LONDON (AP):The Murdoch media empire unexpectedly killed off the muckraking News of the World tabloid yesterday after a public backlash over the illegal guerrilla tactics it used to expose the rich, the famous and the royal and become Britain's...
Gleaner scholarship winners (from left, front row) Justine Brooks of New Horizon Preparatory School, Nigel Phillips of the Granville Primary School, Chelsea Wright of Obistan Kinder Prep School and Renica Peart of Middleton Primary show off their...
WESTERN BUREAU: The senior police officer whose home was raided by lawmen yesterday has denied any relationship with the suspect fingered in the killing of 17-year-old Khajeel Mais, sources close to The Gleaner say. Allegations are that the senior police officer...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday announced that the country's new attorney general, Ransford Braham, will take up office on August 8. Braham, who has long been touted to fill the role left vacant after Dorothy Lightbourne was dropped...
WESTERN BUREAU: Well-known Montego Bay building contractor Errol Lamey says the absence of stringent building checks is responsible for the collapse of a section of a two-storey structure in the commercial area of the Second...
THE CROWN yesterday closed its arguments in the murder trial of police Sergeant Lance Webley, who has been off the job for the last 10 years awaiting the outcome of the case. Webley, who is being represented by attorneys-at-law George Soutar and Linda...
Attorneys representing alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have told a United States court that they intend to rely on five Jamaican laws in their attempt to keep him out of an American prison.Attorney-at-law...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has gained a momentum that has seen it drastically reduce the lead which the People's National Party (PNP) holds as the party more Jamaicans would vote for if an election is called today....
Dancehall star Buju Banton has started the second round in his battle for freedom.But it could take up to 18 months before Buju, whose real name is Mark Myrie, knows if he will escape a 10-year prison sentence which was imposed on him by a United States...
Two of the island's leading political analysts, Troy Caine and Tony Myers, are questioning the level of unity inside the People's National Party (PNP) as it prepares to wrest power from the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).Divided by two bruising...
The core support of the two major political parties remains strong as the country begins the countdown to the next general election with issues playing little part in the reasons persons would vote for either the People's National Party...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE PAIN remains unbearable. Uncontrollably, her tears flow. Allana Chevannes-Mais is angry, upset and sad by the killing of her youngest child, 17-year-old Khajeel Mais....
THE PERSON who will fill the post of attorney general has been selected and will be named this week, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said."I have already identified the new attorney general.
FLORIDA (AP): A Florida jury has acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her two-year-old daughter Caylee. Anthony showed no reaction when the jury's verdict was read yesterday after more than 10 hours of deliberations....
A BOAT captain faces a possible death penalty for his part in a human-trafficking operation involving Jamaicans, Bahamians and Haitians which ended in tragedy for a pregnant woman and another woman in critical condition.Twenty-five year-old Tarran...
WEST CENTRAL St James Member of Parliament (MP) Clive Mullings has had a change of heart about leaving representational politics.Mullings on Monday said he would be seeking the support of the constituency when the next...
Members of the public sign the 'Declaration for Children 2011' during the New Nation Coalition's Justice for Children rally, held at St William Grant Park, downtown Kingston, last week.
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw is to table in September a supplementary budget in the House of Representatives seeking approval for the payment of outstanding salaries to public-sector workers.Senator Arthur Williams, minister with responsibility...
WESTERN BUREAU: Mental-health experts have dismissed the idea of 'road rage' being a factor in the killing of 17-year-old Khajeel Mais by the owner of a BMW X5 last Friday night in St Andrew. "Let us not sanitise the phrase 'road rage'. ...
Photographs and video recordings in relation to the 6,000 cubic yards of sand which Felicitas Ltd is alleging was removed from its Coral Springs property in Trelawny in 2008 were tendered into evidence yesterday....
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has started to regain lost ground but remains in the doghouse as 52 per cent of Jamaicans have a negative view of it.The Bruce Golding-led party - which continues to be battered over its handling of the extradition request...
The policeman who is accused of being the mastermind behind the theft of several guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the police armoury will know his fate later this month.Yesterday, Supreme Court judge Horace Marsh, after hearing legal...
FOR 10 years Delroy Chuck shadowed the justice ministry when the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) was in Opposition. Prime Minister Bruce Golding noted yesterday that when the government changed in 2007, many persons...
The Ministry of Agriculture has ordered the closure of all citrus nurseries across the island as part of efforts to step up the fight against the dangerous citrus greening disease which has been threatening the almost $4-billion industry.The order came...
JAMAICA HAS asked the United Kingdom to supply certain potential evidential material as law enforcement agents continue the corruption investigations against parliamentarian and former state minister, Joseph...
