K.D. Knight, the attorney for the People's National Party (PNP), issued a stern warning late yesterday that he would not be distracted by the shenanigans of lawyers representing the Government and the Jamaica Labour Party, as the eagerly anticipated showdown...
Minister of Justice and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne yesterday characterised as most unusual the extradition request for accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke."I have never seen another extradition...
Many Jamaicans, it seems, are unphased by the collapse of alternative investment schemes three years ago and the fact that they took billions of investors' continued interest in these schemes and an obvious disregard for warnings by the regulator....
CONCERNED THAT some early-childhood practitioners are without the requisite qualifications, the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has embarked on a strategy to train educators. Of the 8,181 early-childhood practitioners...
The Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) has confirmed a Gleaner report that it is on the verge of completing standard specifications for the importation of used tyres. Responding to the furore which has developed since The Gleaner first reported...
The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has hired a team of lawyers to fight the suit filed by police Corporal Malica Reid challenging the legality of his arrest. INDECOM boss Terrence Williams would not release...
A threat by Education Minister Andrew Holness Thursday to compel schools administrators to complete critical incident report forms created to record major infractions in schools has been met with a terse response from the Jamaica Teachers' Association...
THE EARLY Childhood Commission (ECC) is reporting success with the implementation and streamlining of its early-childhood education programme. The early-childhood care and education programme is delivered through a network of more than 3,000 institutions...
WESTERN BUREAU: Seven-year-old Renique Harris of Kingston may never walk in her lifetime.But, standing in a frame that locks her knees, while her little feet meet the ground is enough hope for her mom, Nicola Gordon....
The Senate on Friday passed the Jamaica International Financial Services Authority Act, which is aimed at helping to create the environment to promote Jamaica as an offshore...
The Pechon Street terminal is sparsely populated with just a few students sheltering under its zinc roof. Seventeen-year-old Jake Dacosta is one of them, but he certainly stands out among his peers...
A Jamaican couple has filed a lawsuit against the self-styled baby-friendly public hospital, Princess Margaret, in St Thomas, for allegedly terminating the wife's four-month pregnancy without warning in late January.
DESPITE SEVERAL promises to remove children illegally kept in filthy adult lock-ups, the Government of Jamaica continues to break the law. At the end of last month, some 113 children were jailed, awaiting court hearing.
Corporal Malica Reid, who was arrested and charged last month by investigators from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), is seeking several declarations and orders from the Judicial Review Court.
Both the 110 fire service and the 119 police emergency phonelines have had to deal with the overwhelming issue of prank calls over the years, which is taxing these systems set...
United States authorities have given the 7,270.42 metric tonnes of sugar sent from Jamaica in January a passing grade for its polarisation (the measurement of sucrose content), but has penalised the Sugar Industry Authority (SIA) for three other quality infractions that were detected during tests on the shipment.
WESTERN BUREAU:Since Jamaica finalised negotiations on seven new air services agreements in 2010 and renegotiated three others, open-skies business with Canadian carriers to the island has flourished."Jamaica has seen...
THE OLD adage "what is joke to you is death to me" is proving increasingly true to Jamaica's emergency and essential services, with thousands of prank calls each week sending scores of personnel on wild goose chases. The financial cost are heavy.
Accents of the United States variety are commonplace on the Windward Road premises, adjacent to Bellevue Hospital, which houses the Open Arms drop-in shelter for the homeless, a night shelter, and the...
Brian Lynch wants a bicycle helmet to put a lid on what has easily been the worst period of his 39 years.He plans to don the helmet and ride the red bicycle, which is now in his room at Maureen's Place, Windward Road, St...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding exuded confidence yesterday as he addressed a high-level Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) meeting of councillors and caretakers at the Jamaica Conference Centre,...
It happened almost 10 years ago, but Kamesha Russell remembers the horror of losing her baby at the Princess Margaret Hospital on the same day she gave birth like it was yesterday.
Police in Manchester have killed reputed criminal Donovan Topping, also known as 'Don Topping'.Topping was shot dead around 1 o'clock at a house in an area called Lime Tree Lane near Newport, south of Mandeville.It is alleged that he had been hiding out...
