A major shortage of some basic equipment is causing a massive backlog in cases at the ballistics unit within the Police Forensic Lab. This has led to delays in the investigations of thousands of cases. According to acting head of the ballistics unit...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding, the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), and his general secretary, Karl Samuda, have survived to renew battle, following a bruising showdown on Wednesday. But it appears that the fate of Harold Brady...
The police have cracked an international human-trafficking ring believed to be operating from an upscale St Andrew neighbourhood. The Organised Crime Investi-gation Division (OCID), which is leading the probe, said 13 persons, including a man and a woman...
The member of parliament for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson, will be ousted effective today. Robinson's lawyers yesterday announced at the pretrial review in the Supreme Court that she was no longer opposing the election petition....
The Alpha Boys' School in Kingston, noted for producing several of Jamaica's finest and famous musicians, is to receive a well-needed facelift to the tune of $12 million. The project, which is scheduled to begin early next month...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding visited Tivoli Gardens in his West Kingston constituency yesterday to hand over cheques to residents whose homes were damaged during May's battle between security forces and gunmen in the community....
Preparations for the arrival of the first cruise ship in the north-coast town of Falmouth, Trelawny, have kicked into high gear, raising expectations among stakeholders of an economic revival for the parish....
Although it was implemented to assist women who were deported with socialisation and other welfare issues, the Female Prisoners Welfare Project (FPWP) in Jamaica has helped more children than actual women since...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Glowing smiles and delighted responses marked the reactions of the individuals honoured at the 2010-2011 LASCO Teacher and Principal of the Year awards ceremony, held at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Harold Brady, the attorney who has been hurled unceremoniously into another bout of controversy in relation to the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips mess, has struck back at Prime Minister Bruce Golding. Brady confirmed late yesterday that his attorneys ...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Senior members of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) huddled for hours yesterday as the aftershocks of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair continued to jolt the country. From early yesterday morning, JLP officials were indicating...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Shahine Robinson, the member of parliament (MP) for North East St Ann, has been asked to respond to documents filed in the Supreme Court as to whether she is in fact an American citizen.The documents are an alien registration card and a naturalisation...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Jamaican police investigators are probing the reported wealth of 129 high-ranking gangsters as they continue their push to disrupt the activities of criminal gangs. Deputy Commissioner of Police Glenmore Hinds...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW BERT Samuels has suggested that an admission by permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Donovan Stanberry, that he made a "genuine mistake" in furnishing false information to Contractor General Greg Christie...
Published:Thursday | September 16, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Water Square, the economic epicentre of the north-coast town of Falmouth, Trelawny, is buzzing with activities on a muggy Friday afternoon. Bus operators near the western end of the square hustle to get a full load...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
International United States (US) journalist Richard Prince has called for the Official Secrets Act to be repealed. Prince, a respected columnist at the Maynard Institute of Journalism Education, based in California, pointed to concerns already raised locally...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Hotelier Kevin Hendrickson has signed an agreement to purchase 59 per cent of the shares held by National Hotels and Properties Ltd (NHP) in Pegasus Hotels of Jamaica Ltd (PHJL).Hendrickson will purchase 71,865,384 ordinary stocks units from NHP...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: Police in Montego Bay, St James believe men involved in the infamous lottery scam are now diversifying their operations."I have no doubt that these same persons who are soliciting money through the lottery scam...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Joyce Anderson, principal of Moore Town Basic School in Portland is appealing for help to restore electricity, and water supply to that institution. The school is also plagued by a shortage of other resources, explained...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
National Health Fund (NHF) chief executive officer Hugh Lawson may be forced to stay home for the remaining months of the year because the already-stretched Auditor General's Department may not be able to conduct...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the people of Treasure Beach, in St Elizabeth, through their community consciousness, have made the area a major tourist destination."The growth of this community, the extent to which its name has gone abroad and has...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Clinical social worker, Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown, will release a new publication, Children in the Line of Fire, exploring the impact of violence on families in Jamaica and the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago....
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Attorney-at-law Harold Brady is refusing to fade quietly into the background, despite claims by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that he is to be blamed for the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips muddle. Yesterday, Golding faced journalists at Jamaica House..
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A CABINET minister, a permanent secretary and a government consultant have been accused by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) of breaching the perjury law.This was revealed in the OCG's special report...
Published:Wednesday | September 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
After more than two years of facing a safety hazard, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has unanimously passed a resolution approving $2.5 million to conduct urgent repairs to drains in the community of Molynes Gardens, St Andrew....
