In the wake of a United Kingdom Privy Council ruling yesterday that Judge Priya Levers should be removed from the bench in the Cayman Islands for misbehaviour, a call is being made in legal circles for a judicial code of conduct for judges and resident magistrates...
Three months ago Sandra* told The Gleaner she intended to start her sewing business while running a cook shop on the side.She received her certificate of qualification on Wednesday...
Fish sold in the Mandeville Market is safe for human consumption, Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton declared in an address to fish vendors there on Thursday....
Jamaica's recipient of the prestigious Hubert Humphrey Fellowship for 2010, Dr Colette Myrie, has pledged to use the opportunity to expand her knowledge so she can assist in countering the vast increase in chronic diseases affecting the island....
NEWS THAT tertiary-level students could face a staggering 100 per cent increase in tuition fees in the 2011-2012 academic year sent shock waves through a committee meeting in Parliament yesterday and threatens to reverberate across the society....
STUDENTS AT the tertiary level who obtain loans from the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB) and flee overseas to escape servicing those liabilities may, in future, be barred from leaving the country.Currently, there is draft legislation to amend the Students'...
TAXPAYERS may have to fork out US$57 million or approximately J$4.8 billion as exit fees from a currency-swop arrangement. Parliament yesterday approved a loan guarantee to refinance a €204.4-million loan from...
Public-sector workers, worried about their jobs in light of the planned modernisation process, will have to wait until late this year to find out if they will be sent home.
It could be another two to three months before the country even knows how many...
The multibillion-dollar Highway 2000 project is causing fresh headaches for the Bruce Golding administration. The Government's point man for the project, Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry, yesterday...
As part of The Gleaner's focus on agriculture, from day to day we use this weekly column to raise issues from the perspective of products or people in the sector. Today, I am a 13-year-old boy still...
SSchool security beef-up - The education ministry is to review school security islandwide following a deadly attack at a Hanover school on Monday.In a press statement issued yesterday...
The United States wants the Jamaican Government to use a powerful tool in its possession called the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to cripple gang networks in the country.Addressing journalists yesterday at a press...
Two of the most notorious criminal networks operating in the Corporate Area, the Stinger and the Rat Bat gangs, are the focus of the latest curfew imposed by the security forces....
A teenage householder escaped death after a water truck smashed into a house in Top Hill, St Catherine, yesterday, However, the driver, 49-year-old Franklyn Hunter, also from Top Hill, sustained injuries to his head...
THE GOVERNMENT is planning to roll out an ambitious information communication platform aimed at significantly reducing the amount of money the State now pays for telephone calls.Daryl Vaz, the minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime...
The opening of The Captain's Bakery and Grill in Ocho Rios, St Ann, in three weeks' time will see the creation of 70 new jobs in the parish, a move welcomed by new president of the St Ann Chamber of Commerce, Kumar...
A SENIOR member of the Obama administration revealed yesterday that a "series" of extradition requests have been made by the United States government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether local elected officials ...
ONE LOCAL transport operator who has accumulated at least two tickets per day within a two-year period has not been paying the fines. Transport Minister Mike Henry told Parliament yesterday the driver has accumulated more than 1,500 tickets...
A cross-fertilisation of state-of-the-art technology and the ability of Jamaicans to be inventive - as in 'tun yuh han mek fashion' - is taking root at the Christiana Potato Growers' Cooperative in Manchester....
WESTERN BUREAU:The mother of police Corporal Omar St Clever Duncan, who was shot dead by gunmen in Haughton Grove, Hanover, early Tuesday morning, plans to build two libraries in his honour. A grieving Beverley Brown...
The quarrel over the recent failure to extend the state of emergency is getting hotter.After the broadside from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) on Sunday, the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) fired back yesterday with Andrew Holness,...
The full menu of programmes and the entire management structure at NewsTalk 93 FM are now being evaluated after the University of the West Indies (UWI) acquired full control of the radio station...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Reverend Keaven Dixon's last posting on Facebook, the popular social-networking portal, on July 21 was a portent of his own death five days later, even as he warned a friend to consider that he could die at any moment....
Head of the Fellowship Tabernacle church, the Reverend Merrick 'Al' Miller, returns to the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court today to answer charges of perverting the course of justice as well as harbouring a fugitive....
A major thrust by the Ministry of Health to prevent a dengue outbreak in the island is putting an enormous strain on the State's coffers, The Gleaner has learnt. Dr Sheila Campbell-Forrester, Jamaica's chief medical officer...
