Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington today conceded that the Jamaica police did not explore the possibility of filing criminal charges against convicted drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke. Ellington also said the Jamaica...
The Investment Ministry has reportedly been barred from releasing information on the controversial Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that Portfolio Minister, Anthony Hylton says will be signed with a company wanting to pump US$5 billion in Jamaica...
A high-level police team is to meet today to assess the evidence gathered so far in the investigation into last week’s murder of four people, including three teenagers, in Clarendon. Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ealan Powell, says...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller this afternoon visited grieving relatives of the three teenage boys and the 35-year-old man who were shot and killed execution style in the Monymusk Housing Scheme in Clarendon on Wednesday. Simpson Miller told...
The St Thomas Police have stepped up measures to ensure that public passenger vehicles (PPV) are equipped with safety features in the event of an emergency. This move follows a fire which destroyed a Coaster bus about 1 p.m on Thursday along the...
The World Economic Forum has released a report ranking Jamaica in the bottom half of countries in the world with effective parliaments or law making bodies. Singapore tops the list of 143 countries. The Global Information Technology...
After hours of contemplation, a magistrate has ruled that the St Mary teen suspected of trying to join a militant group be remanded in police custody until Tuesday. The magistrate has also ordered a preliminary social enquiry report into the...
The life and achievements of internationally acclaimed musical legend and Rastafarian luminary Robert Nesta Marley have been kept alive through artefacts, memorabilia, writings and photographs enshrined at his former residence and studio at 56 Hope...
The Clarendon Police have nabbed two men, they believe are linked to last night's shocking killing of four people, including three boys, at a house in Monymusk, Hayes, Clarendon. The two are now being questioned by investigators....
Youth and Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, says yesterday’s incident which left three young boys and an adult dead in Clarendon highlights that laws and regulations alone cannot help to address violence against children. She says parents and...
Youth and Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, says it's time the decision is made to remove the State's "veto" power that interferes with women’s control over their bodies and make it unlawful for them to do abortion. She first...
Three students and a 35-year-old Clarendon man were on Wednesday night shot dead in the Monymusk Housing Scheme, Hayes in the parish. The police have identified them as: 14-year-old Raymond Givans, a student of the Vere Technical High School; Ricardo Briscoe, also 14 years old, of ...
The 2015 information technology report has found that 80 percent of Jamaica’s population widely use social media networks including Twitter and Facebook. This weakens an argument by government minister Robert Pickersgill, who in the height of...
The Family Court is to rule tomorrow on whether the teen detained on suspicion that he was trying to join Islamic militants in the Middle East should be released from police custody. The court has issued a gag order barring attorneys and police in...
Aide to the Opposition Leader Sharon Hay Webster has confirmed that she has applied to the Jamaica Labour party (JLP) to be its representative for North East St Catherine constituency. The seat is currently held by the JLP’s Gregory Mair....
A new international report says Jamaica is failing to exploit the potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to drive social and economic transformation and catch up with more advanced nations. The finding was published in the...
Published:Wednesday | April 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Attorney-at-law Zara Lewis, says she will be seeking a declaration from the court on whether the continued detention of a teen over suspicions he is trying to join Islamic militants in the Middle East is a breach of his constitutional rights....
Published:Wednesday | April 15, 2015 | 11:16 AMGleaner Writer
Mayor of Kingston, Senator Angela Brown Burke, says the recent removal of homeless persons in the corporate area was routine and not a special programme because of last week's visit of United States President Barack Obama. Images by concerned...
Published:Wednesday | April 15, 2015 | 12:00 AMGleaner Writer
Opposition Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Trade Edmund Barttlet is commending moves by United States President Barack Obama to rescind Cuba's State Sponsor of Terrorism designation. Yesterday the White House announced that Obama...
Former Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says after 2001 the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke-led gang Presidential Click significantly upgraded it's firepower. In 2001 there was a commission of enquiry into another police-military operations...
Retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington says the nation is fortunate that the security forces were able to repel the attack on the state by the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke led Shower Posse back in 2010. Ellington, who was testifying before...
Retired Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has revealed that days before the 2010 police-military operations in Tivoli Gardens there were reports that an aircraft carrying a "shipment of guns" landed at the Vernamfield airstrip in...
The government is to acquire lots on the historical lands at Pinnacle in St Catherine for use by members of the Rastafarian community. Culture Minister, Lisa Hanna, made the disclosure on the online current affairs programme, On the Record, to be...
Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding was this morning questioned at the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry on his relationship with Reverend Al Miller, in whose company, then fugitive, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was found in 2010. ...
An upset Local Government Minister, Noel Arscott, says there is no fire at the Riverton City dump in St Andrew, contradicting reports from the Jamaica Fire brigade. He says an “ugly” fire is at an open lot off Spanish Town Road. Minutes...
