In a situation where one person out of a population is a deviant, we would focus an explanation of his deviance on the formation of his personality. But in a situation where an entire section of a population is deviant, our focus inevitably must be directed to processes that shape the foundations of behaviour.
Christopher 'Dudus' Coke will remain on the United States most-wanted list even if he is not extradited by the Jamaican authorities.An official of the US Attorney's Office says the west Kingston strongman known as the...
ACUTE POVERTY and violence are denying students vital hours in the classroom. These age-old problems have not gone unnoticed by researchers and the Ministry of Education.
A tremor shook sections of New Kingston as well as downtown Kingston yesterday around 1:08 in the afternoon.The earthquake, whose epicentre was located 65 kilometres east southeast of Santiago, Cuba, measured 5.6 on the Richter scale, according to the...
MANY JAMAICANS left the ticket office at the National Stadium yesterday morning disappointed and disgruntled as their pursuit of grandstand tickets for the final day of the 100th staging of Champs proved futile.
North Street was a hotbed of excitement yesterday afternoon as defending ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys' champions Kingston College (KC) played host to the Gleaner-powered 'Champs 100' tour.
WHILE JAMAICAN Olympians continue to make strides into the future, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA), along with Great House OmniMedia publishing, documented track and field's past in great detail.
USING THE American International School of Kingston (AISK) as a marker, Minister of Education Andrew Holness said the rest of the education fraternity, including the government's stake, should strive to build the facilities which it now offers its...
Former vice-president of the People's National Party (PNP) Dr Peter Phillips has been given an official platform within the party, but Chairman Robert Pickersgill is downplaying its significance...
Rank-and-file cops are questioning whether the Police High Command has changed its policy on the use of highway patrols, with the withdrawal of a substantial portion of the fleet from the streets...
WESTERN BUREAU:The island's custodes will be given executive office spaces at major courthouses in the parishes they represent, according to Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne...
The woman who was publicly celebrated for her honesty after she surrendered more than $1 million she found two years ago has been robbed of her only son...
The Government is to compensate the mother of 15-year-old schoolboy Jason Smith, who was fatally shot by the police in Spanish Town, St Catherine, in July 2002.Monica Williams, mother of the deceased, had filed a suit...
A whopping $343-million jackpot is up for grabs tomorrow in Supreme Ventures' Super Lotto game, which has not had a winner nearly seven months after it started....
The People's National Party's Dr Peter Phillips has scoffed at renewed attempts by Prime Minister Bruce Golding to distance his government from a reported contractual arrangement ...
ALL FETES and marches planned for next weekend's Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships have been banned by the police as part of their plan to stem the violence...
PERSONS WHO have supplied goods or services to government departments and agencies, and have not been paid, may have to wait a while to get their money. Finance Minister Audley Shaw said yesterday that although allocations...
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Finance Dr Omar Davies yesterday urged Government to get its house in order quickly before borrowing from the central bank becomes a habit.Revisiting the issue of Bank of Jamaica (BOJ)...
With one week to go before the tabling of the estimates of expenditure for the 2010-2011 fiscal year, Finance Minister Audley Shaw has indicated that the national budget will be at least $100 billion less...
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw is assuring the nation that Jamaica will be able to draw down on a US$100-million disbursement from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), due in the second quarter of 2010...
A MULTImillion-dollar contract, around which questions have been raised about the Government's involvement with United States law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, through local attorney Harold Brady...
Attorney-at-law Harold Brady took to the airwaves yesterday in an effort to blow away the stormy clouds which have hovered above the Government since allegations surfaced on Tuesday that his offices had contracted...
