Locked out! Public Defender's office barred from Horizon - Golding demands answers
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding last night demanded that prison officials explain to him by mid-morning today why investigators from the Office of the Public Defender's office were barred from entering the Horizon Remand Centre yesterday...
Gov't selling off Air Jamaica properties
GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY gave its clearest indication yet that it is streamlining preparations for the sale of the national airline, Air Jamaica, as well as taking care of the liabilities for which the state will be responsible...
A very dry spell - Daily chores become burdensome as Jamaicans make long trek for rare commodity
WITH WATER drying up, St Andrew residents are finding it increasingly difficult to do basic things, such as bathing, washing clothes and flushing toilets. The dam by the Mammee River consists mainly of silt and a few narrow tracks...
Four more members of the police force arrested
ONE WEEK after a police sergeant was arrested on reasonable suspicion of supplying guns and ammunition to an illegal weapons shop, four more members of the police force have found themselves on the wrong side of the law...
Reverend attacked by thugs
A beloved pastor is now in hospital battling for his life after he was stabbed several times by criminals who surprised him at his Red Hills home in St Andrew on Tuesday night. A source at the University Hospital of the West Indies revealed that the Reverend Donald Roberts...
FINSAC apologises for Orane mix-up
THE FINANCIAL Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) has apologised to Douglas Orane, chairman and CEO of Grace-Kennedy, after his name was included among a list of debtors who had amounts written off. The list was made public last week...
18 months for guilty jurors
THE TWO female jurors who pleaded guilty in December last year to soliciting a bribe of $100,000 from a woman, to free her son of a murder charge, have been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment each at hard labour. Resident Magistrate Dale Palmer sentenced the women...
Light-bulb defence switches to Plan B
DESPITE SUFFERING a body blow in court yesterday, attorneys representing Kern Spencer and Coleen Wright are fighting to prevent voice recordings allegedly captured on cellular phones by Rodney Chin from being admitted...