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...
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....
