MEMBER OF Parliament for North East St Ann Shahine Robinson is appealing the $15.3 million in legal costs she has been ordered to pay in the dual-citizenship case against her.She is asking the Court of Appeal to reduce the amount on the grounds that it...
THE TRIAL of the four policemen charged with the murder of a Grants Pen Road resident continued yesterday with a prosecution witness denying that he told the police that he saw one of the policemen shoot the deceased.Jermaine Edie said his statement was...
A HIGH-RANKING member of the judiciary has weighed in on the widening debate over the labelling of parliamentarians as the 'Gangs of Gordon House', charging that this approach is counterproductive.President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Seymour...
WASHINGTON, CMC:AN INFLUENTIAL think tank says that Jamaica's economic and social progress has suffered considerably from the burden of unsustainable debt, and that even after the debt restructuring with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this...
CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie says his office has encountered "certain obstacles" in its quest to obtain information on the controversial Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP).Under the programme, the China Export-Import Bank provided a...
BROMLEY, St Mary:A BRIDGE, even a Bailey bridge to replace the Westmoreland Bridge, which was destroyed in heavy rains some five years ago, is all the people of Bromley, Coffee Piece...
PUBLIC DEFENDER Earl Witter yesterday signalled that he would be willing to intervene in the incident involving the dismissal of a woman days before she was set to graduate from the Jamaica Police Academy.
BROMLEY, St Mary: MILLICENT ANDERSON has time on her hands these days, a far cry from when she was kept busy operating the grocery and bar strategically located at the Bromley Square in St Mary, across from the postal...
in St BessPHOTOs BY ANDRE GORDONA noxious substance floating on the waters of the Black River Spa.Judith Sommer Wasted treasuresWasted Treasures in St BessAndré GordonGleaner WriterBLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth:THE BLACK River Mineral Spa stands tall in the...
FACED WITH the burdensome costs of increasing oil prices on the global market, the parliamentary Opposition is recommending the establishment of a national council on energy....
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller yesterday resumed where the spokesman on the public service, Natalie Neita-Headley, left off, urging the Government to treat public-sector workers with greater sensitivity.Simpson Miller, speaking in the 2011-2012...
OPPOSITION LEADER Portia Simpson Miller has argued that the reduction of interest rates on loans provided by the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) announced last week by the Government could be...
AN ASPIRING woman police was denied the opportunity of graduating from the Jamaica Police Academy (JPA) because she is pregnant. The woman was served with a dismissal letter one day before graduation last Friday after she informed her superiors of her status....
WESTERN BUREAU: IT WAS school as usual at the Glendevon Primary and Junior High School, as no special function was held to honour the teachers but some students obliged with cards and poems and tokens of appreciation....
WESTERN BUREAU: Two of the island's leading hoteliers - Sandals Resorts International's Gordon 'Butch' Stewart and SuperClubs' John Issa - are calling for better accountability and more transparency in the collection...
Three students of Seaforth High School in St Thomas, who are accused of repeatedly stomping on a teacher, were yesterday taken into police custody pending further investigation.The St Thomas police said another student, who is believed...
OPPOSITION LEADER Portia Simpson Miller says the Budget rolled out by Finance Minister Audley Shaw is devoid of "heart and soul", as it presented the administration's fantasies but did not embrace the country's realities. "This Budget has no heart; this Budget...
In renewing the Opposition's call for the capping of the ad valorem tax on fuel, and the rollback of the GCT on electricity bills, Portia Simpson Miller, the leader of the opposition, yesterday demanded that 50 per cent of the special consumption tax...
Another group of Cuban nurses has joined the Jamaican health sector. The nurses, who arrived in the island yesterday, will be dispatched in the four health regions across the island to serve for two years....
GREIG SMITH, former employee of the Child Development Agency (CDA), has been appointed registrar of the Office of the Children's Registry (OCR).The OCR announced the appointment on Wednesday...
ONE SENIOR parliamentarian is suggesting that the political parties whose members sit in Gordon House as legislators have earned the designation as gangs because of how "they treat each other"....
THE YOUTH Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) programme is seeking additional volunteers to mentor youth in eight troubled communities throughout Kingston.Some 345 persons have signed up to help mentor young people...
