AN ELDERLY woman gave Annette Howard a high five upon realising the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) driver was the person who took injured passengers to hospital when AA flight 331 crashed.
RESPONDING TO a story published in yesterday's Gleaner, the legal team of Prestley Bingham said the Minister of Justice, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, exercised the overriding authority expressly reserved to her by extradition law to protect citizens...
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dwight Nelson has repeated his plan to create a civilian force to assist the police.Last May, in his first address after being appointed to head the security ministry, Nelson argued that a reserve force was a possible solution...
After being bombarded with criticisms about its tardiness in signing an extradition warrant for Tivoli Gardens' strongman, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Government is again embroiled in a major extradition controversy with the United States government...
WESTERN BUREAU: A 23-year-old security guard has been detained in connection with the murder of former honorary British consul to Jamaica, John Terry.The Gleaner understands that the suspect was arrested while he was at work at the Sangster International...
With less than three months left in this fiscal year, some members of parliament (MP) are yet to apply for the full allocation of the money budgeted to them under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Each MP has been allocated $20 million under ...
Additional activities to be undertaken by the Jamaica Defence Force are expected to figure prominently in the Government's latest strategy to break the back of gang-related violence to be unveiled today. ...
Chairman of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry, Justice Boyd Carey, who has come under fire in recent days, yesterday morning hit out at The Gleaner for an editorial which called for the abandonment of the commission ...
MORE THAN a decade of talks on flexible work arrangements are nearing conclusion with a joint select committee of Parliament completing its final meeting yesterday at Gordon House.Committee members combed through a draft report...
Imagine walking miles up the most rugged of hills in Haiti in search of food only to get there too late. But the situation is far worse if your entire family went to bed hungry the night before and appeared set for a second such night without food....
THE POLICE have uncovered a scheme in which indigenous trees in one of the nation's forest reserves are being cut down and the lumber sold to high-end furniture market overseas for millions of dollars. So far, no arrests have been made...
WITH INCREASING preparations under way for an expected wave of people from the earthquake-wrecked Haiti, the Jamaican Government is looking to international donors for the millions of dollars it expects to spend to house and care ...
Eleven suspected kidnappers are behind bars and investigators say they are making significant headway in the case of the prominent Manchester businessman whose son was kidnapped last year.Among the 11 are eight...
The entire 13 members of the cashier section of the Newport East branch of the Customs Department were transferred with immediate effect yesterday, as the tough-talking Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker responded to whispers that all was not well there...
Ricardo Walters, a Jamaican who arrived in Haiti on January 5, said by the time he left he felt like his liver had moved. Haiti, to date, has had more than 40 aftershocks since the big earthquake last Tuesday. ...
THE TWO men who were convicted on December 18 last year of the murder of elderly Manchester couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, showed no signs of emotion yesterday when they were given the death penalty.They are Lennox Swaby,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): A POWERFUL aftershock sent Haitians screaming into the streets yesterday, collapsing buildings, cracking roads and adding to the trauma of a nation stunned by an apocalyptic quake eight days ago.....
The People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) yesterday veered away from its customary towing of party lines to launch a broadside on its parent organisation.In an uncharacteristically strongly worded...
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has accepted an invitation to be CARICOM's representative on a coordinating committee established to organise an international conference to flesh out a strategic plan for Haiti's reconstruction...
The Parliamentary Opposition was yesterday left with egg on its face after a noisy sitting of the House of Representatives. Its parliamentary leader, Derrick Kellier, told the House that the Opposition was not ready to participate in the debate on the new economic....
Minister of Education Andrew Holness has said that a revamping of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) is currently ongoing, and the ministry has already identified ways in which it wants to steer the high-school entrance examination....
Another earthquake shook the Caribbean yesterday morning. Exactly a week after a 7.0 seismic monster devastated Haiti leaving thousands confirmed dead and thousands more feared dead, the Cayman Islands was rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake...
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: I stumbled upon Maggie Smith Forbes in an unfinished section of the Hpital de la Communauté Haïtienne. She was smoking a cigarette and staring into space. But that changed when she realised she was not alone....
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: At the end of their first day in Haiti, Jamaican medical practitioners said they did not feel as if they did much because there was more surgery required than anything else. There were at least 20 medics and three of them were surgeons....
Finance Minister Audley Shaw is not backing down from his defence of the Government's decision to spend $80 million on the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) Commission of Enquiry, even as more questions are asked ...
