PORT ANTONIO, Portland: THE MUSGRAVE Market in Port Antonio is now closed to the public to facilitate a major clean-up operation of its stalls, sanitary convenience, and drainage system. Deputy superintendent of the Portland...
LLUiDAS VALE, St Catherine: THE NORTH St Catherine Rotary Club has once again extended a helping hand to the House of Praise Basic School in Lluidas Vale. Patrick Harris, president of the club, recently presented a desk to principal, Norma Thompson...
The Police High Command has been left baffled by the mysterious disappearance of Nicholas Nesbeth, the trusted lieutenant of gang leader Christopher 'Dog Paw' Linton, from the maximum-security police complex at Mobile Reserve, St Andrew....
THE UMBRELLA organisation, which represents the interests of small businesses, says the sector faces dark days if authorities press on with plans to peg the award of some government contracts to...
Only 52 minutes after the start of yesterday's proceedings, the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry came to a halt at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston. A package of highly classified memoranda...
Before the days of Pac Man and the Internet, stamp collecting was one of a teenager's great passions. Joseph M. Mahfood knows that only too well. The 69-year-old Mahfood has been collecting stamps since he was nine years old.
After four years as deputy managing director, Christopher Barnes moves into the top job at The Gleaner Company come February 1. Oliver Clarke, The Gleaner Company's managing director, yesterday announced that he was stepping down on January 31...
WESTERN BUREAU: Shoddy workmanship is being blamed for an incident in which an aircraft was delayed because of a sunken section of the taxiway at the new J$398-million Ian Fleming International Airport...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalised for a second straight day yesterday for what his office described as routine tests but which drew concern over the health of the 92-year-old...
Well-known land developer Mark Kerr-Jarrett is optimistic that the information, communication technology and business processes outsourcing (ICT/BPO) industry is one of the most promising sectors for spurring job creation...
The 2011 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival gets into its big three days - Thursday, Friday and Saturday - of an extended festival at the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium this afternoon.
A war of words has exploded over the methods being employed by Contractor General Greg Christie.Information Minister Daryl Vaz fired the first salvo yesterday when he expressed fresh concerns about what he described as the sensational approach of Christie...
A meeting held yesterday between parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture, Senator Warren Newby, and several youth leaders has been described as cordial by one of its attendants.The youth leader, who requested anonymity...
A jury has found four men guilty on one count of murder for the 2006 massacre in which four members of one family were killed and three others injured in the volatile community of Granville, St James.The four, Alroy Shaw, Ricardo 'Stickman' Taylor, Rick...
CHRISTIANA, Manchester: DAYS AFTER three-year-old Charlene Sappleton of Brontie district, Christiana, was burnt to death in her home, residents are still angry over the incident which, they say, could have been prevented....
The Government could soon expand the use of polygraph testing to weed out corruption in the public sector.National Security Minister Dwight Nelson yesterday announced that similar to the police, officials in the...
EXPRESSIONS OF indignation were written on the faces of some lawmakers yesterday after they were rebuked sharply by Political Ombudsman Bishop Herro Blair in a letter to House Speaker Delroy Chuck.One vociferous...
It is a combination of new school electronics and old-fashioned friendship that almost visibly adjoins Anthony Drummonds, Stefan Watson and Vincent Taylor, proving that it does not have always have to be out with the old and in with the new...
For the second time in less than a month, residents of South Side in central Kingston are livid over the fatal shooting of an alleged gangster by the police in the community.....
Jamaican EXPATRIATEs helping their countrymen at home is the ultimate goal of Dr Trevor Dixon, a Jamaica-born emergency physician at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey, United States....
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, whose Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) promised in 2006 to repeal the Official Secrets Act, has declared the legislation will be struck from the nation's law books before Independence Day next year. Golding, who yesterday claimed...
A top-level team of officials from the West Midlands Police Authority, and other high-ranking police personnel from the United Kingdom, are leaving nothing to chance when Birmingham, a city in the West Midlands county of England, hosts top Jamaican athletes...
Forewarned that an internal dispute in the notorious Clansman gang could erupt into a bloodbath, the security forces yesterday blanketed sections of Spanish Town, St Catherine. But that was not enough to stop the killers from striking again...
The Ministry of Finance and the Public Service says government workers who experienced a delay in the payment of their monthly salaries yesterday will be paid today.Senator Arthur Williams, state minister in the Ministry of Finance...
A shooting case against 29-year-old Rameish Simpson, of White Horses, St Thomas, has been dismissed in the Gun Court because the complainant cannot be located.This is the second time within a year that Simpson has been freed...
