Guns for hire - Dirty cops collecting cash to protect criminals
The high command of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is getting more worried about the number of policemen and women hiring out their services to criminals. Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington revealed the JCF's concerns yesterday, less than 24 hours...
- No security breach at Jamaica House - acting commish
- Bring the noise
- Guest editor profile - The fierce defender
Donald Quarrie in 'crisis' mode
On the last day of November, all is calm at Donald Quarrie (DQ) High School, Harbour View, St Andrew. The school term is turning the corner for the home stretch to Christmas, as the athlete after whom it is named would come off the bend and power towards...
- Veteran teachers make the grade - Campion names rooms in quartet's honour
- Put sports agencies on one team, Bartlett urges
- DPP urges media to be strong
AIC bondholders demand higher returns - Lee Chin to pay 30-50% by Dec 9 - Two more years for full redemption
Billionaire investor Michael Lee Chin on Thursday put a new proposal on the table to AIC Barbados bondholders, asking for another two years to pay off debt on overdue notes, promising returns of 12 per cent. His Jamaican creditors, however, have counter-proposed 13.25 per cent...
- SVL issues fraud alert
- Byles begins search for hotel operator
- Pulse aims up-market with Villa Ronai - Starts with discounts for tenants
Canada's Tubb shines
Western Bureau:Canada's Oliver Tubb found the scenic Half Moon Golf Course in Montego Bay much to his liking on yesterday's first day of the 46th staging of the 54-hole LIME Jamaica Open Golf Championship, when he shot a good-looking 66 to be the tournament's leader...
EDITORIAL - A transport bungle
Not only are the authorities off to a bungling start in their latest effort at reforming Kingston's bus system, but they appear en route to reintroducing many of the worse elements of what existed up to late in the last decade...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Value of outside criticism
The Editor, Sir: I suspect that one of the main reasons Jamaica has so many problems today is that for decades it has exported a significant number of its most talented people. Like a country which has sent its best young men off to war...
Super fan pours her heart out for Bolt
Elaine Sullivan, winner of The Gleaner's Super Fan promotion for Usain Bolt's 9.58 Super Party, said she was excited about meeting the sprinter at his party at Richmond Estate tomorrow. Sullivan answered the call in The Gleaner promotion and perfectly ...
What a party!
The news started to spread just like the fire which started at a section of J. Wray and Nephew's warehouses just minutes before the start of the company's annual Christmas media party. Many were left pondering their next move. Should they go home or remain at the Constant Spring...
DOMINICA - Political dual-citizenship battle on the horizon?
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC):Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has admitted being in possession of a French passport, but that did not prevent his nomination among over 50 candidates to contest the December 18 general election...