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Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:10:11 -0500
Birthday tragedy
What was intended to be a night of celebration of life morphed into tragedy for a 24-year-old woman celebrating her birthday and the motorcycle driver with whom she whizzed through Kingston’s streets late last week. Those circumstances appear to b...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:09:35 -0500
Montague ex-adviser lands $5m job without basic requirements
The Ministry of Transport and Mining has acknowledged that Lerone Laing, a former adviser to portfolio Minister Robert Montague, was selected to head the Toll Authority although he does not meet the minimum requirements for the job. The Toll...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:08:35 -0500
Glengoffe Grinches already stealing Christmas
Weeks before the heights of the Christmas shopping season, thieves in the rural northern St Catherine region of Glengoffe are already targeting small business operators on Main Street and other districts like Cassava River and Big Road. Just last......

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:09:52 -0500
Woman stabbed to death in love triangle spat
A years-long dispute between two women over a shared partner ended fatally after a stabbing incident on Princess Street in downtown Kingston last Friday. Dead is 31-year-old Kayon Boyd, otherwise called ‘Pretty Kay Kay’, a nail technician of 28...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:10:23 -0500
Expect more vax barriers, Tufton warns public
An increase in entry barriers against unvaccinated Jamaicans is expected to be a key strategy of the Holness administration in its bid to ramp up the country’s flagging COVID-19 immunisation campaign That will complement community-focused outreac...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:08:29 -0500
Insurers urged to tailor coverage for the poor
Insurance companies have been urged to create more “inclusive” coverage specifically tailored for low-income Jamaicans who have been adversely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The call was made on Saturday by Opposition Senator Damion...

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:10:06 -0500
American held in coke bust at Sangster
An American citizen was taken into custody following a drug seizure at the Sangster International Airport on Saturday. Reports are that, about noon, the female was about to board a flight to Charlotte in the United States when the narcotics police.....

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:10:01 -0500
Three killed in Spanish Town in 24 hours
An unidentified male was shot and killed in the vicinity of a train line near the Jonathan Grant High School on Salt Pond Road on Sunday. The latest incident brings to three the number of homicides in Spanish Town, St Catherine, within a 24-hour...

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:14:48 -0500
US$100-million gap
Nearly US$100 million or more than J$13 billion in payments made by Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP) over a four-year period to its joint venture partner in the Jamalco refinery cannot be accounted for, a leaked preliminary treasury and financial...

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:15:43 -0500
$50-million contract controversy hits RADA
An alleged scoring error that resulted in an initial winner of a multimillion-dollar contract to supply tractors has plunged the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) into controversy, with a lawsuit threat from the aggrieved company...

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:13:30 -0500
Gun permits in firing line
Businessman Robert Ivey was given licences for four guns, including a rifle and a shotgun, despite convictions in the United States (US) for drug-related crimes, a Sunday Gleaner investigation has revealed. Late businessman Robert Fletcher had two.....

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:13:18 -0500
Supply chain issues threaten Christmas commerce
With the global supply chain yet to recover from COVID-19 shocks, it could be a bleak Christmas for shoppers across the island as merchants pass on the increasing costs to source goods overseas. Freight rates have spiked by as much as 600 per cent.....

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:12:55 -0500
‘Band-Aid on sore foot’
With fewer boots on the ground, after the failed attempt to extend the states of emergency, the Area One Police have increased their presence in troubled communities in Westmoreland with a hope of establishing relationships that will aid in their......

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 00:15:25 -0500
‘He was the backbone of the family’
Police Constable Dwight Gregory, who was killed in Hatfield, Manchester, on Friday night, had snubbed suggestions by his sister to retire from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) – the institution to which he had given some three decades of...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:07:39 -0500
GRANDMA KILLED IN FIGHT
Travis DeSouza is now trying to process the fact that his 77-year-old grandmother is dead, allegedly at the hands of one of her grandsons in an incident he describes as “pure foolishness”. Recalling the events leading to the tragedy in Kemps Hil...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:07:30 -0500
DPP calls for painstaking probes to present potent cases
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has emphasised the importance of collecting, analysing and presenting digital evidence that can stand up to scrutiny in court. Speaking at the launch of three training videos dubbed ‘Digital......

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:08:00 -0500
Sisters throw out furniture to host school in living room
Several children are singing the praises of a makeshift classroom created by sister teachers in the hills of Bull Bay, St Andrew, to release them from the frustrations of online schooling. Kimberlee Woods and Karen Wright are at the heart of the...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:09:07 -0500
Defence accuses lead investigator of lousy detective work
The lead investigator in the Clansman-One Don Gang case yesterday dismissed a suggestion that his investigation was shabbily done. Attorney-at-law Kimani Brydson, who is representing defendants Tomrick Taylor, Owen Ormsby and Daniel McKenzie, made....

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:08:52 -0500
Residents mum as gunmen shoot 13-y-o girl, man
Residents of Cassava Piece in St Andrew are remaining tight-lipped about a shooting incident in the Grant Lane area of the St Andrew community on Thursday night, which left a 13-year-old girl and a man injured. According to Detective Inspector...

Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:08:15 -0500
Anderson raises red flag over approach to Teaching Council Bill
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Garth Anderson, dean of the Teachers Colleges of Jamaica, is warning that the Government could be going down a slippery slope in its approach to the current Jamaica Teaching Council Bill, which is before Parliament, by not...



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