Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Growing up in Waterhouse, St Andrew, Olympics and World Championships in Athletics gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser said her first answer to everything was "whatever"....
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Kevin Tyndale, former reputed member of the Joel Andem-led gang, Gideon Warriors, is seeking leave to go to the United Kingdom Privy Council to challenge his convictions and 30-year prison sentence. He was convicted ...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
WESTERN BUREAU: Mental health practitioner and administrator of the Committee for the Upliftment of the Mentally Ill (CUMI), Nurse Joy Crooks, has renewed calls for an exclusive ambulance...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Government is spending just over $25 million to refurbish three buildings to be used as safe shelters for the victims of human trafficking. One shelter has already been completed at a cost of $10.7 million...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
"Sometimes all I make is $100, and that is when I am lucky to sell something." Camille, a vendor at the Kingston Craft Market, has been frustrated by dwindling business and earnings she depends on for her daily survival....
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
AT LEAST two cops that testified before the com-mission of enquiry into the deadly fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre for girls were not deemed truthful. Commissioner Justice Paul Harrison...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The efforts of the Rotary Club of St Andrew North received a major boost recently when Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) presented the service organisation with two cheques totalling US$2,500....
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Gleaner has obtained a copy of the report of a commission of enquiry into the fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre that led to the deaths of seven female wards. The report contained 16 observations and recommendations...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Embattled head of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Alison Anderson-McLean, has quit, ending a six-year tenure marked by stinging criticisms of her performance. Health Minister Rudyard Spencer confirmed last night that Anderson-McLean submitted her resignation ...
Published:Wednesday | February 24, 2010 | 12:00 AM
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw yesterday pledged to "rein in renegade" public-sector entities which, he said, have been reckless in the management of their affairs and have contributed to Jamaica's public debt...
THE POLICE High Command is denying a Sunday Gleaner report that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Paul Robinson has been replaced at the police armoury. In a statement released yesterday, acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington suggested ...
The administration of the Vauxhall High School in east Kingston is standing behind one of its male teachers who was involved in a fracas with a student that left the schoolboy needing seven stitches to the nose...
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, is warning that Jamaica is likely to suffer economically if it continues to sacrifice farmlands to facilitate other development...
Residents of Southboro in Portmore, St Catherine, have reacted with a mixture of bafflement and dismay to the disturbing spectacle of a policeman's body found, shot execution...
Always striving for excellence, never settling for mediocrity, students who excel have much in common - focus, determination and great parental and teacher support.Today, The Gleaner celebrates with the island's outstanding...
A MAN who was the complainant in a case in which two men were convicted and sent to prison did not convince the Court of Appeal last week when he said he wanted to purge his guilty conscience....
Jamaica's MAJOR Science and Technology Exposition for students attending primary through to tertiary institutions is now set to kick off its 2010 series.Sponsored by the Jamaica Public Service, the expo, which is held in collaboration...
An investigation has been launched into the leak of the Armadale Enquiry Report more than a week before it was scheduled to be tabled before the Cabinet, Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson has revealed...
THE PEACE Management Initiative (PMI) has taken police intelligence and the Ministry of National Security to task about the estimated number of gangs in Jamaica.PMI spokesman Horace Levy told The Gleaner...
WITH THREE days left before the rescheduled closure of the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX), Finance Minister Audley Shaw is reporting 99 per cent participation by bond holders....
A LARGE cross section of Jamaicans, especially from the business sector, was on hand yesterday to support the 12th annual Pan Caribbean Sigma Corporate Run, which was held in and around the environs of New Kingston...
AN UPCOMING workshop on business and financial reporting will provide journalists, as well as communications personnel at regulatory agencies, with critical research and reporting skills to put public and private companies...
THERE ARE signs that the fears and concerns of banana farmers, nearly two years after Jamaica decided to discontinue exporting the product, are beginning to recede....
Finance Minister Audley Shaw has vowed that the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry will be completed despite what he says are attempts to derail the process...
THREE MEN suspected of involvement in the drugs-for-guns trade were held last Friday night and an undisclosed quantity of compressed ganja confiscated by police personnel who swooped down on Sugarman Beach in Hellshire, St Catherine....
