The government's handling of the extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and the resulting imbroglio surrounding the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips have stalled the social-partnership talks...
Using the World Wide Web as their forum, Jamaicans here and in the diaspora have joined the debate surrounding Prime Minister Bruce Golding's statement in Parliament on Tuesday.Golding revealed that he sanctioned a Jamaica...
IN 2006, then Opposition Leader Bruce Golding demolished the argument that ministerial responsibility could be separated from party duties. Four years later, Golding, now prime minister, drew on parliamentary rules to shut down questions...
HAVING HAD its leader hauled over the coals for sanctioning the engagement of a United States law firm to lobby the US government on an extradition matter, the Jamaica Labour Party ...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding was in hostile territory for just over two hours on Tuesday as the parliamentary opposition went in search of more clues in the Manatt Phelps & Phillips mystery. Golding admitted he had sanctioned the move to engage...
THE SOUNDS of consternation, shock and fury reverberated around Jamaica into boardrooms and bars, barber shops and parlours, on the streets and into homes as Jamaicans wrestled with the unabashed about-face of Prime Minister Bruce Golding....
CENTRAL MANCHESTER Member of Parliament (MP) Peter Bunting yesterday said Jamaicans who are taking a stand against crime could be putting their lives on the line, but stressed that it was necessary in order to free...
HE RAN and eluded the police dragnet Monday afternoon, but could not escape the network of the criminal underworld, who hunted and killed him yesterday.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday disclosed in Parliament that he gave orders for the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the United States government on the extradition matter...
A JURY was selected yesterday to try the case of the Jamaica Defence Force soldier accused of killing four people at a Corporate Area nightclub in October 2008.Corporal Leslie 'Steve' Moodie, 23, who is facing four counts of murder, was remanded until...
THE MICRO enterprise sector is to receive an injection of funds this year totalling $750 million. This amount will be made available to the sector through Jamaica National, Nation Growth and Access Financial Services.
GROWING UP in the tough community of Rockfort, which sits just east of capital city Kingston, was never easy for Simone Berdoe. There were nights, she recalls, that her family had to lie flat on the floor of their house...
THE Saga surrounding the engagement of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the United States (US) government on the extradition matter involving alleged crime lord Christopher Coke took a new twist yesterday when Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
THE Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) has defended the role of Courtesy Corps officers deployed across the island's resort towns. The defence comes in the wake of criticism from stakeholders in Ocho Rios...
Supreme Court judge Roy Jones has called for the United States government to make its voice heard in court proceedings seeking to determine if Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne has the authority to decline the extradition request for West Kingston...
Senior investigators are hot on the heels of the perpetrators responsible for shooting and critically injuring Oneil Edwards of the popular dancehall group Voicemail.Meanwhile, dancehall entertainer Mad Cobra...
Gunmen travelling in a motor car sprayed residents of a section of Mountain View Avenue with bullets late Monday, killing one man and injuring three others. The police have identified the dead man as 20-year-old André Mills, also...
LONDON (AP): Conservative leader David Cameron became Britain's youngest prime minister in almost 200 years yesterday after Gordon Brown stepped down and ended 13 years of Labour government...
A music video shot in Jamaica by international recording artiste Aubrey 'Drake' Graham, featuring dancehall heavyweight David 'Mavado' Brooks, has prompted Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett to warn local acts to be careful about the way they portray Jamaica....
The life of yet another Jamaican child has been snuffed out by gunmen who continue to blaze a bloody trail across the island. Nine-year-old Moesha Campbell, a student of the St Peter Claver Primary School, became child murder victim number 22 when...
There will be no midterm break for students at public schools whose teachers took strike action.A release from the Ministry of Education yesterday said it plans to compensate for the two school days lost - Monday, May 3 and Tuesday, May 4 - by limiting...
Gang feuds have been blamed for 38 of the 609 murders committed across the island since the start of this year, but the police accept that marauding criminal gangs are responsible for much more....
