The Government is to establish an anti-gang unit in the Ministry of National Security as part of its thrust to demolish organised criminal networks believed to be behind the majority of violence in Jamaica.The special...
Failure to plug a deep-sea well which has spilled tens of millions of gallons of oil along the United States Gulf Coast could have disastrous effects on Jamaica's already...
Associates of accused drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke have reportedly headed to the north coast resort town of Ocho Rios. And they certainly haven't carried their beach towels and suntan lotion.
Some suspected confederates of fugitive Christopher Coke are finding hideaways hard to come by after falling into a police dragnet in the business district of Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, yesterday. More than 20 stylish...
A Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) survey on losses suffered by the business and productive sectors shows that more than 98 per cent of its members were hurt by the late-May civil unrest in the capital....
Despite denials by the police yesterday that a comprehensive permit system governing all movement was introduced in Tivoli Gardens on Monday, Gleaner checks and anectodal accounts by residents there confirm its existence...
THOUGH THEY were one of the favourites to win the Super League netball competition, survival - not winning an elusive title - was priority for members of the Tivoli 'A' team late last month....
SOUTH ST CATHERINE Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster will next week come under intense fire from government MPs as debate on a motion to unseat her is expected to get under way.North Eastern St Catherine MP Gregory Mair yesterday moved a motion...
Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has ordered that Jamaica's mosquito-control programme be intensified.As part of the programme, fogging has already been scaled up in some areas and will stretch across most parishes as of today....
Hundreds of passports were seized and one man taken into custody when the police raided an illegal visa operation at John's Lane, downtown Kingston, yesterday....
Jamaica must move quickly to cool the flames of revenge among children in the battle-scarred communities of western Kingston, a government child-health official has warned...
Laboratory tests ordered by the health ministry have confirmed that contaminated water was sold to a rural area all-age school where there was an outbreak of gastro-enteritis in March. The lab tests confirmed that the health...
Fewer THAN two hours after legislators passed regulations which will give effect to the plea-bargaining law, strong opinions converged from both sides of the political divide, warning that the six crime bills...
SECTIONS OF Jamaica's capital were up to yesterday still painted by North America and the United Kingdom as risk zones their nationals should avoid.Two weeks after an unprecedented clash between the security forces and gunmen in west Kingston...
Amid a major drive by the security forces to neuter gangs and clamp down on violent crime across Jamaica, police statistics indicate that 752 people were killed in the first five months of the year. This means that for the first 151 days of the year...
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: In light of the recent incursion into Tivoli Gardens, Dennis Robotham, president of the St Catherine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, believes that now is the opportune time for authorities to take...
Under cover of scores of police and soldiers patrolling the streets, revenue-protection agents from utility companies and the Customs Department swarmed west Kingston communities yesterday in search of cheats....
Jamaica's ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks, came out pinch-hitting for the Golding administration yesterday, as she sought to defend tough action by the security forces in tackling criminal networks amid...
The people of Tivoli Gardens yesterday woke up to a permit system which was introduced, without prior notice, to monitor movement in and out of the troubled community. The discomfort was evident as long queues of grumbling residents...
Police and millitary personnel on the ground in sections of west Kingston under curfew since Sunday have received high marks for their conduct from several residents of the area."The soldier them cool.
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding heads a list of state officials who Contractor General Greg Christie wants to provide sworn testimony in a probe on the controversial...
With Jamaica's tourism status on life support after images of gun violence and mayhem were plastered across websites, newspapers and TV screens last month, the Government is seeking to give it a jolt of energy with a multimillion-dollar marketing makeover....
The events of the last two weeks have turned the spotlight on inner-city youths once again, and, for the most part, it is the negative sides of them that are being projected, with the dons and 'shottas' in their usual...
The security forces pounced on Matthews Lane and satellite streets of downtown Kingston in an predawn raid yesterday, seizing illegal weapons and detaining hundreds of young men in a major push to weaken the grip of gangs...
