They can't be serious! - Officer corps dismisses ad for commissioner as trivial
With 14 days to go before the deadline expires for interested persons to apply for the job of commissioner of police, only one person has applied since the post was first advertised on Sunday. "Well, yes, we received one application today (yesterday)," Jacqueline Hinkson, chief personnel...
Azan, Porteous to contest local government elections
DEFEATED People's National Party (PNP) parliamentary candidates Richard Azan and Scean Barnswell will be contesting the local government elections. Mr. Azan, a former junior government minister, lost his North West Clarendon seat to the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Michael Stern.
Privy council not opposed to toll
The United Kingdom Privy Council on Monday heard the appeal by five residents of Portmore, St. Catherine, in which they were claiming that the imposition of a toll for the use of the Portmore Causeway breached their constitutional rights. While the law lords did not formally hand down...
Jamaica's First Lady of racing dies at 90
The sport of horse racing has lost one of its stalwarts with the passing of the legendary 'Hall of Fame' trainer Eileen Cliggott, Jamaica's First Lady of racing. Mrs.Cliggott died at 11 o'clock on Monday morning at the Tony Thwaites wing of the University Hospital of the West Indies....
Janice Allen case headed for UK
The Janice Allen case is now heading to the United Kingdom Privy Council for a determination as to whether the Jamaican court was correct when it refused leave to go to the Judicial Review Court for an order to quash a jury's verdict. The Court of Appeal...
Voters' list was clean - Walker
DIRECTOR of Elections Danville Walker has said that the September 3 general election was conducted on a clean voters' list. Mr. Walker and his office came in for intense criticism from the People's National Party (PNP), which lost the election and by virtue of the loss...
WOOLMER INQUEST - 'No indication of strangulation'
BRITISH PATHOLOGIST, Dr. Nathaniel Cary, yesterday told a coroner's inquest into the death of late Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, that based on post-mortem examination files and photographs, it is unlikely Woolmer was murdered.
Little support for 'Name the Child Project'
According to the Registrar General's Department (RGD), only about one per cent of its target audience has come forward in support of its recently launched 'Name the Child Project'.The programme, which began early October, targets some 6,872 children born between September 1, 2004...
G-G Awardees, Cornwall
The following are the parish recipients of the Governor -General's Achievement Awards for the county of Cornwall.
Hands Across Jamaica reaches out to youth
As both the major victims and perpetrators of crime grow younger and younger every year, yet another group is targeting youth with a move to bringing about some social change. Nearly 31 per cent of young people from as early as a few months old to 24 years are murdered each year....
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