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Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Under pressure from the Media Association of Jamaica Limited (MAJ), government senator Dennis Meadows has decided against proceeding with a controversial resolution, notice of which was given in the Senate last Friday.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Professor Charles Winston Anderson will be sworn in today to become the first Jamaican judge appointed to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Trelawny police have called for the completion of a multimillion-dollar station on Rodney Street in Falmouth, as the division buckles under pressure from the health department to improve working conditions for cops.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Member of Parliament Basil Waite. It has a nice ring to it. At least that's what the senator whose sights are set on Kern Spencer's seat seems to think.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The chronic failure of the State to throw high-profile Mafia bosses and community dons in jail has drastically diminished the confidence of the citizenry in the Government and the security forces to protect them from gangsters.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaicans might never learn the truth about how dozens of civilians were killed in west Kingston during last month's massive operation by the security forces. Despite a pledge by the Government that it would allow open and transparent post-mortems on the bodies, gaping holes are already beginning to appear in that vow.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The vuvuzela, the source of that never-ending, ear-splitting drone at World Cup stadiums in South Africa, has sparked rabid passion: Either you love it, or you hate the very ground of the person who invented it.

Published:Tuesday | June 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM

There are persistent reports that a 16-year-old high school student from the east opted for the $100,000 carrot and took up arms. Seems he wanted to make life better for his mother. Now that he is gone, someone should compensate this poor woman.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Burnt-out homes. Fleeing families. Spent shells littering the ground. Women weeping. Calls for justice. A community in crisis. That is the image that comes to mind when many Jamaicans think of Maxfield Park.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Ghana's Asamoah Gyan (right) celebrates with a teammate in tow after scoring the clincher in his team's victory over Serbia in yesterday's Group D World Cup match against Serbia at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica should brace itself for a wave of deportees from the United States as the number of locals in Uncle Sam's jails has swelled. Clifford Chambers, security attaché at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, told The Gleaner that more than 6,000 Jamaicans were now in US custody facing deportation proceedings.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Its purpose may be to divide, but for the past few nights, the wall that separates this biblical town in the West Bank from nearby Jerusalem has been bringing an international crowd together to watch World Cup games.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Barring no congressional delays, a new United States ambassador to Jamaica could be in the island by next month. A worst-case scenario puts the deal-clincher at three months from now.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Young people, 17 years and over, who are fit enough to donate blood, will have the opportunity to do so at either of two blood drives planned by the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) and Scotiabank to observe World Blood Donor Day 2010.

Published:Monday | June 14, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PUBLIC OPINION, reinforced by scientific polls, has indicated that the credibility of the Golding administration has been severely dented in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy.

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ARCHITECT Evon Williams places the love affair among many Jamaicans for huge personal dwellings with the 'windrush generation' that migrated to England to help rebuild post-World War II England and the polygamous structure of some...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WHILE the eyes of many Jamaicans were focused on the events unfolding in the western part of Kingston on Labour Day, Monday, May 24, others were trying to maintain a sense of normality by carrying out their usual volunteer activities, this year, focused...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE DEVASTATING upsurge of crime in west Kingston during the recent joint police-military operation has caused overwhelming stress among residents, crippled business interests operating in the corporate area, and placed tremendous strain on the security...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

After nine months pregnant with anticipation, and a defiant Prime Minister Bruce Golding adamant that the United States administration had not provided sufficient information to deliver Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to face the grand jury, Golding turned...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

EARLY YESTERDAY morning, the fervent search for the fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke took security personnel to the verdant hills of St Ann where it is believed that Coke owned property. While the area remained under surveillance, Coke was not found.

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Mandeville, Manchester:SHOCK AND grief wrenched through the Manchester capital yesterday as residents woke up to news that four people - all in their 20s - died in an early-morning traffic crash.The four died about 4...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A SMALL local human-rights group has filed a suit in the Supreme Court challenging the one-month state of emergency which came into effect last month and blaming Prime Minister Bruce Golding for the recent unrest in downtown Kingston.

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Western Bureau:"None of us is safe," muttered Patrick Lawson, speaking in disbelief at the news that his close friends and church family members Milton and Georgette Jackson were brutally slain at their home on Friday...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The colourful and influential clergyman, the Reverend Al Miller, has made an appeal for Jamaica's most wanted Michael Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to turn himelf in to the police.Miller, who was negotiating the possible surrender of Dudus before the Labour...

Published:Sunday | June 13, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE CLERGY is divided on whether or not Michael Christopher Coke, otherwise called 'Dudus', is the victim of a generational curse.Dr Raphael Thomas, pastor of the Annotto Bay Gospel Chapel in St Mary, says the Bible...

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