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Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:09:51 -0500
DUPPY OR GUNMAN?
Defence lawyers on Monday ripped into the credibility of one of the prosecution’s main witnesses in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial for placing their clients at various locations, including murder scenes, while they were behind bars. Drawing on th...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:09:45 -0500
Charles Sr rallies rural army to challenge farm thieves
WESTERN BUREAU: Retired veteran parliamentarian Pearnel Charles Sr has rallied farmers to form a brigade to stave off the attacks and plunder of produce and livestock. Charles, the father of Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Pearnel Charies Jr,...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:09:59 -0500
The pride of Rose Town
As the clock wound down for the women’s 100-metre hurdles finals at Hayward Field in Oregon, Elizabeth Smith started to suffer a throbbing headache hundreds of miles away in Jamaica as her granddaughter Britany Anderson settled down for the bigges...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:09:11 -0500
Crowdfunding to help finance $2b community reform project
The private-sector-driven social transformation and community renewal project launched on Monday will shortly tap the Jamaica Social Stock Exchange to raise $650 million over the next five years. The $2-billion Project STAR initiative targeting 10-....

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:07:48 -0500
Charles Sr: Command missing students back to classrooms
WESTERN BUREAU: Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Deputy Leader Pearnel Charles Sr is urging political representatives to intensify efforts to have students displaced from the education system by the pandemic back into the classroom to finish their....

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:08:57 -0500
‘We are struggling’
Cultural music blaring from speakers within the Kingston Craft Market near the waterfront has done little to pique the interest of residents, tourists or passers-by to drop by and make purchases. With the nation celebrating its 60th year of...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:09:06 -0500
Westmoreland gets cracking on Jamaica 60 legacy project
WESTERN BUREAU: Already equipped with public Wi-Fi access, the Westmoreland Municipal Corporation will this week commence rehabilitation work on Independence Park, the parish’s legacy project for the island’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations. Bertel...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:08:10 -0500
St Elizabeth’s jubilee project to miss Independence target
WESTERN BUREAU: Black River Mayor Derrick Sangster has said that a St Elizabeth Municipal Corporation project to upgrade the E.V. Allen meeting room into a museum, among other things, will not be completed in time for Jamaica’s Diamond Jubilee....

Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:08:33 -0500
‘Cushion the crisis’
People’s National Party President Mark Golding has chided the Government for its non-response to the Opposition’s proposals to cushion the effects of the cost-of-living crisis on the most vulnerable citizens. “The world is going through a wick...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:09:28 -0500
Two killed in collision nightmare
Sunday’s mass-casualty crash along the Llandovery main road in St Ann has highlighted Jamaica’s public emergency traffic crisis. That grim warning comes from Dr Lucien Jones, vice-chair and convenor of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC). ...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:09:04 -0500
Lawsuit looms over Excelsior as nursing students in limbo
Excelsior Community College (ECC) is facing the threat of a lawsuit following claims from several final-year nursing students that senior administrators have sabotaged their prospects of completing the Bachelor of Science nursing programme. The...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:08:31 -0500
Audley Shaw’s less-famous twin
Audrea Shaw-Green still has cups and other paraphernalia she was given as a child during the 1962 Independence celebrations. Though she was 10 years old at the time, she recalls the happenings vividly, the excitement etched in the mind of the now......

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:11:52 -0500
MP Jackson sues Scotiabank over cheque-cashing fee
St Catherine Southern Member of Parliament Fitz Jackson has locked horns with Scotiabank Jamaica, filing a lawsuit in the Supreme Court challenging the legality of cheque-cashing fees imposed by the financial institution on its customers. The court....

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:10:50 -0500
‘Hard work always pays off’
A decade has passed since Brigitte Foster-Hylton, OD, hung up her spikes, calling time on a long and successful international career. And in a Sunday Gleaner interview last week, the former women’s 100-metre hurdles World champion shared that the...

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:10:13 -0500
Crime consensus under threat?
National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has not attended any of the six meetings held this year by the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC), which has been mandated to set goals aimed at mitigating crime and report to the public on the...

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:06:31 -0500
Doctors refuse to have skin bleachers as patients
Several Jamaicans who have used chemicals to lighten their skin are now caught in a quandary as some medical practitioners are flatly refusing to treat them – regardless of their health concern – because of the heightened risk of developing life...

Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:12:13 -0500
Former Companies Office boss claims victimisation
Former Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) CEO, Judith Ramlogan, is alleging victimisation in the non-renewal of her contract after two decades at the helm of the executive agency. Ramlogan, who was also the registrar of companies, told The Sunday......

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:09:48 -0500
NARCO DRAGNET
Fifty-year-old Anthony Daniels and 60-year-old Hugh Fraser, who were among four men held in a major police operation this week, have been accused of being players in a drug-trafficking network operating out of Jamaica and the United States. Daniels....

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:09:22 -0500
Third J’can consents to extradition in int’l money laundering case
One of the three Jamaicans implicated in an alleged “sophisticated” international scheme that laundered more than US$6 million in drug-trafficking yesterday abandoned his plans to contest his extradition to the United States. Seivwright Affleck,...

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:06:10 -0500
Foster-Allen warns of grief if COVID learning gap not reversed
Elaine Foster-Allen, former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, has added her voice to warnings that the estimated 120,000 students who were missing from online classes in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will cause grief for...



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