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Sun, 30 May 2021 00:07:39 -0500
CROSSING DAYTON
Confirmation has come from Justice of the Peace (JP) Robert Buchanan that he has met with one of three young women at the centre of a sex scandal involving People’s National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell. Campbell has denied all...

Sun, 30 May 2021 00:07:20 -0500
‘The PNP is at war’
Allowing Dr Dayton Campbell to remain in his position as general secretary of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) “weakens the leadership” of the political organisation, one of his predecessors has warned. Almost six months into ...

Sun, 30 May 2021 00:12:24 -0500
SOS SALT SPRING | A ticking time bomb?
After living through years of bloodshed and lawlessness, residents of Salt Spring in St James have welcomed efforts by the authorities to bring order to their troubled community, but there are concerns that this new-found peace could be temporary......

Sun, 30 May 2021 00:14:07 -0500
Golding rues ‘unequal’ application of laws
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the recent events in Negril, Westmoreland, which led to the Government issuing a closure order on the popular tourist attraction and entertainment spot Rick’s Café, shows the unequal application of the rules an...

Sun, 30 May 2021 00:13:01 -0500
Building a lasting peace brick by brick
The mission to re-establish peace and further develop Trench Town and the surrounding communities in the Corporate Area is expected to receive a boost with the construction of the Joy Town Family Resource and Wellness Centre. The Joy Town Community....

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:11:06 -0500
RICK’S TO FACE MUSIC
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the resort town of Negril were not surprised at Wednesday’s police crackdown at Rick’s Café Negril, many telling The Gleaner that it was long overdue. The residents contend that flouting the Disaster Risk Management...

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:10:50 -0500
IDT awards $12.5m to dismissed Bustamante doctor
The Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) on Wednesday handed down a $12.5-million award to Dr Sandra Williams-Phillips, a consultant cardiologist who was unjustifiably dismissed some 11 years ago from the Bustamante Hospital for Children. In arriving....

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:10:57 -0500
Gayle: Don’t pressure boys to behave like girls
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Herbert Gayle, social anthropology lecturer at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, says that boys should not be expected to act like girls in emotional expression or communication style and must be trained in how to...

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:10:15 -0500
‘Papa Eddie’ saluted on 91st birth anniversary
Political representatives and guests gathered yesterday to honour the life and legacy of Jamaica’s fifth prime minister and longest-serving member of parliament, Edward Seaga. Seaga, who was head of Government from November 1980 to February 1989...

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:11:15 -0500
Hilary Phillips rests her gavel after yeoman service
Glowing tributes were paid to retiring Court of Appeal Justice Hilary Phillips yesterday during a special sitting of the court as the curtain came down on her 47-year legal career. President of the Court of Appeal Patrick Brooks, who led the...

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:11:25 -0500
TODSS: We can help find formula that works
Egeton Newman is hoping that, given the experience racked up by members of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), which he leads, they should have a seat at the negotiation table when the Office of Utilities Regulation (.....

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:11:43 -0500
Mother makes desperate appeal for missing cabbie
A St Thomas mom is fearing the worst after her son, a cab driver, has been missing for nearly two weeks without any substantive leads. “As a mother, I just feel like somebody kill him because I am nervous in my stomach … . I just feel like they....

Sat, 29 May 2021 00:11:34 -0500
Sexual Harassment Bill to be retabled next week
The report of the Joint Select Committee reviewing the Sexual Harassment Bill is to be tabled in the House of Representatives, along with a raft of amendments, on June 8, the same day Gender Affairs Minister Olivia Grange is scheduled to make her......

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:28 -0500
PNP split but Campbell survives
Dr Dayton Campbell may have survived as general secretary amid a developing scandal but the decision to retain him in the People’s National Party’s (PNP) senior ranks has sparked a smouldering conflict that could further torch a deeply divided....

Fri, 28 May 2021 08:28:10 -0500
Rick's Cafe admits to COVID breaches at Negril party
Popular western Jamaica tourist hotspot Rick's Cafe has admitted to breaching the island's COVID-19 safety laws after videos emerged on Thursday of beachgoers frolicking at a Mocha Fest party. Strategist in the tourism ministry, Delano Seiveright,....

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:15 -0500
Gangs have turned on me, says Rosie
“They said that my name is on a bullet.” That is the chilling warning reportedly relayed to Rosalie Hamilton, the sitting Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Rae Town division, who has observed rising tensions between rival gangs that have.....

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:09 -0500
Bouncing back from the dead
At 49 years old, Joan Edwards, a Jamaican in Livingston, New Jersey, is a happy, accomplished woman. She is the mother of two grown children and has just graduated with a doctoral degree in nursing practice from Grand Canyon University in Phoenix.....

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:01 -0500
Grave shame!
A dump. That’s the long and short of the No. 5 Cemetery in Spanish Town, metres away from the blighted high-rises of Tawes Pen in the distance. Situated at the vertex of Manchester Street, Chambers Lane, and Wellington Street, the burial ground ha...

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:16:56 -0500
$5 million fine or prison time for tip-offs
Attempts to derail criminal investigations by falsifying, concealing, destroying or disposing of documents or items relevant to a probe could land offenders in serious trouble with the law. The proposed penalty, if new provisions in the Criminal......

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:17:22 -0500
76-y-o’s decomposing body found at Mona home
Investigators are probing the circumstances leading to the death of an elderly woman, whose body was discovered by a gardener at her Gardenia Boulevard home in Mona, St Andrew, on Tuesday. The deceased, Ruth DeCasseres Murray, 76, is a retiree and....



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