Jamaica Gleaner

The pressure on the Bruce Golding administration to send the worrying extradition request for Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to the courts continues to mount.Three more powerful organisations have...

The government has given the clearest indication yet that the fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correction Centre was behind the planned transfer of permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese.Since...

The University of the West Indies' School of Education on the Mona campus recently staged a two-day conference titled 'Improving Literacy for Adolescents and Youth At Risk'.The conference, which was held March 11-12...

Kennedy Reid can certainly be called 'Mr Portmore', because he has spent the last 12 years of his life studying the landscape, the people and the history of the Sunshine City.

The Gleaner 'Champs 100' crew touched down in the Second City yesterday as Herbert Morrison Technical played host to the nomadic pre-ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships celebrations yesterday afternoon.

Mark Kerr-Jarrett started a letter with, "It is amazing how immune we have become to the gradual moral decay of society [...] "

THE SENATE yesterday passed companion pieces of legislation to enhance the Government's fiscal management and accountability framework.Senators gave the nod to the Public Bodies Management and Accountability Act, with three amendments and the Financial...

The Betting Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) has denied the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation's (KSAC) application for a city lottery.Derek Peart, executive director of the BGLC, told The Gleaner the KSAC was not...

A woman, who made several telephone calls to a complainant who was raped asking her not to report the matter to the police, was yesterday convicted by a Home Circuit Court jury.

Hutton's Educational Unit may be forced to close its education centres in Linstead and Spanish Town as a result of financial difficulties.Director Neville Hutton, in admitting that the institute was encountering cash-flow...

THE United States Department of State was blunt in its criticism of the Jamaican Government yesterday when it accused the administration of being lacklustre in relation to the fight against corruption in the public sector. In its 2009 Country Report...

Just over one week after the United States flayed Jamaica in its annual Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the country has received another low grade from the Americans....

A policeman uses his baton to disperse looters, including children, on the scene of an accident involving a Toyota motor car and a truck...

THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has defended its report to Parliament on the realignment of boundaries and the increase in the number of constituencies from 60 to 63....

STUNNED BY Everald Warmington's decision to break ranks during Wednesday's sitting of the House of Representatives, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has hinted the member could be strongly reprimanded...

South West St Catherine Member of Parliament Everald Warmington says he believes Speaker Delroy Chuck made a mockery of Parliament by the way in which he presided over the business of the House of Representatives on Wednesday...

Nine hundred and eighty students of Hutton's Education Unit who were at risk of not participating in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) tests in May and June have been given the go-ahead to sit the tests...

Hi neighbour! Let's be thankful that despite the negative attitudes and destructive dispositions of some, there are always those who will help to mend lives and pick up the pieces. A young rape victim had to flee her home in the country in fear of her...

THE NATION'S most powerful group of business leaders, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), has joined other associations and individuals in disagreeing with the Government's decision not to sign the extradition...

Difference is always noted, and so it was for the duo Duane McIntosh and Sandre Malcolm, marketing students at the University of the West Indies (UWI)...