The May 2010 west Kingston incursion took a psychological toll on residents of the area, members of the security forces and even media personnel who covered the mayhem.
Dr Karl Blythe has rejected claims that he was being spiteful in his criticisms of the economic policies of his former People's National Party (PNP) colleagues because his recent attempts to regain a position in the party had been rejected.
THE NINE-monthlong face-off between Kingston and Washington over the extradition request for alleged drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke triggered speculation within the United States government that garrison dons and criminals might have captured the Golding administration.
It was business as usual throughout most of the Corporate Area yesterday as Jamaicans largely ignored the world-ending predictions of American 'evangelist' Harold Camping.There were fair-size crowds in the business districts in downtown Kingston and in...
According to the biblical prophet, Isaiah, during a time of great judgement there will be a severe shortage of men leaving little option but for one man to take on multiple wives.
BOUNDBROOK, Portland:HIS PASSION and belief of being independent are the motivating factor behind the success of Dave Green, whose business of selling fruits to students and other residents has earned him the respect of...
EVER SINCE 1838, we have just gone round and round in circles and the only reason why we have not exploded as a society is that from time to time, they put a little sugar in the same old tired wine and pour it into a new flask...
BUNKERS HILL, Trelawny:IN EXISTENCE for 38 years, once reaching the prestigious premier league - a feat accomplished by larger, highly structured clubs - Invaders of Bunkers Hill in Trelawny have much to celebrate and much...
AS JAMAICA waited on May 21 to roll around, possibly bringing with it the ending of the world as predicted by US Evangelist Harold Camping, several countries had entered May 21 with no news of a widespread rapture or calamitous earthquakes.
GOVERNMENT SENATOR Aundré Franklin has admitted under cross-examination that when he was a teacher at the New Day All-Age and Junior High School he was charged with injuring...
SEEKING TO stamp out the widespread practice of police personnel disrespecting members of the public, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has put a new policy...
THE POLICE High Command has reminded members of the force who are issued with rifles and sub-machine guns to avoid taking them into crowded areas such as schools, businesses and places of entertainment.
SUPREME COURT Judge Donald McIntosh said yesterday that Senator Aundré Franklin came close to being locked up based on remarks he had made in court on Wednesday.
JUNIOR MINISTER for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte says she does not want this year's Jamaica Diaspora Convention to be a talk shop.
SEVERAL CLOSE relatives of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke are scheduled to be interviewed by the Kingston Western police today after they were listed as persons of interest late yesterday.
Farmer Glenville Witter points to ravages of insects which now plague his crops, given the inability to afford the necessary chemicals to protect them.
'Media, watch what unnu a report about the boss or a unnu we a go turn the gun dem pon next," declared a scowling young man who was reportedly seen minutes before on Sunday, May 23, 2010 manning a roadblock with an AK-47 rifle in his hands...
SAVE FOR a grave being dug to accommodate the remains of a departed Bedwardite, no major preparations have been taking place in August Town, St Andrew, for the afterlife.Doomsday preachers have predicted that tomorrow will be Judgement Day...
Sex offenders are now using social networks to lure their victims, Facebook and Twitter being the most popular. Deputy Superintendent of Police Gloria Davis Simpson, head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA)...
NEW YORK (AP)Over the objections of prosecutors, a judge agreed yesterday to free former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn from jail on $1-million bail on the condition he be confined to a New York apartment under armed...
One year ago, the streets of downtown Kingston were overrun with hundreds of demonstrators, mainly women clad in white, sending a message to the authorities, "Leave the President (Christopher 'Dudus' Coke) alone."...
Jamaicans are showing interest in having a truth commission established in the island to deal with past human-rights violations.A survey conducted by the Truth and Justice Action Group, organised by the Jamaica Council of Churches, indicated that 65 per...
