Supporters of the People's National Party (PNP) in North East St Ann are expected to gather at the party's constituency office in St Ann's Bay this morning in anticipation of the arrival of the party's motorcade on its...
On the day Rupert Murdoch, chairman and CEO of News Corp, testified before a United Kingdom House committee about the scandal rocking his multibillion-dollar media empire, senior journalists in Jamaica yesterday gave their opinion on...
LONDON (AP):Scotland Yard's assistant commissioner resigned yesterday, a day after his boss also quit, and fresh investigations of possible police wrongdoing were launched in the phone-hacking scandal that has spread from Rupert Murdoch's media empire...
MINISTER with responsibility for information Daryl Vaz has urged the local media to be fair to politicians, saying their jobs should not make them fair game for unethical journalism.
"A politician should not be defamed, maligned, and stereotyped...
The father of national 110m hurdles record holder, Dwight Thomas, was killed at his home in St Catherine yesterday. According to the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), 62-year-old Ashton Thomas was chopped and shot to death by unknown assailants...
Dan Meridor, Israel's deputy prime minister and minister of intelligence and atomic energy, was in Jamaica on a one-day visit to meet with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and a number of government ministers to discuss ways to strengthen ties between both countries....
As the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) intensifies its probe into the whereabouts of 174 unlicensed firearms, a retired senior police officer has been included in a list to be sent to Police Commissioner Owen Ellington for him to take the appropriate action....
Political analysts accused of being hostile towards the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) say they are not fazed by the stance of Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional arm of the party, against them and the media...
Q. I have a 28-year-old sister who was once was engaged to the father of her two children.
It has been a long relationship but I don't see the sense for her to be in it...
Q. My 17-year-old son maxed out my credit cards on junk online. His grandmother says that I am to forgive him and move on. This is not the first time that he is giving trouble with money concerns. His father is not in the picture....
NEWLY APPOINTED Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Dr Christopher Tufton has responded to deafening calls from various sectors for a shutdown of the scrap-metal industry by instituting a temporary ban....
OCHO RIOS, St Ann: The 130 principals attending the 23rd Biennial Conference of the Caribbean Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (CAPSS) at the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios are expected to emerge Friday...
The Early Childhood Commission has reported that only 547 of more than 1,700 early-childhood institutions inspected have been issued permits to operate.In its 2009 to 2010 annual report tabled in Parliament last week, the commission pointed...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has dismissed reports that he had considered appointing Queen's Counsel Hugh Small as attorney general before settling on Ransford Braham. "Contrary to an assertion...
WESTERN BUREAU: Air Jamaica is to resume service to Chicago from Montego Bay in November. The Lovebird will also be flying to Orlando, Florida, via Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and Kingston, Jamaica.Robert Corbie, acting...
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of the Area One, Denver Frater, says the police in that division will be working to ensure that motorists observe the road traffic law. "When compared to last year, the number of fatalities since the start of this year...
Joan Llewellyn, the sole survivor of April's chilling gun attack which left her daughter, parents and brother dead, and who was left paralysed by a bullet from her estranged husband's gun, is lifting frail hands in thanksgiving, celebrating the ability...
Relatives of deceased Police Corporal Wayne Llewellyn, seeking benefits payable when an officer dies in the line of duty, are unlikely to gain from his death in April when he committed suicide after murdering four of his estranged wife's relatives....
Despite her organisation's acceptance of the Government's seven per cent wage proposal to public-sector workers, Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ) President Anthonette Patterson is declaring she will not be entering an era...
Children played among the burnt-out rubble, seemingly unmindful of the grief etched on the faces of parents who sat in a cluster contemplating their next move. The scene was Tulip and Chestnut lanes in Denham Town, Kingston, yesterday where fire ravaged several dwellings...
In May of this year, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen officially launched the I Believe Initiative (IBI), aimed at inspiring persons to believe in and actualise their full potential, as well as contribute to the building of a prosperous, progressive...
When attorney-at-law Harold Brady filed his lawsuit against Bruce Golding in late September 2010 in the midst of the Manatt-Dudus legal/political wrangle, the prime minister drew for the prestigious law firm Livingston, Alexander & Levy to mount his defence.
Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Prime Minister Bruce Golding, was reportedly floored last Monday night by a salvo of charges and allegations against him by a former loyalist at the weekly meeting of the party's Standing Committee, even as other members made no effort to intervene.
CRIMINALS IN Jamaica have ruthlessly murdered more than 1,500 children and teenagers since the turn of the 21st century. The number of child/teen killings between 2001 and 2010 could have easily doubled, as statistics published by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) show that 1,600 more were gunshot victims.
