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Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Yvonne Gordon and Dorothy Browning were hailed as hard-working, jovial but no-nonsense individuals who served the Ministry of Finance well for a number of years.But those were only a few words rolling off the tongues of...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PORTMORE, St Catherine:SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT James Forbes, commanding officer in charge of the Community Safety and Security Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has issued a strong warning to criminals who prey on communities across...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Travia Smart is elated to be fitted with the 'Burgundy Jacket' by Nigel Coke, communication, public affairs and religious liberty director of the Jamaica Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The criminal violence which has affected Jamaica for decades has again been identified as the primary development challenge facing the country.The World Bank now...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Joan Llewellyn, the woman critically injured by her husband in last Thursday's murderous rampage in Three Hills, St Mary, has been paralysed from the waist down, one of her sisters revealed yesterday. Valerie Brown said her...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

NINE MONTHS after the social-partnership talks involving the Government, Opposition, private sector and unions stalled, the administration is indicating that it is ready to go back to the table. The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica and the Jamaica Chamber...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has served notice she will be heading to the Supreme Court to have a subpoena for her to appear as a defence witness in the Cuban light-bulb trial set aside....

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Excited residents of Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday witnessed the first set of Jamaica Railway Corporation (JRC) coaches roll into the Old Capital ahead of this weekend's test run for a return to the passenger train system."I never believe sey...

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HIGH-PROFILE officials in the education system have criticised teaching strategies in many Jamaican early-childhood, primary and high schools as counter-productive to optimal learning among boys.

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The drive to promote improved public oral health care got a major boost on Tuesday with the donation of 25 state-of-the-art dental chairs with a combined value of US$135,375 (J$12 million) to the Ministry of Health by Food For The Poor....

Published:Wednesday | April 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Xavier Brown, Jemarc Walters and Adrian Brown of Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory all beamed with pride yesterday as they boasted about their academic achievements, which reflect a solid start for their future goals....

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has called for the Government and Opposition, "as a matter of urgent and vital importance", to open dialogue concerning the fuel tax regime and its role within the broader tax system.

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE BRUCE Golding administration yesterday rolled back the rate of ad valorem tax on fuel at the eleventh hour from 15 per cent to 10 per cent, effective Thursday, in an apparent bid to ward off national protests. Following a marathon meeting of Cabinet....

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Three men from August Town, St Andrew, who shot and killed a man in July 2004, have been convicted of murder.Omar Blake, Omar Dunkley, and Jason Coley were found guilty yesterday of the murder of Michael Curtis and will be sentenced on Friday by Senior...

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday reserved judgment on an application for her to bar Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn from a section of the Kern Spencer trial.Pusey will make a ruling today, but this is contingent...

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Western Bureau: A meeting has been scheduled for the Ministry of Education today to discuss strategies to address the emerging trend of students committing suicide.A release yesterday stated that Education Minister Andrew Holness has directed ...

Published:Tuesday | April 12, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Spouses and children are paying a heavy price as members of the security forces appear to be wilting under the pressure of policing Jamaica's crime-riddled and angry society. Three women who called The Gleaner yesterday saying they were wives of policemen....

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

We can't recall the last time legislators, especially those in the Lower House, used a fine-tooth comb to examine a bill that has been put before them.Indeed, this column has criticised legislators for blindly passing bills...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A policeman was injured and two women arrested as mourners and lawmen clashed during yesterday's burial, at Dovecot Memorial Gardens in St Catherine, of alleged Clansman gang member Rohan 'Jay Jay' Jennings.One of the women, 40-year-old domestic helper...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

NEARLY TWO years after senior opposition lawmaker K.D. Knight rejected the Sullivan v New York Times principle as a suitable guide for Jamaica's libel laws, the Queen's Counsel is now carefully rethinking his position...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Minister of Water and Housing Dr Horace Chang has dismissed claims by human-rights lobbyists that there has been an increase in abuses by the security forces.Last week, in a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jamaicans for Justice...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SOLDIERS OF Christ army were preparing themselves for a peace march in Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday when the police called it to a halt. The Spanish Town Ministers' Fraternal, the organiser of the event, was hoping...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Amid threats by the People's National Party (PNP) to take protest action in pressing the Government to address spiking fuel costs, the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) yesterday revealed that Cabinet would be designing...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Members of the public are being asked to visit the offices of the Flying Squad to identify items of jewellery that have been seized in a number of police raids, particularly in the Corporate Area."Persons wishing to identify jewellery at the Flying...

Published:Monday | April 11, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Western Bureau: Three child suicides within a week in western Jamaica have left communities devastated and, according to child and family therapist Dr Beverley Scott, this is too much for children thinking this is their only...

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