PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding's attempt to sue United States network ABC for having referred to him as "a known criminal affiliate" of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke hit a major snag on Monday, when the US Senate voted to protect its journalists from judgments...
More than 600 people are to get direct employment while hundreds more will benefit indirectly as the Windalco bauxite plant resumes full operation in Ewarton, St Catherine. Approximately 500 people are already working at the plant...
Hours before the state of emergency ended yesterday, the police finally caught up with one of Jamaica's most wanted men. Ricardo Wynter, better known on the streets as 'Government', or just 'Gov', to his friends and cronies...
The Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) has backed the tough anti-crime measures announced by the security forces yesterday, but bemoaned the collapse of the state of emergency."We know that the state of emergency could not have been a long-term...
Farmers in St Elizabeth will soon have a first-class packaging plant as construction continues apace at Hounslow in the southwest region of the parish's agricultural belt.
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington pledged yesterday that gains would not be eroded as the police keep up their assault on criminality across the island."Let me assure the public that we will use every lawful means...
Commuters in St Ann and downtown Kingston gave their views on the question: Do you think the Government and Opposition could have struck a deal in Parliament regarding an extension of the state of emergency...
CRIMINAL SUSPECTS have been warned not to view the cessation of a state of emergency as temptation to reimpose mayhem in communities. "I want to warn them that if they return to the street and start back their criminal activities...
A seven-member jury deliberated for more than three hours yesterday before convicting businesswoman Althea Morgan-Carr and bar operator Stephen Smith, both of May Pen, Clarendon, of conspiracy to murder police Inspector...
COMMISSIONER of Police Owen Ellington has shut out queries as to whether powerful persons will soon be jailed for their roles in organised crime. His rebuff came amid concern that the much-vaunted assault...
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) Area One Division has launched its mobile police station as a means to improve relations with residents of St James.The mobile unit, which is part of the JCF's...
WESTERN BUREAU: Senator Warren Newby has promised to propose to Cabinet that the Government give tax breaks to teachers who volunteer with the Scout Association of Jamaica and similar organisations. Newby made the announcement...
The Government and trade unions representing public-sector employees have agreed on measures designed to end the almost constant bickering that has marred the industrial relations scene over the past two years...
FOR AN entire academic year, Ackime Thomas, now 14, woke up at 3:30 each morning in order to cover the stop-start two-hour trip (over 22 miles) from Buff Bay...
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on National Security Peter Bunting has charged that his Government counterpart, Dwight Nelson, received a request from the security forces for an extension to the current state of emergency from...
LESS THAN three years after it was established, the unit which administers the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) could cease operating on its own.The Public Sector Master Rationalisation Plan recommends that the CDF be merged with the Jamaica Social...
Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Patrick Harris has been ordered by the Tax Court to pay $1.6 million immediately or be sent to prison for 30 days. The order was made yesterday by Resident Magistrate Sheron Barnes in the Tax Court at Falmouth...
LEIGHTON 'LIVITY' Coke, the brother of deposed Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, has been slapped with gun-related charges.The Police High Command reported yesterday evening that Livity was charged with shooting with intent, illegal...
THE GOVERNMENT has avoided the option of imposing a new state of public emergency, opting instead for the roll-out of a comprehensive crime-management plan. The commissioner of police and the chief of defence staff will today outline aspects...
Attorney-at-law Bert Samuels has welcomed news that the state of emergency will not be extended. Samuels has repeatedly raised concern about the possible abuse of Jamaicans during the state of emergency, referring to the Jamaica Constabulary Force Act...
The Patricia Sinclair McCalla-led modernisation team wants the management of juvenile correctional centres to be privatised. If the proposal is accepted by the Government, it would mean that the State would only be responsible for housing the juveniles...
THREE ALLEGED members of the feared One Order gang and two alleged lieutenants of the equally notorious Clansman gang, which both operate out of Spanish Town, the St Catherine capital, are among six persons charged yesterday after being detained under...
A PROMINENT attorney has raised concerns that the police have used a two-month state of emergency to amass thousands of fingerprints obtained from detainees. This comes in response to speculation raised by lawyers representing detainees that the police...
SEVERAL OF the island's top private-sector leaders yesterday flayed the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) for its failure to support the request for the extension of the state of emergency. Among the critics was...
