A medical practitioner and members of the Ricardo Lee Vasculitis Foundation are lobbying for at least one of the drugs used to treat vasculitis to be included under the National Health Fund (NHF) benefit as patients reel...
The busy commercial centre of downtown Kingston yesterday afternoon emptied faster than you could say 'Dudus', as word spread that the Government had signed the extradition request from the United States....
The government has decided to send the extradition request for west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the courts as Prime Minister Bruce Golding struggles to get back into the good graces of Jamaican...
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A wave of gun violence in Spanish Town over the past five days has now intensified with the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition issue, bringing additional tension to the old capital.The flare-up began last Thursday night...
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DAYS AFTER Prime Minister Bruce Golding told Parliament that the United States (US) had refused to budge in the extradition saga involving alleged drug dealer and gunrunner Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, a key member of the governing party...
Hours before the prime minister's address to the nation last night, Gleaner Writer Barrington Flemming took to the streets of Montego Bay, St James, to gauge the public's view as to what move Mr Golding should make next in the Manatt affair.
The Opposition will today table a motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Bruce Golding in the House of Representatives despite his plea for forgiveness in the wake of public outcry over an extradition fiasco involving an alleged mobster....
As the latest government scandal unfolds, this time including Prime Minister Bruce Golding, some Jamaicans are calling for a renewal of the political process. Confidence in the ruling Jamaica Labour Party appears to have weakened, and the Opposition...
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) has hinted that it is heading to Parliament tomorrow prepared for a possible no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Bruce Golding.The prime minister offered his resignation - which...
Prior to last Tuesday Delroy Chuck, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, had very little reason to rule on a point of order from Section 16 of the standing orders.
With the grades and fortunes of boys slipping everyday, some educators are calling for a curriculum tailored towards male teachers and the presence of more males in the classrooms....
THE UPSURGE of violence in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has caused church groups to call for political and police intervention to quell the bloodletting.Chairman of the Spanish Town Ministers' Fraternal, Bishop Roy Johnson...
More Jamaican fathers appear to be making an effort to be more involved in their children's lives.In the past, many fathers were criticised for showing little interest in their children's development, a role usually...
General secretary of the National Democratic Movement, Michael Williams, yesterday called on three of Jamaica's most influential organisations to stop giving donations to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)....
WHILE INSISTING that Prime Minister Bruce Golding should resign because of his double-talk in the Manatt scandal, the president of the People's National Party (PNP) has also called for serious introspection within...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Chairman Dr Ken Baugh and General Secretary Karl Samuda are veteran politicians used to facing the media, but at the Sandals Grande hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann, yesterday, both appeared fazed as journalists peppered them...
Contractor General Greg Christie, chief investigative watch-dog of government contracts, said yesterday that he would not wade into the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy because it was outside his remit.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding will tonight face the nation in a televised address less than 24 hours after the Central Executive - the nerve centre of his governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) - snubbed calls for him to quit because of an about-face...
TO THE consternation of a packed room of National Executive Council (NEC) members of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller yesterday called on the country to pray for embattled Prime Minister Bruce Golding and his family...
President of the East Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Pastor Adrian Cotterell, yesterday made a desperate plea to Jamaicans to redouble efforts to raise children responsibly, with juveniles increasingly becoming victim to sexual predators...
Noted psychologist Leachim Semaj believes Jamaica stands to benefit from the Manatt saga that has plunged the government formed by the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) into hot water...
Political observers, business groups and at least one prominent human-rights activist have reacted with outrage to the decision of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to reject calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding....
