Stuck behind bars - Kern fails to post bail
Former People's National Party (PNP) state minister Kern Spencer, who was offered bail in the sum of $10 million on Wednesday, had to spend another night behind bars yesterday. He was arrested on Tuesday evening by detectives from the Organised Crime Investigation Division...
Buchanan surprised
KERN SPENCER may have withheld information from party president Portia Simpson Miller when she demanded a report from him and Phillip Paulwell on the Cuban light bulb project.Simpson Miller's demand for the report came after energy minister Clive Mullings revealed ...
Sex in schools a growing problem
Amid several incidents of violence and sexual perversion in the island's educational institutions, another videotape has surfaced which shows two students at a Jamaican high school involved in a sexual act. The amateur tape, which appears to have been recorded by another student...
Police chief guns for less lethal approach
Western Bureau: A reduced reliance on lethal force is one of the options to be pursued by Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin as he seeks to create a professional, corruption-free and citizen-focused police force, capable of reining in lawlessness....
Golding awaits report to make policy decision on ganja
Prime Minister Bruce Golding revealed Wednesday night that he was awaiting a report from the Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Ministry before making a decision with regard to the decriminalisation of ganja in the Jamaica. During Jamaica House Live - a monthly radio call-in programme...
Cops raid home of Spencer's mom
WESTERN BUREAU: The police were yesterday unwilling to reveal the focus of their search at the St Elizabeth residence of the mother of former State Minister Kern Spencer, who is at the centre of the Cuban light-bulb scandal. "We are making no more comment because the matter...
Ramble residents blast Golding's stance on cemetery
The Ramble Community Development Committee (CDC) in Hanover has expressed its disappointment with statements made by Prime Minister Bruce Golding with regards to approval of a burial site in the area. Golding, on Wednesday night during 'Jamaica House Live'...
NSWMA BOARD
The following persons were appointed late last year to the board of the National Solid Waste Management Authority shortly after the Jamaica Labour Party was successful in the September 3 general election.
Deejay freed of rape charge
A jury has freed 37-year-old musician and deejay, Vinton Scott, of Lucea, Hanover, of a rape charge. He was accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in Watson Taylor Park, Lucea, on the night of February 18, 2006.Evidence was given at the trial before Mr Justice Martin Gayle...
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