DEBATE ON the six anti-crime bills heralded by the Golding administration as critical legislative tools in the fight against the rising crime wave affecting the country started yesterday in Gordon House....
THE SECURITY detail for more than 60 prominent Jamaicans has been significantly increased since the extradition request for alleged drug baron Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...
The Government seems optimistic that it will not have to dip into the public coffers to finance the restoration efforts in Tivoli Gardens.The Golding administration has formally commenced a process of appeal to...
Pasty intestines mushroomed from an unknown woman's stomach as her bloated body lay cushioned on the grass. A man was still on a bed, naked, with his arms by his side.
TOWN CLERK Errol Greene was grilled on Tuesday by hard-hitting members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as they queried how his former personal assistant walked off the job...
IF THE green light to proceed with the process of extraditing Christopher Coke had commenced earlier, Jamaica might have found itself in more dire circumstances than it is in, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has...
The declaration of a state of emergency, with its suspension of civil liberties, is not a tool that this newspaper readily places in the hands of a government.
Up to Tuesday afternoon many residents in North East St Ann had still not heard the news that the Supreme Court had declared the seat held by the Jamaica Labour Party's Shahine Robinson vacant...
The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is working to shore up its resources, having utilised some emergency supplies after Haiti's massive earthquake in January and in the aftermath of last...
Leighton Coke, the brother of Jamaica's number one fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, turned himself in to the police yesterday evening at about 6:30, making his surrender the biggest capture since the west Kingston...
The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) used its majority in Parliament to secure the position of Bruce Golding as prime minister despite the parliamentary Opposition...
National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has vowed that the Government will use the recent incursion into Tivoli Gardens by the security forces as the template to break the back of Jamaica's gangs."...
The Government is to spend millions of dollars to repair buildings and other facilities damaged during last week's gun battle in Tivoli Gardens and adjoining communities....
Last week the parishes of Kingston, St Andrew and St Catherine came to a grinding halt.Schools in these parishes remained closed and the assumption was that the teaching/learning process would also come to a halt.
The North East St Ann constituency is now without a member of parliament (MP).The seat won by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate Shahine Robinson in the September 3, 2007 general...
A police post is to be established in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, as part of the State's efforts to entrench law and order in a community reputed to be the fiefdom of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, an alleged drug baron....
WESTERN BUREAU: Eleven-year-old Owayne Rodney woke up much earlier than usual on Sunday, but this time in a different parish and for one of the most important reasons in his life. Young Owayne, the 2010 Gleaner Spelling Bee...
Classes will resume at three public schools in west Kingston next Monday despite the ongoing operation by the security forces in Tivoli Gardens.The schools - Denham Town High, Denham Town Primary and Tivoli Gardens...
In an apparent about-face in the extradition fight over west Kingston enforcer Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne said she had taken into account evidence besides the contentious wiretapping information in signing the request for proceedings to begin....
Disappointment and anger were evident on the faces of residents of west Kingston yesterday as they received news that they would not get the bodies of relatives and friends killed during last week's conflict....
Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga could be hauled before the courts for comments he attributed to the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) made during an interview last week. President of the PSOJ...
The call to end the doling out of government contracts to bosses of the criminal underworld has been reiterated, as the operation to catch Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...
Residents of Hannah Town in west Kingston have pleaded with the minister of national security to quickly restore the police station in the community which was destroyed by thugs last Monday. The residents claim the station was razed by men...
JUSTIN 'STINGY' O'Gilvie, the man the Police High Command describes as a long-time associate and close ally of west Kingston strongman-now-turned-fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is now in police custody....
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has established a complaints office in Tivoli Gardens to allow residents to report allegations of misconduct by the security forces.This is in addition to the Office of the Public Defender, which is now operating out...
