The judicial review into the eligibility of retired Court of Appeal judge Boyd Carey to sit on the panel probing the 1990s financial sector meltdown has been set for May 25.The hearing is estimated to last four days.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding leaves the island today to head the Jamaican delegation to the 21st intersessional CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Roseau, Dominica.Golding will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
The police sergeant and the businessman implicated in the Munster Road gun-and-ammunition find have been remanded on corruption charges. Sergeant Russell Robinson and businessman Garnett Pennington appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's...
Government has moved one step closer to establishing a new commission to respond to the perennial cry for justice by Jamaicans who often claim their rights have been breached by persons exercising state power....
From somewhere deep in the rubble, a ray of hope peeks out for 35-year-old truck driver Alvin Alberga, as residents of his community rally to assist the man whose home was razed by fire a week ago. Bay Farm Road in Olympic...
A LACK of leadership at the community level is being blamed for levels of poverty in many Jamaican communities. Scarlette Gillings, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund...
THE JAMAICA Social Investment Fund (JSIF) says it has been building fewer community centres because of a difficulty in finding persons or agencies to take charge of the facilities."We have suffered...
More than 1,000 students from Hutton's Education Unit are at risk of not being registered for this year's Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations unless millions of dollars in outstanding fees are paid over...
As women from all spheres of Jamaican life gathered downtown Kingston to mark International Women's Day, Inter-American Year of Women was officially launched in the island yesterday. Olivia Grange...
There is still no explanation from the Government as to what led to its decision to oust Major Richard Reese from the post of permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security....
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla is to preside today in chambers over the first hearing into the claim brought by four persons who were successful last month in stopping the commission of enquiry into the collapse of the financial sector...
WESTERN BUREAU:READING HER Daily Bread devotional flawlessly without the assistance of eyewear, 110-year-old Violet Mosses Brown has discovered the secret to living a long and happy life without some of the ills associated...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP):A SOUTH Korean couple addicted to an Internet game about raising a virtual child were arrested for neglecting their real three-month-old daughter and letting her starve to death, news reports said.The couple spent between four...
Nine-year-old mathematics whiz, Calainia McKnight, was the topic of discussion as she sat among hundreds of high-school students in Assembly Hall at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, on Saturday....
THE 10th most powerful Atlantic hurricane walloped Jamaica in 2004, causing problems for many, including a white and black cat, which was left with the task of finding food...
THE ceremonial opening of Parliament has been set for March 25, beginning at 11 a.m.On that day, Governor General Sir Patrick Allen will deliver the Throne Speech, in which he will outline the Government's programmes and policies for the 2010-2011...
WEEKS AFTER a rash of corruption cases hit the police, four ancillary workers connected with the narcotics division have been hit with drug charges.The quartet - all civilians attached to the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) - was...
Clarence Powell, principal of the Brandon Hill Primary and Junior High School, is expecting to see students' reading level improve with the opening last week of the institution's resource centre in west rural St Andrew....
CONTRARY TO an apparent agreement in a letter of intent signed in January, the Government has declared it has no plan to grant an exclusive national carrier licence to Caribbean Airlines after Air Jamaica is grounded...
Richard Reese, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, has been removed from that position in a surprising twist in the Armadale fallout..
Miami, Florida:BOTH POLITICAL parties in the Turks and Caicos, the Progressive National Party (PNP) and the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) will unite in a march tomorrow demanding...
