula Sabrina Brown, a Haitian national of Jamaican parentage...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE DEPRECIATION of the Jamaican dollar could become a windfall for bargain-hunting British holidaymakers, says research just released by the Post Office.Britain remains the country's third-largest...
THE BRUCE Golding administration has less than 48 hours to finalise plans to deal with Air Jamaica or risk a further delay in its proposal to ink a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.25 billion stand-by arrangement by next...
IT WAS quite disturbing to see Jamaican health workers removing stones, sticks and other foreign materials from wounds that had been poorly dressed by health workers from other countries. But, in the midst of Haiti's plight, there was the occasional reason...
Auditor General Pamela Monroe-Ellis has cited gross extravagance in the expenditure of the National Health Fund (NHF), with its management openly flouting public-sector guidelines to purchase first-class plane tickets...
Career cop Owen Ellington has been selected Jamaica's 27th commissioner of police. Ellington, who has been acting as the police commissioner since late last year, has been given the nod by the Police Service Commission...
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Finance Dr Omar Davies yesterday warned that the Government could be setting up the country for failure if it made unrealistic assumptions in order to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) preconditionalities...
Lawyers representing dancehall star Buju Banton, real name Mark Myrie, have filed a motion in court demanding the naming of the confidential source who is a key part of the case against the Jamaican. The lawyers are using an entrapment defence as they try to get Buju freed...
A small stretch of road going off into the distance where people gather in front of 'White Man Shop' chatting. Dogs bark in tune with an electric razor going off in the distance. Despite these signs of life moving along, the Killancholy district is still mourning the deaths ....
Jamaica should hear the good news, today, that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved its request for a US$1.25-billion standby arrangement. This should open the doors for the country to get a further US$1.1 billion in loans from multilateral...
Cleveland Ellington is firmly set in his belief that his brother, Owen, would make a great commissioner of police. Growing up, the acting commissioner was a caring person, Cleveland told The Gleaner. "It is not all about his interests...
AT 3:30 Monday morning when the first sign of light appeared, my heart rejoiced: sweet Jamaica, here returneth your son!After one week in the earthquake-flattened Port-au-Prince, and having experienced personal disasters in the country...
DESPITE A public statement on the reason the Jamaican Government has denied an extradition request from St James businessman, Presley Bingham, the United States (US) Government is still waiting on answers. While the US awaits the extradition ...
THE ASSOCIATION of FINSAC'd Entrepreneurs has called the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry relevant, saying the exercise would help to reveal the circumstances of the financial crash of the 1990s...
Jamaica has moved quickly to heal the hurt in our northeastern neighbour, Haiti, which was devastated by a seismic monster more than two weeks ago. Find out what else you can do to help the earthquake victims and read gripping stories...
FIREWORKS ARE expected in Parliament today as the debate on the Government's economic policy heats up. The debate actually startedlast week, but the economic measures were pushed to the back burner as the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) failed to participate...
CLOSE TO 900 pieces of lumber with a street value of nearly $5 million were seized on the weekend by police investigators who have widened their probe of a lumber racket uncovered last week.Speaking to The Gleaner yesterday, Assistant Commandant Calvin...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): THE COLLAPSE of much of Haiti's capital has a large part of the nation struggling just to find a place to sleep. As many as one million people, one person in nine across the entire country, need to find new shelter...
