Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Leading Jamaican banks are assuring account holders and other users of banking services that their savings and investments will be safe and that they will be able to get cash and access other financial services in the event of a major catastrophe...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda is rebutting criticism of the Government's plan to relocate the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) to New Kingston.Even as he described the criticism ...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Suspicion and disbelief continue to greet official reports on Monday's riot at the Horizon Remand Centre.Following a visit to the Spanish Town Road-based facility yesterday afternoon, Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson reported...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
After weeks of deliberations, the parliamentary committee reviewing legislation for the proposed Casino Gaming Act yesterday approved the bill that will be submitted to Parliament next Tuesday, February 16, for debate. The bill, which has been at least two years...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The island's nurses are dissatisfied with the Government's decision to give health-care workers four weeks to review documents outlining compensation levels under a reclassification exercise. The documents were released by...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Children are often taught that the sky is the limit. But for those living in the Greenwich/Lyndhurst area and other Kingston inner-city communities, ground-level limitations abound - restricting access to education, security and ambition...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Tax Administration Services Department (TASD) is warning drivers about a relatively new weapon it has added to its arsenal against tax evasion.Starting June last year, special registration discs were introduced that plainly read 'VOID' if...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Speaker of the House Delroy Chuck signalled yesterday that he is fed up with the misconduct of some members on both sides of the parliamentary chamber. Chuck dispatched copies of a memorandum to all 60 members of the House of Representatives...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
RESIDENT MAGISTRATE Judith Pusey is to rule today on whether she will admit into evidence the main cellular phone in the Cuban light-bulb affair. The phone, which prosecution witness Rodney Chin said he used to record conversations between himself and the accused...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Supreme Court judge Ingrid Mangatal is to make a ruling Friday on an application brought by three claimants to halt the commission of enquiry into the collapse of the financial sector in the 1990s. The claimants are former...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry had an abbreviated sitting yesterday, after one of the witnesses requested additional time because he was not prepared. The commission had last week subpoened Robert Martin, chairman...
Published:Wednesday | February 10, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Members of the public will be able to pay their respects to the late Professor Rex Nettleford in condolence books that will be opened from today until next Monday, the day before his funeral. A release from the Office of the Prime Minister...
Members of alternative investment scheme Olint were left fuming and with little hope yesterday as they emerged from a meeting aimed at updating them on efforts to recover their money. "I just can't be confident. It (Olint's collapse) has thrown our lives in shambles," declared Horace Brown...
Approximately 100 policemen rushed to the Horizon Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road in St Andrew yesterday, after a prison riot broke out during the mid-afternoon hours. National Security Minister Senator Dwight...
WESTERN BUREAU: As part of a wider initiative to determine how many legal guns are in the hands of Jamaicans - police, licensed firearm holders and gun dealers - National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson has ordered an islandwide audit."...
Sunday, February 14 - Valentine's Day - will mark the 11th year since eight young people drowned at sea and boat captain, Fred Hunter, says families still blame him for the clubbites' deaths. In 1999, 13 Gold Star youth club (now changed to Narine Avenue youth club) members....
Facing his own mortality, 19-year-old cancer patient Gary Buchanan got a lift yesterday when his desire to meet his nation's leader was fulfilled. Yesterday, in a meeting organised by The STAR, Prime Minister Bruce Golding paid the young man a visit...
Professor Rex Nettleford's body has been cremated in the United States and the ashes are to be transported to Jamaica for an official funeral next Tuesday. Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, (UWI), Professor E. Nigel Harris...
As the trial of Kern Spencer limped into another week, presiding magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday declared she had no desire to have the matter labour before her."I don't want to grow old trying this case," Pusey...
Archbishop of Kingston, the Most Reverend Donald Reece, yesterday delivered a staunch defence of the role the Jamaican Church plays in education, though conceding that stakeholders could do more to improve service delivery. "When you think of the schools...
Controversial Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal says he will continue his preaching in Jamaica, but promised that his messages will not be divisive."I hope my presence will be for good and positive things and not bad...
A FORMER national security minister is urging the police to use last week's betrayal by one in their ranks to renew their resolve to help weed out corruption in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). But even as Dr Peter Phillips commended the national security ministry...
Food For The Poor Inc (FFP), an international charity which also has bases in Jamaica, has purchased, packaged and shipped more than 3,100 tons of emergency relief to earthquake victims in Haiti, the organisation has revealed...
AN EXPLOSIVE temper, a history of violence and a controlling personality are three of the clearest warning signals for domestic disputes.Several clinical psychologists interviewed by The Gleaner warned that people should...
IN THE wake of the mushrooming of thousands of organisations throughout the region soliciting money for emergency aid in Haiti, Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called for an audit of all funds collected in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member states...
