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...
More than 200 residents of Tivoli Gardens have so far registered complaints with the public defender's office, which has been set up in the community last Friday.The complaints centred around claims that members of the security forces executed family...
Jamaica Defence Force soldiers yesterday continued their painstaking search of west Kingston for the illegal guns believed to be among the arsenal amassed by the makeshift militia loyal to accused drug baron Christopher...
TWO MEN believed to be members of the criminal enterprise run by Christopher 'Dudus' Coke were among nine persons arrested in the upper St Andrew neighbourhood of Kirkland Heights yesterday during a massive military-police operation...
THE MOTION filed by west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke challenging the extradition proceeding against him is to resume in the Supreme Court today.The matter was first heard in chambers by Chief Justice Zaila McCalla on May 21...
Western Bureau: WITH MORE than 100 murders in St James since the start of the year, the parish, which includes the nation's tourism capital Montego Bay, continues to be a place where criminals pose a serious challenge to law...
MANY schools in west Kingston will remain closed today after a week of violent clashes between armed thugs and members of the security forces. Students from Kingston Technical, St Andrew Technical, Charlie Smith...
Officials in the country's health sector are expressing satisfaction with how the system performed when it was placed under immense pressure last week....
IT WILL cost the Government at least $68 million to reconstruct and repair two police stations that were attacked by gunmen loyal to Christopher 'Dudus' Coke during last week's unrest in Kingston.The gunmen were resisting the attempt by the security...
Three major incursions by the security forces into Tivoli Gardens during the last 13 years have resulted in the deaths of more than 100 civilians and three members of the security forces....
Despite the well-known downsides of his political leadership spanning some four and a half decades, I have always held in very high regard Edward Seaga's intellectual acumen, discipline and productivity right up into old age...
LONG-SERVING members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) have admitted that the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair and the bloody attempt to arrest the alleged...
MEMBERS OF of the police force and the army involved in last Thursday's operation in East Kirkland Heights, which ended in the death of businessman Keith Clarke, have been taken off front-line duties.
"YOU HAVE five seconds fi tell mi wah mi waah know," Clive claimed he was told by two policemen while they held guns to his head at his home in Tivoli Gardens last Monday.
