Bullet blitz! - MontegoBay cops under probe for 45-minute illegal gun salute
WESTERN BUREAU: The police High Command has launched a top-level probe to flush out the policemen involved in the staging of a gun salute at a wake in honour of their fallen colleague in Montego Bay, early Tuesday morning. The Gleaner understands that the illegal discharge...
Father of four shot dead on wife's birthday
Yesterday was Rohan Thompson's wife's 30th birthday. But he was robbed of the joy of celebrating it with her when armed men shot and killed him at the intersection of Mountain View Avenue and Goodwich Lane in east Kingston. The couple would have celebrated their seventh...
Over $20 billion more on budget
Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, yesterday tabled the first supplementary estimates in the House of Representatives for the 2007/2008 fiscal year.The estimates, totalling just over $402.5 billion, come with recurrent expenses of $13.4 billion ...
McKenzie sits in at Rae Town
Desmond McKenzie, chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Area Council One, has assumed responsibility for the Rae Town division following the shooting of the incumbent candidate, Rosalie Hamilton, on the weekend. According to police reports Miss Hamilton was sitting at her gate...
Government of Jamaica green-lights new commissions
The Government is pushing to fulfil its first 100 days pledge to draft legislation setting up two major investigative bodies - an independent commission to probe extrajudicial killings and abuse by members of the security...
'Teachers need to learn about dealing with AIDS'
Dear Dr. Figueroa: Let me first congratulate you on the marvellous work you have been doing as Chief of AIDS. I am very grateful that under your leadership, Jamaicans living with HIV now can get free medicines. I am a 13-year-old youth living with HIV and in second....
AJ warns Golding of constitutional crisis
Opposition spokesman on Justice, A.J. Nicholson, is warning Prime Minister Bruce Golding that any attempt to prevent Governor-General Prof. Kenneth Hall from carrying out his constitutional responsibility in appointing a Solicitor General, as recommended by the Public...
Parliament pays tribute to Herb McKenley
Parliamentarians yesterday paid homage to Herb McKenley, the great Jamaican sportsman and administrator who died on Monday. Seven parliamentarians - three from the People's National Party (PNP) and four from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) - spoke glowingly of a man who once aspired ...
Public bodies to face DPP
The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) yesterday reported seven public bodies to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for failing to comply with the lawful requisition of the Contractor General. The delinquent public entities are the College of Agriculture...
'Give teachers power to search'
Following the stabbing death of a student at Jamaica College (JC) on Monday, president of the National Parent-Teacher Association, Sylvester Anderson, believes the Government should look at allowing school administrators to...
Schools shun same-sex debate
Claiming that several schools, which registered to participate in Scotiabank's primary school HIV/AIDS debate competition last year, dropped out because of the moot, William Clarke, president of the bank, yesterday urged more schools to get involved in the competition....
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