PORT WOES - Shipping lines to apply surcharge for delays; importers and exporters to pay more
CONGESTION AT Port Bustamante in Kingston has prompted several international shipping lines to reintroduce a surcharge on local importers. But the move is not going down well with port officials and local shipping interests...
Investment headache - Bahía Príncipe ruling hurting Jamaica's investment image, says Campbell
STUNNED BY the recent court ruling in the case involving the development of the Bahía Príncipe Hotel, the Government is worried that the country's status as a viable investment location may have been damaged.
Policeman killed in Spanish Town
ANOTHER POLICEMAN has been cut down as gunmen struck at a restaurant in Spanish Town on Friday night. Reports reaching The Sunday Gleaner are that Detective Sergeant Desmond Carter, 45, of the narcotics division, was buying refreshments...
Montego Bay ... no gangster's paradise
LAST SUNDAY'S killing of Delano 'Bigga Crime' Williams, the man police dubbed as the second in command of the much-feared 'Stone Crusher' gang, has once again highlighted the fact that Montego Bay is not a safe place for men wearing the 'most wanted' tag.
Wide support for Portia's pastors
HALLELUJAH! PRIME Minister Simpson Miller's call for a 'chosen few' to be appointed to Government boards has received a resounding amen from a majority of Jamaicans, according to a Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll.
EDITORS' FORUM - Garrisons: the root of crime
GROUP studying the performance of the Jamaican economy since Independence has fingered garrison communities as the epicentre of violence and criminality in Jamaica.
Exposing the propaganda on the Caribbean Court of Justice
MICHAEL DE la Bastide, the learned president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), revealed in a lecture sponsored recently by the Caribbean Development Bank in Montego Bay, how distressed he was because the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords...
Extortionists on the loose in Clarendon
THREE MURDERS in less than 24 hours have paralysed Clarendonians with fear as rivalling gangs and extortion activities have again reared their ugly head. Residents fear that business persons have been targeted...
Nursing education not cheap
DESPITE THE prevailing shortage in nursing professionals in the health sector, the Jamaican authorities are not making it easy for new recruits. Jamaicans who want to work in this sector will have to shell out $300,000 for each year of training...
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