Lead Stories

The Government and the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have celebrated the stunning achievements of Team Xormis, which recently emerged champions of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interoperability Competition...

A call has been made for a comprehensive reform of the collateral framework, in order to allow micro, small and medium-size businesses, especially those in non-traditional and emerging markets, to access more...

THE ISLAND'S registered nurses should have a definitive statement from Government, in two weeks, on when the State will proceed with their reclassification.The Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ) has been putting pressure...

THE GOVERNMENT has moved into damage-control mode as it attempts to minimise the fallout from its decision to fire Lenice Barnett, the long-serving executive director of the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB). Barnett's 14-year...

THE NEW Bail Act came under sharp scrutiny yesterday when Supreme Court judge Courtney Daye granted bail to Detective Sergeant Lloyd Kelly, who is charged with murder in the controversial shooting of a man in Buckfield...

Former People's National Party (PNP) activist Gary Foster has found himself at the centre of a major political gaffe in the United States, through no fault of his own.A case of mistaken identity by a US Republican congressional candidate...

HE HAS been a humble and hard-working farmer for the past 32 years, tilling the soil in the rural community of McKenzie district, St Ann, where he cultivates mostly ground provisions and vegetables...

The Reverend Glen Archer, the spell master who for more than two decades has achieved unpa-ralleled success in The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee, was rushed to hospital yesterday after suffering from chest pains.

The attorneys for a Jamaican man named by a United States publication as the person who led American prosecutors to alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke are adamant that their client was never an informant for the United States government.

After filing for my family and myself under the skilled-worker programme, we were given a six-month immigrant visa to Canada which we used on December 26, 2009. At the time, I was already enrolled in an 18-month accounting course in Jamaica and, therefore, we only spent three weeks in Canada.

My brother (principal applicant) is scheduled for his immigrant visa interview next month, based on his mother's (a US citizen) petition for him. Assuming he receives approval next month and departs for the US in December 2010, along with his young daughters (derived beneficiaries) once he receives his Green Card, can he travel outside the US for less than one month and return to the States without any issues?

The irregular thudding of hammers on iron and wood, as three workmen repair a stall made of pallets and 'two be four', greets The Gleaner at the end of a road, beside the Portmore Mall in St Catherine. The bare frames of unoccupied stalls in the otherwise empty lot speaks to much busier times than The Gleaner's mid-week visit.