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Law firm links haunt Government
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 ...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-19
No Champs fêtes
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...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-19
Sav gets more municipal police
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland: The enforcement of municipal laws and efforts towards greater traffic management in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, have been boosted, with six additional municipal police officers...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Council hunts funds to restore Spanish Town square
Funding is being sought to restore several buildings in Emancipation Square, Spanish Town, St Catherine, at a cost of $600 million."We are looking at UNESCO and the European Union to fund the project," said Christopher Powell, secretary manager of the...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Good support for parish-visioning symposium in Clarendon
MAY PEN, ClarendonUnder the direction of the Office of The Prime Minister's (OPM) Department of Local Government, the Clarendon leg of the series of parish-visioning symposiums was held recently at the Versalles Hotel, May Pen, Clarendon.With 50...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Saving your way to comfortable living
TO SAY Jerico Hanson is a saver does not do justice to the life he has built on a simple philosophy - no matter how little you earn, save something.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
YMCA helps the disabled
The Kingston Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) has set up a life-coping skills programme to provide hands-on experience for adult persons with disabilities."Many of these individuals are able to demonstrate comprehension by role playing...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Health care gets a prop
The Government has increased its financial allocation to regional health authorities, which have been struggling to survive under the pressure of free health care.The health ministry and the Bellevue Hospital have also had their budgets topped...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
JCC chimes in on 'Dudus' issue
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), in the same vein as the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and the Jamaica Council of Churches, has called on the Bruce Golding-led Government to send the extradition request for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Autoskills providing new hope for dropouts
The Autoskills computer software has been improving communication skills in marginalised communities across the island, according to Claire Harri-singh, Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) Foundation special projects manager....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Extradition and ministerial discretion
THE GOVERNMENT of Jamaica has put to rest speculations as to whether it would accede to the United States' request for the extradition of Christopher Coke. Prime Minister Bruce Golding identified two reasons for this decision.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Bigger budget goes to garbage
With garbage piling up in several communities across the island, the Government has allocated an additional $200 million to dispose of the waste...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Foul odour grounds US Airways flight to Jamaica
Seven crew members and two passengers aboard a US Airways flight bound for Jamaica were taken to a hospital in North Carolina yesterday after complaints about strong odours kept the jet grounded. Two pilots, five flight...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Opposition, Gov't lock horns over Brady contract
FIREWORKS WENT off liberally in Gordon House yesterday after Opposition member Peter Phillips made a startling revelation concerning an alleged contractual arrangement between the Government and a United Sates law firm, which works through a prominent...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Army man turns prison boss
Less than two days after The Gleaner reported that pressured Commissioner of Corrections June Spence-Jarrett had been transferred from the national security ministry, an interim prison boss has been installed....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Budget climbs again
The Government has tacked on $31.5 billion to its Budget for this fiscal year which ends in two weeks. With nine days to go before he presents the 2010-2011 Budget, Finance...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
'It wasn't us!'
Still jolted by Monday's gun battle between the police and gunmen, residents of Hannah Town yesterday feverishly sought to distance their community from the clash which claimed the lives of three men. Three policemen were injured....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-17
Lawyer urges probe before diaspora representation
CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER Dr Lloyd Barnett is advising the legislature to conduct detailed studies and carry out extensive consultations before altering constitutional provisions to facilitate parliamentary representation by members...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
Kern tapes will be heard, says judge
THE CROWN scored a major victory yesterday in the Kern Spencer trial, as Senior Magistrate Judith Pusey ruled that the cellphone recordings between Spencer and star witness businessman Rodney Chin should be played and become part of the evidence....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
No funny stuff
KINGSTON (JIS): THE MAJESTY Gardens Basic School in southwest St Andrew has received well-needed assistance from the Steve Harvey Foundation, which presented the institution with a cheque for just over $1 million last Friday....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
Gleaner profit turn on cost reduction and Sangster's divestment
IN A turnaround from the previous year - when it posted a loss of nearly $445 million - The Gleaner Company reported net profit of $208 million for 2009, including $48 million it booked in the group accounts...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
Spence-Jarrett out
MINISTER OF National Security Dwight Nelson said late yesterday that the Public Service Commission (PSC) had reached a decision on the fate of beleaguered Commissioner of Corrections June Spence-Jarrett, following a meeting yesterday....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
Inside the firefight
Jamaica Defence Force soldiers use a fence to shield them as they prepare to enter the fray, as police and gunmen locked horns in Hannah Town, west Kingston, yesterday.Inside the firefightInjured cop tells colleagues of his ordealBarefooted and still...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
War zone
ONLY HOURS after the curtains descended with a flurry on a birthday bash for embattled Tivoli Gardens community leader, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, neighbouring sections of west Kingston exploded into a raging gun battle...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-16
Dreams realised
It was Rita Hilton's desire to provide grants for tertiary-level students, but she could only afford one at a time.When Hilton, of St Leonards in Westmoreland, told her friends about the concept...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
Region's youth worry about galloping crime
Crime and violence has been identified as the number one concern among adolescents and youth in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), according to a report from the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development. This matter was associated with poverty...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
A mom's fight to save her child
A mother is in a race against time to save the life of her ailing five-year-old who has been diagnosed with a string of medical complications.Lorna Smith told The Gleaner that since last year she has been pulling out all...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
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Tax offices close later for today's deadline
The Tax Audit and Administration Department says it will close one hour later today at 14 tax offices in preparation for the usual large number of people expected to file their income-tax returns on the due date...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
Trelawny custos gets credentials Thursday
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: New Trelawny Custos Paul Muschett will be officially installed on Thursday.The ceremony will be held in Falmouth's Water Square, starting at 2 p.m., with the pomp and pageantry supplied by the Jamaica...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
'Enough runaround'
Despite concerns that registered nurses might take industrial action in response to perceived foot-dragging of the Government on salary payments and a reclassification exercise, Nurses' Association of Jamaica...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
Prison boss' D-DAY
Weeks after a scathing report on the Armadale fire tragedy surfaced, embattled Commissioner of Corrections June Spence-Jarrett has been summoned before the Public Service Commission (PSC)....
