Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Friday

$40m award - Gov't told it must pay damages to man crippled in cop shooting

Government has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay $40 million in damages to a 20-year-old man who was shot in the back by a policeman.

Negative view of community colleges changing

A perception that community colleges are inferior to other institutions of higher learning is changing, educators told a Gleaner Editors' Forum yesterday.

E10 supply hits snag

The Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA) is calling on the Government and Petrojam to do whatever is necessary to rectify the current shortage of the recently launched E10 gasolene.A release from the JGRA secretariat yesterday stated that the...

MoBay lotto scam mastermind shot dead

WESTERN BUREAU: Ywo Morle, the alleged mastermind behind the infamous lottery scam in Montego Bay, St James, was shot and killed at Irwin in the parish yesterday.Morle, who was answering multiple charges of fraud, and under the Proceeds of Crime Act, was...

JUTC stands by Sangster

Chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) Robin Levy yesterday declared the board's commitment to embattled acting managing director Bindley Sangster.

Local dealers not overly concerned as Big Three car manufacturers gasp

While Detroit's Big Three - General Motors (GM, Ford and Chrysler) - wait on tenterhooks for their multibillion-dollar bailout plan to pass Congress, local dealer GM Challenger does not think the events in the United States will...

Holness defends absorption of transformation team

Education Minister Andrew Holness is defending governments decision to absorb aspects of the Education Transformation Team (ETT) into the Ministry of Education, saying it was the prudent thing to do.The ETT was established in 2005 to lead the...

Global financial crisis won't affect ECU funding to Ja

Despite the worsening global financial meltdown, the European Commission (ECU) to Jamaica has given its assurance that it will not reduce its contributions to the Jamaican Government, made through its budgetary support...

Golding bats for Rio Group

Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Wednesday called for nations of Latin America and the Caribbean to allow the Rio Group to become an institution to lobby for development in the region.He was speaking at the Summit of Latin America and the Caribbean on...

Bar Ass'n warns Gov't of constitutional breach

Members of the Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) have issued a warning to Government that they are in opposition to any constitutional amendment that would reverse the five-year rule over death penalty cases.

Mother, son held in drug find

A female employee of the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and her son are now in police custody facing possible drug charges.The woman was held on Wednesday after a quantity of a substance believed to be cocaine was found in her upper St...

JEA lauds PM's financial aid plan

The Jamaica Exporters' Association (JEA) has joined others in the private, small and medium business sectors in commending the Government for formulating a package to mitigate against further fallout in the economy. On Sunday, Prime Minister Bruce...