Karen Elliot standing last week on the plot of land in Old Harbour Bay, St Catherine, that she received from the Government after losing her children late last year to the authorities because she was displaced after the structure in which she was living was severely damaged by Hurricane Dean, which hit the island on August 19 last year. - Ricardo Makyn/ Staff Photographer

Sunday

Gunman bares all

A repentant gunman with blood on his hands says corrupt policemen and politicians are helping to sustain violent crime in Jamaica.

From atop a two-storey building in one of Kingston's most desolate inner-city communities, Gunner (not his real name) calmly and candidly speaks of his life of crime and a desire to change.

Monday

Five-year jail 'trip'

Two brothers who chased a man, causing him to injure his ankle while he was jumping over a wall, will each have to spend five years in prison for causing grievous bodily harm.

Fitzroy and Leroy Nelson, of Middle Baxton, St Ann, had appealed their convictions and sentences on the grounds that the identification evidence was weak. The Court of Appeal dismissed their appeal last Wednesday.

Tuesday

PSC misbehaved

A former member of the Public Service Commission (PSC), Dr Alfred Sangster, is supporting the prime minister's decision to recommend the dismissal of the five-member body.

In a letter to the governor general late last year, prime minister Bruce Golding recommended that the PSC members be dismissed for misbehaving. Yesterday, Dr Sangster expressed agreement with the recommendation.

"There is good grounds for the prime minister's action," Dr Sangster told The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre. "The prime minister's position can be upheld in court."

Wednesday

Comrades lambaste Meeks

The People's National Party Youth Organisation has dis-paraged a recommendation in the Meeks' Report that the organisation be disbanded.

The report was commissioned by the PNP after it lost the September 3, 2007 general election to the Jamaica Labour Party.

Thursday

Auditors cast out

Four members of the audit department at the University of Technology, Jamaica, were yesterday sent on leave, after information from an auditors' report involving financial queries at the institution was circulated to the media.

Friday

UTech boss threatened

A death threat was reportedly made on the life of University of Technology, Jamaica, president, Professor Errol Morrison, last week, after information from a financial audit report, which contained queries, was circulated to the media.

Saturday

Cash Plus to appeal

Attorney-at-law Harold Brady, one of the lawyers representing Cash Plus Ltd, said that Cash Plus would be taking steps immediately to go to the Court of Appeal to get an order to stay the judge's order to close its remaining accounts with the National Commercial Bank (NCB).

This, after Dave Garcia, a general manager at NCB, said: "The Cash Plus accounts will be closed today (yesterday) and whatever money is left in the accounts will be returned by manager's cheque." His comments came shortly after the court ruling.

But Cash Plus' Vice-president Chris Goulbourne told The Gleaner after the court ruling that "nothing has changed".