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-15
Barbados shuts out dancehall
A BARBADOS minister of government has moved to shut out toxic Jamaican dancehall music from his country.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Tough inner-city realities
Four years ago, the UWI and UNESCO teamed up to produce a series of public-interest videos, one of which was titled Seeing Red - The Science of Violence. In 11 short minutes, the video paints a compelling picture of how the seeds of the violent behaviour are sown in the earliest years of our lives.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Jamaica's killing streets - Garrison politics the crux of crime
The following is an excerpt from the recently published book Killing Streets and Community Revival, authored by Horace Levy, University of the West Indies research fellow and member of the mediation group Peace Management Initiative. See Part 2 in tomorrow's Gleaner.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Water: Untreated and bacteria-infested
While you may not take a drinking glass to the untreated water sources, if the fluid, chilled with ice, is presented to you on a hot sunny day, you would not detect contamination with the naked eye. The water looks clean. But looks are sometimes deceiving.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Water - A piped dream
A decade into the 21st century and Jamaica still remains the land of wood and no piped water for more than 800,000 Jamaicans who are still not being served by the National Water Commission (NWC), the parish councils or private providers.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
United States vs its 'backyard' - Washington always wins
THE FACE-off between Washington and Kingston over reputed Tivoli Gardens enforcer Christopher 'Dudus' Coke has revived memories of similar clashes between the United States and countries in this region.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Miller stands alone - 'Dudus' divides Church
Miller stands alone'Dudus' divides ChurchA matter for the courtsA great deal of desperate drivel has been recently spoken and written regarding the relationship between the Extradition Act and the Interception of Communications Act.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Deadly water - Untreated fluid sold for drinking
A Sunday Gleaner investigation has revealed that three of the untreated water sources being frequented by the water trucks failed a standard bacteria test known in environmental health circles as multiple-tube fermentation.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-14
Hutton's forced to close branches
Hutton's Educational Unit may be forced to close its education centres in Linstead and Spanish Town as a result of financial difficulties.Director Neville Hutton, in admitting that the institute was encountering cash-flow...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Don't tell, Woman convicted for asking for another's silence
A woman, who made several telephone calls to a complainant who was raped asking her not to report the matter to the police, was yesterday convicted by a Home Circuit Court jury.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
KSAC's lottery licence request rejected
The Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) has denied the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) application for a city lottery.Derek Peart, executive director of the BGLC, told The Gleaner the KSAC was not...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Senate tightens Government's money-management guidelines
THE SENATE yesterday passed companion pieces of legislation to enhance the Government's fiscal management and accountability framework.Senators gave the nod to the Public Bodies Management and Accountability Act, with three amendments and the Financial...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Fighting moral decay
Mark Kerr-Jarrett started a letter with, "It is amazing how immune we have become to the gradual moral decay of society [...] "
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Champs 100 tour a hit at Herbert Morrison
The Gleaner 'Champs 100' crew touched down in the Second City yesterday as Herbert Morrison Technical played host to the nomadic pre-ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships celebrations yesterday afternoon.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
'Mr Portmore' tells the untold story
Kennedy Reid can certainly be called 'Mr Portmore', because he has spent the last 12 years of his life studying the landscape, the people and the history of the Sunshine City.
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Saving youth at risk
The University of the West Indies' School of Education on the Mona campus recently staged a two-day conference titled 'Improving Literacy for Adolescents and Youth At Risk'.The conference, which was held March 11-12...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
Reese moved because of Armadale?
The government has given the clearest indication yet that the fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correction Centre was behind the planned transfer of permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese.Since...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
'Dudus' pressure
The pressure on the Bruce Golding administration to send the worrying extradition request for Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the courts continues to mount.Three more powerful organisations have...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-13
There is much good out there
Hi neighbour! Let's be thankful that despite the negative attitudes and destructive dispositions of some, there are always those who will help to mend lives and pick up the pieces. A young rape victim had to flee her home in the country in fear of her...
jamaica-gleaner.com 2010-03-12
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