Major JCF shake-up
A MAJOR reshuffle of senior police officers, which became public yesterday, has been linked to the latest efforts of the security forces to tackle soaring crime levels which have resulted in 875 murder so far this year. Reports yesterday revealed a...
Record US$17.5m payout after Ritz Carlton accident
A 43-YEAR-OLD American insurance executive who was paralysed in a diving accident at the Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort in Rose Hall, Jamaica last year settled a negligence lawsuit against the hotel this week in a Miami federal court for a whopping...
Cobb rejects criticisms of US - Says some strides made with efforts on guns
UNITED STATES Ambassador to Jamaica Sue Cobb has rejected criticism that her country was not doing enough to curb the flow of illegal guns from its shores to Jamaica. Speaking at The Gleaner's Editors' Forum this week, she conceded that...
EOJ to test fingerprint machines
THE ELECTORAL Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is expected to chose a single Parish Council division for the experiment with the Cogent fingerprinting system planned for the next Local Government election. The EOJ has confirmed that it will be using 40...
JUTC's Swedish consultants report not yet ready
TRANSPORT AND Works Minister Robert Pickersgill is yet to receive a report from the five Swedish consultants brought in to assess the operations of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) following a report that showed the state-owned bus company was...
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