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Paulwell braces for battle - CARICOM states block Jamaica's bid to remove CET from solar water heaters imported from outside the region

Published:Friday | May 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Jamaicans are paying more for solar water heaters than they need to because CARICOM member states Barbados and St Lucia have repeatedly blocked efforts by the Government to remove the common external tariff (CET) imposed on those items imported from...

Are kids psychologically scarred or just rude?

Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Children who display behavioural problems are often branded as rude, but experts argue that in many instances, this is not the case and that there is, in fact, some underlying psychological problem that the youngsters need help coping with.A mobile...

Search on for suitable site for child, adolescent therapeutic centre

Published:Sunday | May 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna has given the Child Development Agency (CDA) eight weeks to identify a suitable location for the construction of the first therapeutic facility on the island for the treatment of children and adolescents with...

RAPE RAGE! - Assaulted by stepdad at 11, raped by friend at 15, child victim struggles to release anger

Published:Friday | May 8, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Her innocence was stolen when she was only 11 years old. Her childhood ended at 15 years old, when her virginity was stolen and replaced with the burden of motherhood.That is the story of Raquel*, who is now 18 years old and trying to move on with...

Stalked by pedophiles!- Probe reveals teen 'sex slave' had history of sexual abuse

Published:Saturday | May 9, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

The sexually abused teenager who was taken into state care last Tuesday after returning home, having been missing for more than three weeks, with a tale of being abducted and, along with several other girls, forced into prostitution has been...

One man in custody; 14-y-o 'sex-slave' taken in by the State...investigators find inconsistencies in her story

Published:Tuesday | May 5, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

ONE ADULT male has been taken into custody after The Gleaner yesterday broke the story of 14-year-old Shanique, who claimed she was kidnapped, and, along with other girls, forced into prostitution.Preliminary checks by the Centre for Investigation...

Child allegedly locked in house and forced to have sex with men; burned when she refused

Published:Monday | May 4, 2015 | 8:10 PMRyon Jones

After being missing for four weeks, a girl attending a prominent Corporate Area high school tells a chilling tale of being abducted and forced into prostitution, which could give some insight into where some of 4,394 children that have gone missing...

Living with a ‘burning’ fear - Campbell Town tenement yards are 'a disaster waiting to happen'

Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Residents of Campbell Town in central Kingston are living in fear as any day their houses could be transformed into a blazing inferno, trapping them inside,...

BSJ developing plan to ensure Jamaica's ganja is protected; 10% to 15% tax proposed on distributors

Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), which was mandated to design a regulatory plan for the decriminalised ganja industry, has developed a 17-step scientific footprint proposal.According to the BSJ, the new ganja industry, which will be...

Hard to track the rats! - State entities struggle to police illegal wholesales and supermarkets operating islandwide

Published:Friday | May 1, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Several wholesales and shops operating across the island could be doing so in breach of all the rules regarding food handling and storage because the state agency mandated to monitor them just doesn't know that they exist.Operating in the public but...

AMBUSHED at the pumps! ... Hidden charges hit motorists at some gas stations

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Some gas stations on the island have been engaged in the practice of slapping additional charges on customers who do not pay for petrol with cash, and they are doing so without informing the consumers. Motorists who use debit and credit cards at...

Riverton road repair back on track

Published:Thursday | April 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

More than one year after it was first announced that the Government of Jamaica and the Mexican government would collaborate to effect much-needed repairs to the access road to the Riverton City Dump in St Andrew, it seems work is finally to get...

Deadly hunt for scrap metal - Tyres set ablaze exposing hundreds to health risk

Published:Saturday | April 25, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Hundreds of persons living in Riverton City and nearby communities in the Corporate Area have beenbattling smoke nuisance for more than a week as hunters of scrap metal are burning tyres to access the wire inside.Just 13 days ago, a storage area for...

Blame the slackers! - Several entities failing in their duty to keep rotten meat off the streets of downtown Kingston

Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

The responsibility for preventing unfit meat reaching consumers is a shared one with several stakeholders required to play their part, but The Sunday Gleaner has found that many entities are falling down on the job and putting Jamaicans at risk. The...

Dissing the dollar! - Downtown Kingston wholesales reject $1 coins

Published:Thursday | April 16, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Several wholesales in downtown Kingston are rejecting $1 coins as payment for goods, declaring the legal tender unacceptable in their facilities."Go throw them weh; nobody no want them," declared one wholesale operator on East Queen Street when a...

Cops crack down on bars - Central Kingston police to go after rum shops operating without licences

Published:Saturday | April 18, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

"It is my intention to apply for a spirit licence to sell rum, gin, brandy and other distilled spirit at the next court session" is a sign a seen so often at bars, pubs and taverns across the island that many believe it is a necessary part of the...

Toxic blaze near Riverton City dump

Published:Monday | April 13, 2015 | 8:24 PMRyon Jones

Residents of the Corporate Area were given a serious scare yesterday morning, as thick, black smoke was seeing coming from in the vicinity of the Riverton City dump, raising fears that the landfill was ablaze yet again. It, however, turned out to be...

‘It wasn’t me’

Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 7:24 AMRyon Jones

Neither talent, skill nor intention could save Michael Gardine from himself and a life littered with jail time and hard knocks.Having grown up in the tough east Kingston community of McIntyre Villa (Dunkirk), Gardine admitted to running with the...

Scammers turn to medicine! - Conmen filling prescriptions at a fraction of the cost

Published:Friday | April 10, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

A criminal gang operating out of downtown Kingston is offering to fill prescriptions at a fraction of the cost, with the only drawback being that the medications are not done in the name of the person they are prescribed to. A Sunday Gleaner probe...

Ticking Time bomb! - Hundreds of lives at risk as criminals steal gasolene from moving tankers

Published:Thursday | April 2, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Thousands of persons who travel on Marcus Garvey Drive in the Corporate Area on a daily basis face a real danger, as some desperate young men steal petrol from moving tankers in the vicinity of the Petrojam Refinery. The young men can be seen at odd...

Meat madness - Authorities yet to move against downtown Kingston vendors selling rotten meat dumped at Riverton City

Published:Saturday | April 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

Vendors in downtown Kingston continue to sell meat discarded at the Riverton City dump despite a declaration from the authorities that efforts would be made to halt this dangerous practice. When our news team returned to sections of Spanish Town Road...

Guerrilla marketing - LIME furious over Digicel's advertising hijack at Champs

Published:Sunday | March 29, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

The battle for customers in Jamaica between telecommunications rivals Digicel and LIME is at its fiercest, with the latest tactic employed by the former being branded as guerrilla marketing. The accusation, which has made LIME's Vice-President of...

Bunting calls for more vigilance towards our children

Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

National Security Minister Peter Bunting believes most of the blame for the violent deaths of the country's children since the start of the year must be laid at the feet of the families, friends and community members of the young victims and not the...

Meat dumped at Riverton on sale downtown

Published:Saturday | March 28, 2015 | 12:00 AMRyon Jones

For years vendors have been illegally peddling meat openly on the streets of downtown Kingston, but it has come to the attention of The Sunday Gleaner that the practice is even more unhygienic than what meets...

More trouble for Kern - Former junior minister facing possible court action over unpaid furniture bills

Published:Thursday | March 19, 2015 | 11:05 AMRyon Jones

Having spent close to five years in court successfully fighting off charges of money laundering, conspiracy to defraud and breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act, former People's National Party Junior Energy Minister Kern Spencer could soon find...

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