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Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:10:12 -0500
TRAFFICKING HORROR
Sandra Gipson stands today as a resilient woman who survived trafficking and child sexual abuse at the hands of relatives. With hopes for a better life, the then-14-year-old left Jamaica on a three-month visa for Florida in January 1979 to live...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:09:32 -0500
Wehby calls for more tech to restore order to roads
Senator Don Wehby has called for the swift deployment of more traffic cameras to bring rogue motorists to book, urging the Government to make it a top priority as the Senate yesterday approved the Road Traffic Regulations. The regulations will,...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:10:29 -0500
No bail for Ranko Gang cops as hearing collapses
Efforts to secure bail for the cops who have been charged for being part of the Clarendon-based Ranko Gang were scuttled in the Supreme Court yesterday after the bail hearing failed to get under way. The plea and case management hearing has been...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:08:14 -0500
Manchester warms up for big celebrations with float parade
Major towns in Manchester were painted in black, green and gold as scores of residents donned the national colours to join the Manchester float parade on Thursday as celebrations kick into gear to mark Emancipation Day and the island’s 60th...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:08:56 -0500
Emancipation Jubilee returns to Seville to reignite African spirit
After being staged virtually for the past two years as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emancipation Jubilee returns to the Seville Heritage Park in St Ann on Sunday, July 31, with special guest performers from Nigeria as part of the Jamaica 60......

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:08:52 -0500
Cop held in Donaldson probe to be questioned today
Embattled police constable Noel Maitland, who has been detained in relation to the probe into the disappearance of Donna-Lee Donaldson, will spend the weekend in custody after his legal team’s bid to argue a habeas corpus application in the...

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:10:35 -0500
Gordon Harrison wants human trafficking fight ramped up
National rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Diahann Gordon Harrison, has asserted that though gains have been made, more needs to be done in the fight against human trafficking. In 2018, about 50,000 human trafficking victims were detected and......

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:08:45 -0500
Golding: Education in chronic state of alarm
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding believes that having pumped more than $500 billion into the education sector in the last two decades to boost outcomes, the country has not received bang for its buck. “What has caused our dismal performance in....

Sat, 30 Jul 2022 00:09:48 -0500
Youngsters advance career drive with Chronixx-funded coding camp
Fifty students graduated on Friday after completing a month-long coding camp funded by reggae artiste Chronixx and aimed at further opening their eyes to the possibilities in the world of technology in spurring development. Staged between July 4...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:14:19 -0500
Mass murderer may dodge death penalty
The death penalty, which was being sought for the man guilty of the Clarendon massacre of a woman and her four children, may no longer be on the table. That is despite Rushane Barnett, the 23-year-old who pleaded guilty Thursday, having inflicted.....

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:13:38 -0500
Donna-Lee ‘a beautiful soul’
Administrators at Kingston Technical High School (KTHS)have recalled missing social-media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson as a “beautiful soul” and a model student who displayed much potential for a successful future. Haydria Stewart, vice-......

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:12:54 -0500
Bruce Golding: Education biggest failure of Independence era
Asserting that Jamaica’s “biggest” failure since Independence is the education sector, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the nation’s future lies in the services industry. Golding said the opening up of the education sector in the 19...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:13:04 -0500
Homeschool policy on agenda as parents challenge bill
Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams has committed that the Government will begin the process of developing policy for the homeschooling sector in Jamaica. The pledge came Thursday as homeschooling parents appearing before a joint select...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:14:42 -0500
Where is the money?
A defence lawyer in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial yesterday raised questions about the whereabouts of the extortion money that one of the prosecution’s witnesses had testified he had safeguarded for the gang. The witness, who said he was the......

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:05:19 -0500
Gang feud linked to double killing in Spanish Town
The killing of two men whose decomposed bodies were found in bushes along a canal behind the Spanish Town motor vehicle examination depot on Job Lane are believed to be gang related. The police are yet to disclose details of how they were killed...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:14:32 -0500
Patrick Bailey disbarred
Senior attorney-at-law Patrick Bailey was on Thursday struck off the roll of attorneys eligible to practise in Jamaica for failure to hand over US$17,640 to a client. The Disciplinary Committee of the General Legal Council (GLC) made the decision......

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:12:28 -0500
Donna-Lee net widens
“Lines of enquiry have opened up” around several persons of interest beyond the police boyfriend of missing social-media influencer Donna-Lee Donaldson who has been arrested by law enforcers in a dramatic twist in the high-profile case that has....

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:11:12 -0500
Bruce Golding: ‘We have messed up’
Days before the nation marks its 60th anniversary of Independence, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has acknowledged the failure of successive administrations to fully advance Jamaica’s interests. “Politicians have their fair share of blame....

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:10:05 -0500
Garbage chief denies corruption probe triggered staff redeployment
Executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Audley Gordon, has denied a claim by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis that two senior employees were transferred to the company’s head office after internal auditors.....

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:12:17 -0500
Expert witnesses don’t prove Crown’s case – defence
A defence lawyer in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial argued Wednesday that the prosecution’s expert witnesses, including the ballistic expert, did not strengthen the Crown’s case. “The expert witnesses who should have been deemed or found to b...



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