A.J. NICHOLSON says he is deeply hurt by the suggestion of a column published in this newspaper that he is standing in the way of the Charter of Rights. The article, written by The Gavel, was published on Monday...
Attorney-at-law Conrad Powell has been found guilty, in the May Pen Resident Magistrate's Court, on corruption charges and of attempting to pervert the course of justice. The 38-year-old attorney from St Elizabeth...
WESTERN BUREAU: One week after welcoming the world's largest ship, the historic Falmouth Port docked two major megaliners concurrently yesterday, carrying some 10,000 passengers....
Things have begun to heat up at the National Stadium with three records broken on yesterday's second day of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships....
The Government has agreed to relax the rules surrounding the tinting of windows, and windshields on public-passenger vehicles.At present, it is illegal for taxis and buses to operate with tint on their windows and the police have been enforcing the law...
WITH DAYS to go before the start of the 2011 Population and Housing Census that will cost the Government $1.4 billion, the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) is reporting that there are not enough census takers to carry out data-collection...
The presentation of evidence to the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry is nearing the end and already several private-sector leaders who clamoured for the hearing are arguing it was worth it. This is in sharp contrast to assertions by a majority of Jamaicans...
On another day of blistering crosstalk and biting accusations at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, a bristling Bruce Golding refused to respond to attorney K.D. Knight late in the afternoon, even as the People's National Party lawyer demanded...
A joint select committee of Parliament has recommended that the Official Secrets Act be repealed.The committee, chaired by Daryl Vaz, minister with responsibility for information, said the 1911 Official Secrets Act...
Seven young men are now the better for an experience they believe will forever change their lives. Thanks to the determination of a school, church, community and their families...
THE MINISTRY of Labour and Social Security has collaborated with the Regis-trar General's Department (RGD) in a community initiative to deliver birth certificates to residents of west Kingston.In a release on Tuesday, the ministry indicated that 100...
A legal battle is now brewing between attorney-at-law Hugh Wildman, the trustee in bankruptcy and liquidator of Cash Plus Limited, and the former co-interim receiver-managers of the collapsed alternative investment scheme...
The Board of Lascelles DeMercado yesterday announced that William McConnell, group managing director, and Anthony Bell, group finance director, have retired from the company.The retirement of both men will take effect on June 30, 2011....
Police commanders have indicated that they have significantly disrupted some of the country's deadliest criminal gangs ahead of today's March 31 deadline set by their boss, Police Commissioner Owen Ellington....
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has warned that the movement towards the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) risks being retarded by actions of member countries of CARICOM.Golding, who was speaking in the House...
The Jamaica Conference Centre erupted into a shouting frenzy in the midst of another verbal clash between Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Senator K.D. Knight, the attorney representing the People's National Party, at yesterday's sitting of the Manatt-Dudus commission...
The Cabinet has mandated state agencies to have the planned juvenile remand centre at Metcalfe Street in Denham Town, Kingston, up and running by tomorrow.Yesterday when a Gleaner team visited...
Landowners across the island are being reminded that property-tax payments for fiscal year 2011-2012 are due tomorrow and may be made in full, half-yearly or quarterly instalments.In a release yesterday, the Tax Administration Department said...
CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie on Tuesday cleared a former official at the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) and three companies of conspiring to defraud the SCJ.Prime Minister Bruce Golding had submitted documents to the Office of the Contractor General...
Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry will take a passenger train out for a test run next month as part of his plan to resume rail service in Jamaica. This will come almost 20 years after the last passenger train ran in the island.....
Vere Technical's Sabina Allen has inked her name in the history books after capturing the first gold medal at the 101st staging of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships at the National Stadium...
United States law-enforcement authorities have indicated that they are conducting background checks on Noel Strachan, the head of the failed investment scheme World Wise Partners, and have sought the assistance...
ORACABESSA, St Mary: RESPECT, LOYALTY and being my brother's keeper are slowly giving up their seats within some educational institutions and making way for their rivals violence, indiscipline and gangsterism. However, the Safe...
A rickety, old stone building at the corner of North Street and Text Lane in central Kingston is on the verge of collapse and could lead to a major disaster with loss of life.
But there is no immediate plan to tear down the two-storey building...
IMAGINE AN old lady who has difficulty communicating in English and has to interact with officers of the state at a public hospital. These officers, however, communicate in English, not Creole, as in the case with the old lady....
