Shady deal - Probe ordered into free Cuban light bulb distribution in Jamaica
THE CONTRACTOR General and the Auditor General have been asked to investigate the circumstances under which the last People's National Party (PNP) government accrued a bill of more than $276.5 million in the distribution of free Cuban light bulbs....
New heads rolling in
Louis Williams is expected to be named as the new chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), senior government sources have told The Gleaner. Mr. Williams is chairman of the Matrix Group of Companies and brother of former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senator...
Big ganja bust
A JOINT police/military operation in the upscale community of Smokey Vale in upper St.Andrew, yesterday netted an estimated 5,000 pounds of compressed ganja. Up to press time last night, police were investigating the find. Senior Superintendent of Police Carlton Wilson...
Mother, children to be reunited
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: Karen Elliot who was featured in yesterday's Gleaner, seems set to be reunited with her children as Food For the Poor is seeking to determine how it may assist the 37-year-old mother of five. The charity organisation's enquiries revolve around...
Beenie a wanted man
Resident Magistrate Owen Parkins yesterday issued a warrant for the immediate arrest of deejay Beenie Man after he failed to appear in the Civil Division of the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court. The deejay, whose real name is Moses Davis, was booked...
East Hanover seat to be declared tomorrow
WESTERN BUREAU: After more than four weeks of going back and forth between the Lucea Resident Magistrate's Court, the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court, Resident Magistrate for Hanover, George Burton, is expected to declare a winner for the Eastern Hanover seat ...
Day six - 'Dr Seshaiah's technique not up to int'l standard'
A SOUTH AFRICAN professor yesterday took government pathologist Dr. Ere Seshaiah to task, questioning his autopsy procedure and saying his report that Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was murdered is inaccurate. Professor Lorna Jean Martin, the state pathologist...
Tired of being afraid
A student of St. Hugh's High School in St. Andrew says she is frustrated with the level of crime and violence in the society and has called upon the authorities to save the society from this scourge. "I am tired of being afraid and anxious, wondering if I will be able...
Privy Council to rule on Chin case
The United Kingdom-based Privy Council is expected to make its ruling today in the case between Lascelles Chin, chief executive officer of the multimillion-dollar company Lasco Foods Ltd., and his ex-wife Audrey Chin.Following a Court of Appeal ruling,...
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