Demands board act against protesting Balaclava teachersKeisha Hill, Gleaner WriterEducation Minister Andrew Holness says the recent demonstration by teachers at the Balaclava High School in North East St Elizabeth has brought the profession into...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has snubbed calls from the parliamentary Opposition and the contractor general to halt the sale of the Sandals Whitehouse hotel.Golding also declared his Government would be pressing along...
AT LEAST 1,400 employees and 200 pensioners of the National Water Commission (NWC) have racked up $8.5 million in unpaid water bills, despite receiving the first 9,000 gallons of water free of cost...
BISHOP DEREK Webley, who is of Jamaican parentage, created history two years ago when he became the first African-Caribbean chairman of a police authority in the United Kingdom....
Attorneys for the Reverend Al Miller are seeking to have the presiding judge recuse herself from his trial for assisting accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.Miller, the head of Fellowship Tabernacle church, is on trial in the Corporate Area...
The man who once headed the Jamaican police most-wanted list and who investigators had linked to several murders, Christopher 'Dog Paw' Linton, has been charged.But the charges do not relate to any of the many murders which he had been accused of before...
THE MANCHESTER Parish Executive of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) says it will be seeking advice from the court on the current handling of the audit done on Porus High School, which is headed by former JTA president Michael Stewart....
Days before he faces retrial in a United States court, dancehall star Buju Banton has been dealt a severe blow.United States District Judge James Moody Jr has dismissed a motion filed by lawyers representing Buju, whose...
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:THE VISION Learning and Remedial Centre, which was on the brink of closure last year because of unpaid rent, has been given a new lease on life after receiving assistance from RBTT Bank...
Vendors in the Jubilee Market are accusing the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) of cruelty over its decision to order them out of the facility. The angry vendors say the KSAC has given them nowhere to go despite ...
A senior prosecutor is claiming that Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne, prior to her 10-month refusal to sign an extradition request for accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, had signed at least one...
ST ANN'S BAY, St Ann: FORMER MAYOR of St Ann's Bay Ivan Anderson has vowed to once again lead the St Ann Parish Council, after walking free from the St Ann's Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.Anderson was reacting after judge...
Everald Warmington, the fiery government member of parliament (MP), couldbe the next person forced to leavethe House of Representatives in the long-standing battle over dual citizenship. The Gleaner was yesterday able to examine documentation proving Warmington....
The two women who were found in the company of alleged gang leader Christopher 'Dog Paw' Linton were released yesterday after the police were unable to find evidence they had been willfully harbouring the wanted man.Twenty-three-year-old Krystle Brown...
THE MAN long believed to be the area leader of the tough central Kingston community known as Tel Aviv, Donovan 'Pepsi' Ainsworth, is moving to dispel claims that he is a 'don'."I Donovan Ainsworth, otherwise known as 'Pepsi' or 'Calla Danks', write this...
Good day, I seek information on migrating to Canada. Currently, and for some time now, there is a wave of information on migration to Canada. Also, suddenly, everyone is a consultant or an expert on Canadian migration...
Dear Mr Bassie, I visit the United Kingdom (UK) regularly and I have a question.Why is it necessary to be fingerprinted when entering after all of the biometric information that I supplied when I applied to obtain a visa?...
Portland and Trelawny remained murder-free up to Sunday, as the police reported a continuing decline in the number of persons killed across the island.Latest figures show 87 people killed in the first 30 days of this year, down from 128 in the...
Mrs Walker-Huntington, Good Morning.I have a question and would really appreciate if you could shed a little clarification on the matter for me, please. I am planning a change of status from a worker (H1-B) to a Permanent Resident pretty soon.
Noted attorney Frank Phipps yesterday charged that four mystery documents cited in the Dudus-Manatt commission of enquiry were being used to trample on the constitutional rights of Jamaicans. The documents form a package of classified memoranda of understanding...
A Supreme Court judge has made a special call for an amendment to the Registration of Titles Act to prevent squatters from taking possession of registered lands through the owners' inadvertence.Justice Ingrid Mangatal made...
Describing it as "quite a hefty sum", Opposition Spokesman on Mining and Energy Phillip Paulwell has questioned the terms of reference which led the Government to be paying US$105,000 (or approximately J$8,9250,000) to an overseas consultant for its...
DESPITE funding being a major problem in the country's health sector, administrators at the St Ann's Bay Hospital have allowed close to $2 million to sit idle in an account for two decades.An advertisement published in The Gleaner on Saturday...
A MATHEMATICS expo has been the latest initiative by administrators of Ensom City Primary School in St Catherine to boost students' performance in the subject. The brainchild of outgoing principal Stanley Jones, the event showcased several human...
