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

Colin Campbell, the former member of parliament of Eastern St Andrew and government minister who resigned over the Trafigura scandal, has promised to return to Gordon...

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

Saturday evening's launch of 'The Dudus Chronicles', the art exhibition focused on the strongman Christoper Coke, was the climax of a drama which ambushed the plans of a Belizean artist who travelled to Jamaica...

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

The People's National Party (PNP) was last night placed on election alert by its president, Portia Simpson Miller, who suggested that the Sunday Gleaner bombshell, revealing that the Jamaican Government had, in fact, been in bed with a United States law firm...

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

A low turnout of members stalled activities at the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) annual general meeting (AGM) yesterday. Among the key issues scheduled to highlight the PAJ AGM was the election of new officers, along with decisions regarding...

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

THE ST Ann Homecoming and Heritage Committee has this year continued to pay tribute to the parish's son and Jamaica's first national hero, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, whose legacy transcends the borders of Jamaica.The committee...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Persons registering for the Olint meeting at the Jamaica Conference Centre on Monday August 2.Oh God!Oh no! OLINT!Hearts, wallets break as multimillion-dollar hope fizzlesArthur Hall, Senior Staff Reporter In the United States town of Windermere in...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Email correspondence involving Solicitor General Douglas Leys, local attorney Harold Brady, and officials of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips confirms that the United States law firm was working on behalf of the Golding-led Government of Jamaica...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ONE HUNDRED AND TWO days ago, Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Parliament that email correspondence between Solicitor General Douglas Leys and United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips would be made public....

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE MANATT pointmen did not sing jingle bells for Solicitor General Douglas Leys last Christmas, but they appeared to be quite familiar with the Jamaican official."Hope all of you and your families had a wonderful Christmas...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It took a strongly worded letter from The Gleaner's legal counsel to get the Attorney General's Chambers to release its griplike hold on controversial emails exchanged between the solicitor general and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. ...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Come September morning, approximately 260,000 primary-level students are expected to start the new school year. Barring a much-needed intervention, Richard Jamesmay not be one of them.

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has ordered an immediate review of security arrangements at hospitals and health centres under the management of the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA). Responding to last Thursday's robbery at the Bustamante...

Published:Sunday | August 22, 2010 | 12:00 AM

It appears the Government quickly shot down a proposal from Solicitor General Douglas Leys that alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke should be tried in Jamaica...

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The National Parent-Teacher Association of Jamaica has condemned the approach of school administrators who are withholding Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and Caribbean...

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Battle-worn Tredegar Park residents rolled out of their homes on Thursday when Bishop Herro Blair, the political ombudsman, accompanied a team of government officials and agencies through that shell-shocked community.

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Two men were fatally shot while a third was left nursing gunshot wounds during a clash with the police in Pennant, Clarendon, early this morning.According to the police, the two men, who are yet to be identified, were killed in a clash in the...

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Principals from schools across the island are pointing to delays in the delivery of government funding and other factors as they prepare for the new academic year in September.

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Embattled Olint boss David Smith is not likely to face charges from local law- enforcement authorities despite many Jamaicans losing hundreds of millions of dollars in his failed foreign-currency investment scheme.Smith,...

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A GROUP calling itself the Association of Concerned Olint Members (ACOM) says it may bring a class action in the United States as a result of the indictment of Olint boss David Smith.The US this week indicted Smith to stand trial for 23 criminal...

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

What started as a simple dispute in Rosemary Lane, central Kingston, yesterday ended with one man dead and another in hospital with life-threatening wounds.

Published:Saturday | August 21, 2010 | 12:00 AM

"I did it for the people of Tivoli," declared soft-spoken 18-year-old St Hugh's student, Rashae Lewis, who was successful in nine subjects in the CXC Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Key Motors Ltd boss Desmond Panton says he has paid over all duties due to Jamaica Customs, following his arrest and the lock-down of his business. Panton's attorney, Jacqueline Samuels Brown, said yesterday that the monies were paid over after a meeting...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Former Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields has admonished the Government for dragging its feet on proposed DNA legislation to take the fight to criminals. The outspoken British ex-policeman was also caustic in his criticism...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Broadband company Flow has pledged $1 million to the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill (CUMI) for the second staging of the annual 'CUMI Come Run' fund-raiser on October 2. The fund-raising...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Two weeks before the start of the new academic year, the negotiating skills of many parents were on parade in downtown Kingston as they tried to combat the difficulties of financing back-to-school...

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