Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has criticised the Government over its handling of the extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in an application filed yesterday in the Supreme Court for...
A string of sting operations involving the police and army is being planned to target crop and cattle thieves, who have for years been pillaging the agricultural sector.
K.D. Knight, one of Portia Simpson Miller's harshest critics during her campaign for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) in 2006, has been appointed chief healer in the party.
The Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) and Customs' Contraband Enforcement Team yesterday seized more than $25 million in illegal goods and cash at an upscale Beverly Hills, St Andrew, home.
More than 80 people have been fatally shot by the police since the start of this year, with another 33 individuals nursing gunshot wounds after alleged confrontations between cops and criminals.
Cabinet has signed off on the divestment of the operations of Air Jamaica to Trinidad-operated Caribbean Airlines, after an emergency meeting yesterday.The terms of the agreement between the Jamaican Government and the airline take effect on Friday.
Criticism of South Africa's pace of poverty reduction and its mixed success in forging a multiracial society is unwarranted and premature, South Africa's high commissioner to Jamaica, Faith Radebe, has argued.
There's one thing certain about police Superintendent Radcliffe Lewis - if you're within earshot of him, a sound bite is never far away.Lewis, who heads the constabulary's Traffic Division, is as widely known for his...
An estimated 400 students from across the island will be given financial assistance from the NCB Foundation to access tertiary and secondary education for the 2010 academic year.
FORMER GROUP managing director of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), Dr Ruth Potopsingh, has declared that auditors who questioned why the state-owned entity was paying for her security are ignorant of local conditions.
Concerns have been raised in legal circles as to why West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was named as a defendant in the motion filed in the Supreme Court by Minister of Justice and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne.
The South African High Commission is seeking to promote stronger business linkages between Jamaican entities and those in South Africa with an exhibition which coincides with the country's 16th year of freedom from the apartheid regime.
A BAN has been placed on almost all scrap metal export as Government yesterday moved to put a stop to rampant criminality that has laid seige to the industry.
Mounting pressure from a number of leading media entities in the United States on the extradition request for Tivoli Gardens strong-man Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is doing serious damage to the Bruce Golding administration's legitimacy, the Opposition has declared.
It has become abundantly clear that the Government is absolutely clueless about finding solutions to crime. Having listened to the chief servant, Prime Minister Bruce Golding in Parliament last week, we are left to feel that we are on the Titanic - waiting to live, waiting to die.
One religious group has expressed concern about the move by The Gleaner to publish the country's murder statistics each day. According to the Reverend Father Franklyn Jackson, rector of The Church of Transfiguration, the initiative is not positive.
Minister with responsibility for information, Daryl Vaz, has expressed shock at the fatal shooting of Mark deFreitas, son of Paget deFreitas, The Gleaner's overseas publications editor.
The Kingston and St Andrew Corporation will be launching an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of sections of a four-storey house in rural St Andrew yesterday which caused the death of a contractor.
Five persons were killed gangland-style in volatile Bird Hill Avenue of Meggie Top in Salt Spring, St James, on Saturday night in yet another murder/arson which has left the community traumatised and residents cowering in fear.
Senior Puisne Judge Gloria Smith has lamented the high number of cases involving the rape of children. Smith's complaint came after she sentenced a 50-year-old man on Friday to 12 years' imprisonment at hard labour after he pleaded guilty to raping an 11-year-old girl.
People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has read the riot act to party spokespersons. Speaking during a National Executive Council meeting of the PNP at Manchester High School in the parish yesterday, Simpson Miller warned that those who are not pulling their weight in contributing to the 'progressive agenda' may not be made ministers when the party retakes power.
The Harbour View Mini-Stadium stands at pride of place in the community, not only as the home of the outstanding football team with the attendant publicity it brings to the area, but also its physical location.
