' Get the drug lords '- US Government wants Jamaica to go after the big traffickers
THE UNITED States Government says that while the Jamaican Government has taken steps to reduce drug trafficking here, it could do more to go after the really big drug smugglers. This view is expressed in the latest issue of the...
Plan to fast-track CSME
WESTERN BUREAU: BUSINESS LEADERS in the Caribbean have devised an 11-point action plan to fast-track implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). This plan is to have the CSME become a reality long...
Carla Seaga expecting
CARLA SEAGA, wife of Edward Seaga, the Jamaica Labour Party leader, is expecting a baby. Now four and a half months pregnant, Mrs. Seaga, 42, told The Gleaner she was ecstatic, and considers the pregnancy...
Lawyer sues over vacant post of Deputy Solicitor-General
IN AN unprecedented move, a lawyer in the Attorney-General's Department is suing members of the Public Service Commission over the vacant post of Deputy Solicitor-General from which he was reverted after acting...
Braeton Inquest resumes today
THE CORONER'S inquest into the killing of seven young men by the police at Braeton, south St. Catherine in March 2001, is to resume today following a two-week break occasioned by the sudden illness of...
Calm in Spaldings
TEMPERS REMAINED high yesterday in the normally quiet community of Spaldings, Clarendon, where civil disobedience erupted on Saturday resulting in the death of a 16-year- old boy, several policemen and civilians being injured, and the police station...
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