FOR YEARS, the diverse cultural and educational contribution of Tivoli Gardens to Jamaica has been overshadowed by the perception that the community is a haven for thugs and gunmen.
Jamaica's speller Owayne Rodney fell out at the semi-final stage of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee yesterday.The 11-year-old Gleaner Children's Own Spelling Bee champion was attempting to be the second person from outside the USA to win the...
A second Microsoft Imagine Cup team from Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is through to the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition.Team Xormis' dream of representing the region was deferred after it placed second in the finals behind...
Thousands of names have been added to the new voters' list published by the Electoral Office of Jamaica on Monday.Close to 33,000 names were added and 2,460 deleted, bringing the total number to approximately 1.5 million.Director of Elections Orrette...
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) has called on businesses to chip in and inject much-needed funds into the island's health facilities.Speaking at a press conference Thursday at the MAJ office to announce the association's annual symposium, which...
The scent of burnt items still lingers in the 'Curry' air, but the radiating beauty of the fruits and vegetables in the market overpowers the unfortunate smog that has stiffled activities in Jamaica's most popular market for more than a week.
The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) says it has already spent $7 million cleaning up communities in west Kingston in the wake of last week's major gun battle in that section of the capital city.Millions more will have to be spent to...
THE PROMISE of a new day dawns in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, with today's scheduled opening of a police post in the community that has been devoid of consistent police presence for most of its existence.
STUDENTS OF west Kingston schools who are to sit Grades Three and Four exams could have additional time to prepare.Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell, has said there is a proposal on the table to reschedule the Grade Four...
Former People's National Party (PNP) candidate Rohan Silvera has denied being a player in the cash-for-gold trade.The police on Thursday listed Silvera among 25 persons they claim have ties to criminal gangs.However, Silvera, who the police said is a...
Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, has expressed disappointment at the levels of extinction of some of the world's species."Biodiversity, the incredible variety of life on Earth that sustains us, is in peril.
The Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) has called on the Government to direct the security forces to show regard for the lives and freedom of all Jamaicans while carrying out their operations during the state of emergency.
When a mother of two who lives in the Maxfield Avenue area of Kingston woke up Thursday and saw water coming from her kitchen pipe, she thought it was a dream."Me jump up and go look, 'cause me couldn't believe it.
A post-mortem conducted on businessman Keith Clarke has revealed that he was shot 20 times by Jamaica's security forces on May 27, a human-rights activist has told The Gleaner.The report documented 20 entry wounds...
The Salvation Army yesterday moved to assist the people of west Kingston who are still struggling to return to normality a week after a bloody gun battle in that section of the capital. With many residents displaced...
Ever since the warrant of arrest was issued for alleged drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, there has been debate about whether there is any legal basis for the Government to make a move on his assets. The Proceeds of Crime...
The Government has been pressed to pick up the tab to bury the casualties of last week's Tivoli Gardens incursion. Seventy-three civilians were killed after gunmen in the west Kingston community clashed with the security forces.
IT COULD cost nearly one-fifth of the current national Budget to smash the reign of terror by gangs responsible for bloodletting across Jamaica, says Finance Minister Audley Shaw. The island's economic growth has been...
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington was back in Tivoli Gardens yesterday to review the post-battle atmosphere as the security forces continue to gear down to a civil operation in the one-time fortress of a fugitive don....
A frustrated Earl Witter, Jamaica's public defender who is probing alleged extrajudicial killings by the security forces in Tivoli Gardens, has expressed disappointment that potential crime scenes were not being preserved....
DESPITE TWEAKING provisions in one of the six anti-crime bills now being debated by Parliament, there remains strong resistance to the detention of persons for 60 days, albeit a clause for periodical judicial review...
Jamaica's spelling champ Owayne Rodney has qualified for today's semi-finals of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Grand Hyatt Washington hotel in Washington, DC.Owayne, the reigning Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee champion...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is considering measures to assist the recovery process in west Kingston. Among the projects being explored by the UNDP team in Jamaica is a clean-up of the May Pen...
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla is expected to make a ruling today in the application brought by ousted west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, who is seeking leave to go to the Judicial Review Court to quash extradition proceedings against...
BREWSTER, Washington (AP):The panic is over.Five months after Gebbers Farms fired an undisclosed number of undocumented workers during a federal audit, Jamaican guest workers have started to flow into Brewster to fill some of the jobs.That's a welcome...
