Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | July 10, 2009
Raining coke - Cops say drug is now smuggled in small portions
AFTER A two-year lull in seizures, the narcotics police said that millions of dollars' worth of cocaine is again flowing through the island's ports. Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, head of the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division, said that for the first six months ... Read More...
Nelson promises spruce-up for Mobile Reserve unit
Police personnel at the Mobile Reserve headquarters on South Camp Road yesterday gave yet another minister of national security a first-hand view of the revolting conditions under which they are forced to work and live.Head of the unit, Assistant... Read More...
JLP backs Hibbert - Company involved in bribery with minister expected to plead guilty
State Minister in the Ministry of Transport and Works, Joseph Hibbert, continues to enjoy solid support from the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the face of reports that a high-powered construction firm is today set to plead guilty... Read More...
Protecting yourself in challenging times
Financial analysts have been advising consumers and businesses, indeed whole economies, to cut unnecessary expenses as a means of surviving the economic fallout. Those in the know caution against frivolous spending and encourage instead a leaner... Read More...
JAS election gets farmers riled up
Usually peaceful farmers from rural Jamaica got quarrelsome as they cast their ballots for presidential candidates Glendon Harris and Allan Rickards and four others vying for the two vice-presidential slots on the Jamaica Agricultural Society's (JAS)... Read More...
Port Antonio Infirmary to be probed
Allegations of impropriety, intimidation and abuse at the Port Antonio Infirmary have triggered Mayor Floyd Patterson to order an investigation into all operations and activities at that facility. The investigation, now in progress, is, in part, to determine ... Read More...
DPP says cop to be charged with murder
The Director of public prosecutions (DPP) has ruled that a policeman is to be charged with the murder of his girlfriend.Okaro Bennett, a 21-year-old constable attached to the Narcotics Division, is accused of killing... Read More...
