FOR THE second time in the history of Jamaica's bicameral legislature, a woman has been installed as speaker of the House of Representatives.Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, a first-term Jamaica Labour Party member of parliament for Trelawny South...
WESTERN BUREAU:Administrators of the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) are concerned about the unavailability of funds to service the huge demand for social intervention initiatives in volatile communities across...
NEWLY APPOINTED speaker of the House of Representatives, Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, has urged her parliamentary colleagues to observe the Standing Orders of Parliament, even in the face of rigorous debate....
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw is to chair a House committee on tax measures which has been tasked with examining a Green Paper on taxation that has been tabled in the House of Representatives.Prime Minister Bruce...
We have noted the attempt by Mr Daryl Vaz, and others, to impute improper motive on the part of The Gleaner for the fact that we did not publish statements allegedly made by Dr Peter Phillips to American diplomats in Jamaica and revealed in the United...
In order to effectively transform inner-city communities and greatly reduce the crime rate, the Jamaica Constabulary Force, through its community policing programme, realises it has to target ...
At least 300 former and current members of the police force are now being sought by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) after failing to renew their private firearm licences for several years....
After just over one year in an American prison, alleged Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke begins his fight for freedom in earnest today when he appears in a New York court to attempt to convince a judge to throw out the wiretap evidence against him....
Police have charged Sheldon Watson, 36, and Carlos Batista, 42, with the murder of Roderick 'Bunny' Francis.Both men were charged yesterday morning.Investigations are ongoing.Francis, CEO of B&D Trawling...
WEEKS AFTER People's National Party attorney at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, K.D.Knight, lost his mother, a fellow Comrade Patrick Atkinson, has met a similar fate...
WESTERN BUREAU: Lawyers are preparing for the interrogation of the main suspect in the killing of Khajeel Mais even as the initial autopsy could not determine the cause of death.The suspect arrived on the island...
DEFENCE ATTORNEY Patrick Atkinson has called for the police to use the manner in which they have been releasing information about the killing of Kingston College student Khajeel Mais as a template for how they should...
THE JAMAICA Association for the Deaf (JAD) and the Organisation of American States, National Conference on Bilingual Deaf Education, came to a close with a number of proposals put forward on how to implement and properly monitor the use of the Plus...
An American immigration attorney is among members of the international community who have reacted to a Sunday Gleaner report featuring a Jamaican man who was deported from the United States two weeks ago under...
Member of Parliament (MP) Fitz Jackson has asked Contractor General Greg Christie to conduct a special audit of two projects in his St Catherine South constituency, which were approved under the Constituency...
Jamaica's Fedrick Dacres recently made history by winning gold in the discus competition at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Lille, France, throwing a world-leading 67.05 metres for the victory...
WESTERN BUREAU: President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, Evelyn Smith, has come out in defence of all-inclusive hotel operations after a recent World Bank report that sees enclave tourism as a poor contributor to the economy."At the same...
CHRISTOPHER READ, managing director of Jamaica Air Shuttle Limited, yesterday announced that the airline will add a third weekly flight between Jamaica and Haiti effective August 3.The flight, which will operate on Wednesdays, provides direct access...
Moshe Sermoneta, Israel's ambassador to Jamaica, says his country is interested in helping Jamaica solve its energy crisis. Sermoneta also said Jamaica's agriculture and tourism could benefit from closer relations...
New Justice Minister Delroy Chuck is meeting with key stakeholders in the judicial system to hear some of the challenges facing the sector.Chuck, who took office last Tuesday, has already met with Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn...
Lawyers representing alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have urged a United States (US) court to declare illegal the two controversial memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed by Jamaica's former National Security Minister Dr Peter Phillips....
The Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) newest candidate for the next general election is Spanish Town Mayor Dr Andrew Wheatley. Wheatley, polling 306 of 345 delegate votes, yesterday defeated Dr Sandra Nesbeth...
The Jamaica Association for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities is calling for greater consideration of the needs of members of the disabled community in mitigation planning for instances of natural disaster....
The Municipality of Portmore has recently signed on to an agreement with the United Nations (UN) to seek out measures to bolster its infrastructure against natural disasters. Portmore mayor, Keith Hinds, said the agreement...
During her five-and-a-half-year tenure as Mexican ambassador to Jamaica, Leonora Rueda has seen three governors general and an equal number of prime ministers in office.Rueda, who arrived in the island in January 2006....
