There is more concern emerging about the constitutionality of three of the six anti-crime bills recently approved by both houses of Parliament.Public Defender Earl Witter has added his voice to human-rights groups...
THE ST THOMAS police say the holding of circuit court in Kingston has been placing tremendous strain on its resources.Superintendent Mervin McNab told The Gleaner yesterday that men and vehicles, which would have otherwise been carrying out patrols...
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Ltd (JUTC) is seeking to assure the public that, while the level of tinting on some of its newer buses is darker than on others, all the tints are in keeping with the international ISO standard 35-38 per cent...
The police, as well as the heads of the umbrella private sector organisations, have expressed surprise at extortion claims being made by some members of the downtown business...
THE MANATT, Phelps & Phillips saga has been brought back to life with news surfacing yesterday, by way of United States publication AM Law Daily, that the law firm was paid an additional US$15,000 by local...
Jamaica's coffee sector got a major boost yesterday with the signing of a historic agreement which Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of agriculture and fisheries, is hailing as a significant step forward for the industry.The country is to send 7,000...
Local customs officials have decided that charges are to be brought against the operators of fishing vessel Abbey, which was detained more than two months ago.Customs officials yesterday confirmed that a decision was made...
Tivoli Gardens residents are rushing to take up the offer from the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) to regularise their electricity supply.For years, hundreds of residents of Tivoli have failed to pay for the service. But with the recent moves ...
A SWEET $11-billion boost is in the offing for the local sugar industry, which could see local farmers receiving Chinese support as they seek to maximise their output.Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton told Parliament yesterday that Cabinet...
EXECUTIVES FROM the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) yesterday admitted that the agency accumulated interest payments to taxpayers amounting to more than $170 million, a revelation that triggered a sharp rebuke...
THE MINISTRY of Agriculture and Fisheries has pledged to plant 2,000 hectares (nearly 5,000 acres) of rice, expanding on the growth in the industry which has already seen plots developed in Westmoreland, St Elizabeth, Clarendon and St Catherine. ...
The Government could be facing compensation claims totalling millions of dollars as a result of the late May incursion in the west Kingston community of Tivoli Gardens.The Office of the Public Defender has already...
LONDON (AP): Britain's sports minister offered yesterday to try and help resolve the tax issues that have caused Olympic champion Usain Bolt to withdraw from next month's Crystal Palace Diamond League meeting.Bolt announced on Monday he would not be...
THE YEAR 1965 stands as Jamaica's biggest in sugar production to date, when 506,000 tonnes of the sweetener was churned from the 18 factories that existed at the time.
The St Thomas Circuit Court, which has held its sessions in Kingston since the Morant Bay courthouse was gutted by fire in 2007, yesterday faced a total boycott by defence lawyers from the parish. The lawyers are protesting...
SENIOR LEGAL counsel in Trinidad and Tobago, Kathy Ann Waterman, wants criminal libel to be repealed in Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean, arguing that it has no place in modern jurisprudence. At the same time, chairman of the Media Association Jamaica Ltd (MAJ)...
The Police High Command has denied claims that it has been presenting blank detention orders before the Emergency Powers Review Tribunal.In reaction to a report in yesterday's Gleaner, citing lawyers who voiced concern about what they said were blank...
Tests conducted by an environmental assessment company have revealed that children in some Corporate Area schools are being exposed to air pollutants which cause learning disabilities and upper respiratory...
USAIN has bolted from competing in Britain because of a massive tax net which could capture huge chunks of the Jamaican superstar's earnings. Britain, which has moved to mend its leaking economy, has instituted new regulations which the BBC said would have caused sprinter...
Former registrar at the Office of the Children's Registry, Carla Francis-Edie, took charge as chief executive officer at the Child Development Agency (CDA) on July 1.The position was made vacant after former CDA boss Alison Anderson-McLean stepped down...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Spain's place among football's all-time greatest teams was assured yesterday when Andrés Iniesta scored with four minutes of extra time remaining to beat the Netherlands 1-0 and snatch his country's first World Cup....
Lawyers for several persons jailed under the state of emergency have charged that blank detention orders are being presented before the Emergency Powers Review Tribunal, a practice they claim prejudices their clients'...
The 10-year-old legal battle by Millicent Forbes to get justice in the case of her 13-year-old daughter Janice Allen, who was killed during a shoot-out between gunmen and the police in 2000, is finally over....
