Bruce Golding queries Whitehouse funds - Demands explanation on Sandals extra payment
LEADER OF the Opposition, Bruce Golding, is again demanding answers to the source of funding for cost overruns, associated with the Sandals Whitehouse construction project.

Church leaders call for guns surrender
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: A CALL for gunmen to hand over their weapons to church leaders and other public figures echoed through the service of peace and unity at the Corletts Road Community Centre in St. Catherine, yesterday.

Cement price hike
EFFECTIVE TODAY, a bag of cement will cost $370. This represents an increase of over 12 per cent in the price it costs to purchase a bag of cement. Anthony Haynes, general manager of Caribbean Cement Company Limited, told The Gleaner...

Chang: Justice not served in Flankers - JLP deputy leader urges independent investigation of police killings
WESTERN BUREAU: DEPUTY LEADER of the Jamaica Labour Party, Dr. Horace Chang, has renewed the party's call for an independent authority to investigate controversial police killings. Reacting to the acquittal of four policemen...

We will not be distracted - Portia
THE GOVERNING People's National Party (PNP) yesterday said they are ready for elections but party leader Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller gave no signal as to when the next general election would be called.

I left them alive says murder accused
As prime suspect, 32-year-old Joel Smith continued his testimony in Old Bailey criminal court in London last week, in connection with the double murder of seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield and Bertram Byfield, he admitted visiting the deceased...

Schoolboys to answer firearm charges
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: THREE BOYS, two of them aged 13 and 14, will appear in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court tomorrow, to answer to gun charges. The three boys were held in Old Harbour, St. Catherine, about 1:00 p.m. last Friday...

400 delegates for Methodist youth festival
JUST OVER 450 delegates from across the Caribbean are meeting in Kingston this week for the third regional Youth Encuentro, an assembly of young people in the conference of the Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas (MCCA).