Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Saturday | October 24, 2009
No witnesses: DPP tries everything to ease case backlog: Office puts out more than a dozen advertisements since April
Paula Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions (DPP), says her department will not leave cases to die from old age because of a failure to locate witnesses. Read More...
Women who fork - Former banana workers bounce back with European Union help
In most professions, women have been successfully smashing the proverbial glass ceiling for decades. Medicine, law, transport, education, construction, aviation, communication and governance are just a few areas in which women have started to make their mark. Read More...
MIT goes hunting for latest cop killer
The Major Investigations Task Force (MIT) is leading the hunt for a gunman who fatally shot 31-year-old Police Constable Delroy Brown in Seaview Gardens, Kingston 11, on Thursday evening.Police investigators say they are following several leads as they... Read More...
Jury hears more about how Lyns' bodies found
The 12-member jury heard evidence yesterday that on December 29, 2006, the accused, Calvin Powell, told the police that he wanted to take them to show them the bodies of elderly Manchester couple Richard and Julia Lyn. Read More...
Heavy rains lash Hanover
Heavy rainfall in the parish of Hanover impacted movement along the section of the North Coast Highway between Tryall and Lucea. Read More...
J Wray and Nephew loses round two to workers
The Supreme Court yesterday dismissed an application by liquor company J Wray and Nephew for a judicial review against a ruling by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT).Last month, the IDT ruled that the company should reinstate 20 workers whose... Read More...
