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Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

More Jamaicans could soon get the chance to visit Uncle Sam as the United States Department of State has promised to press for a review of that country's visa policy on Jamaica in order to pump up the number...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

IN THE wake of a threat from the People's National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) to march on Jamaica House, the police yesterday warned the public that there could be consequences if marches and public processions were to be conducted....

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Aubrey Blair, vice-president - finance and corporate affairs at the National Health Fund (NHF), has been appointed chief executive officer of the agency, effective August 16.Blair is slated to assume the new duties for a period...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The leadership of an umbrella church group is to examine documents provided by Prime Minister Bruce Golding during a marathon meeting yesterday, before announcing their response to the latest revelations in the Manatt...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A CLERICAL worker employed to the Ministry of Justice has been suspended from her post after the disappearance of more than $797,000 from the Drug Court Rehabilitation Programme.The suspension of the employee is linked to the investigation...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Almost a year since it was first announced in Parliament by Prime Minister Bruce Golding that a section of Highway 2000 was to be renamed in honour of double Olympic and World Championship gold medalist and world record holder Usain Bolt...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has expressed dissatisfaction with the Govern-ment's response to the latest disclosures on the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (MPP) matter.

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

MORE THAN 36 hours after a Sunday Gleaner exposé on emails involving officials of the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Solicitor General Douglas Leys and local...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Water supply for the new school year will not be a problem for Jamaican schools, the National Water Commission (NWC) says.The new school year is slated to start on September 6.Director of communications for the NWC, Charles Buchanan, told The Gleaner...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) has reserved, until further notice, its ruling on the Jamaica Teachers' Association's (JTA) long-standing wage row with the Government. Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles had...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The three employees who were fired in April last year by Contractor General Greg Christie, for allegedly withholding critical information, are pursuing the issue in the Court of Appeal.They are appealing against a Supreme...

Published:Wednesday | August 25, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Double sprint world-record holder Usain Bolt might be earning close to US$10 million (J$846 million) per year through his new four-year deal with German sports lifestyle brand PUMA, The Gleaner has learnt. Bolt and PUMA...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday as an umbrella group representing a wide cross-section of Church leaders requested a meeting with him to discuss Sunday's bombshell email...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE RELATIONSHIP between the nation and Prime Minister Bruce Golding has been described by one university lecturer as a marriage gone sour. Dr Christine Cummings, lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Dear Mrs Walker-Huntington, I am a US citizen and have been in the country since 1967. My son - now 49 - has a green card and has been here since he was 12 years old...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Civic leaders from western Jamaica have expressed shock over revelations that Prime Minister Bruce Golding was complicit in the hiring of US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the United...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Dear Mr Bassie: I am a Jamaican and was recruited by an agency as a servant to work in a diplomat's residence in London.

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Local attorney Harold Brady, who featured prominently in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips muddle, has resurfaced in Contractor General Greg Christie's probe into the Trafigura affair....

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The following are selected excerpts from the emails related to Solicitor General Douglas Leys, attorney-at-law Harold Brady and officials of the US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips....

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Contractor General Greg Christie is recommending that criminal charges be laid against former People's National Party (PNP) government minister Colin Campbell, in what could be a major setback in his desire to return...

Published:Tuesday | August 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Dear Mrs Ffolkes-Abrahams: I am a 32-year-old male who is currently being filed for to migrate to the US and need some advice.I was charged with destruction of property for breaking a glass door.

Published:Monday | August 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Investigators at the Ewarton Police Station in St Catherine are still trying to figure out the circumstances which led to the shooting death of one of their colleagues moments before midday on Saturday. Special Constable...

Published:Monday | August 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

No sour faces were spotted at LIME's 'Skool Aid' back-to-school fair at the Jamworld Centre in Portmore on the weekend.Jamworld evoked memories of Coney Park, with thousands of youngsters, 300 coming from as far as western...

Published:Monday | August 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

New traffic arrangements will come into effect along the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 in St Catherine this Friday, as the authorities seek to ease congestion during the morning and evening peak hours.Operations and maintenance manager at Jamaica...

Published:Monday | August 23, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Special Corporal Jermaine Cummings' Island Special Constabulary Force batchmates of 1998, along with the ISCF Association, were among the mourners who paid tribute to their...

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