Rage over bail - As court releases kidnap suspects, Nelson appeals for justice minister to step in
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson is furious that the court has granted bail to three of four members of a group of suspected kidnappers accused of abducting a prominent St Ann businessman. A clearly furious Nelson told The Gleaner yesterday that he has discussed...
The Dyke, Dryden and Wade story - Part 3
IN JUNE 1968, three West Indians, Len Dyke, Dudley Dryden (Jamaicans) and Tony Wade (Montserratian) started Dyke and Dryden Limited from an old partnership, Dyke and Dryden, whose core business was the selling of records, especially pre-released ones, from Jamaica...
- NCU president named outstanding educator
- Claim your healing
- Why is my daughter still playing with her dolls?
First sugar shipment sent off to Europe
Jamaica is to reap sweet benefits from the export of sugar to Europe under a contract it had entered into with Italian company, Eridania Suisse SA. The first batch of sugar under the agreement, in which the island is to supply a minimum total of 79,000 tonnes...
Portmore win at last
After failing to win a game since November 29, 2009, Portmore United yesterday pulled off a mild upset when they clipped title challengers Boys' Town 2-1 at Collie Smith Drive in third-round Digicel Premier League...
- Eastern Champs starts today
- Ponting's half-ton punishes Windies
- Villa held by Palace, Spurs draw at Bolton
EDITORIAL - No Glenmuir carpet cleaning
THE PUBLIC ought not to hold its breath on the expectation that it will hear much more, or certainly not the gritty details, about last week's 'friendly fire' shooting in Clarendon of two policemen from the constabulary's Organised Crime Investigation...
- The misconception of God
- Support local film-making industry, Jamaica
- Stop polluting the social environment
LETTER OF THE DAY - Flying against the jet stream
THE EDITOR, Sir: IN AN era of global airline deregulation, and the promotion of free-market economies, it's startling to see the Jamaican Government signing an official non-binding agreement that would preclude any qualified...
Re-empowering the Unsung Wailers
The Wailers were a musically cohesive unit on all angles. Together, texture, vocal flexibility, timbre, sense of musicality, thematic interest, kinship and vision was reflected in their overall sound and informed their spirituality and aesthetic concepts....