Suffering senior getting new home
A BROKEN-DOWN wooden shack with dirt floor is no place for any human being to live, let alone a senior citizen. However, that was the condition of the residence of 80-year-old Beatrice Powell, until the citizens of Waterloo, Santa Cruz, came to...

Cops probe case of reappearing gun
"The investigation is well-advanced," head of Internal Affairs, Deputy Superintendent Lloyd Haley, told The Gleaner yesterday. He said that on January 3, a firearm which belonged to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) went missing from the storeroom at the..

Mom gets 3 years for killing child
A 35-YEAR-OLD woman, who used a knife to kill her nine-year-old daughter was sentenced to three years in prison in the Clarendon Circuit Court on Thursday. Maxine Samuels, a domestic helper of Salt River, Clarendon, was convicted on the lesser charge...

Cane farmers angry with Gov't's reply to Hampden lease
THE ISLAND'S cane farmers and government are still at loggerheads over the closure of the Hampden Sugar Factory in Trelawny, and attempts by the All Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA) to get approval to lease the complex. Declaring that it..

Senior cops calm Bull Bay protesters
HEAD OF the Kingston Eastern Police Division, Superintendent Artice Brown-Getton, along with head of the Constabulary Communication Network Superintendent James Forbes and the top brass of the Police Federation had to intervene on Thursday to...