Schooling tomorrow's criminal kingpins?
ULTRA VIOLENT and ubiquitous school gangs are the ugly underbelly of the public education system. Investigations by The Sunday Gleaner have revealed that gun-toting, knife-wielding and ganja-smoking teens are running well-organised crime...
GUNS AND BOOKS - Kingfish disrupting and dismantling gangs
ALMOST A year after Operation Kingfish was established by Government to target gangland crimes, Assistant Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, says the élite unit has had considerable success disrupting and dismantling some of the country's most...
If walls could talk
IF THE bathroom walls of our nation's high schools could talk, they would tell a telling tale of infamy among the island's students who are being sucked into a vacuum of gang violence.
Bruce vs who?
FOR SOME Jamaicans, Opposition leader Bruce Golding represents the country's greatest hope for a new beginning and a much-needed change. But for others, the thought of him some day leading the nation as prime minister is a rather scary...
From quiet resort to commercial hub
WESTERN BUREAU: ON SATURDAY May 1, 1981, Marlon Fraser was not among the thousands who gathered in Sam Sharpe Square to mark the historic declaration marking the birth of the western city.
Damage estimated at US$2.5-$5 billion
NEW YORK, (Reuters): HURRICANE RITA caused an estimated US$2.5-US$5 billion in insured losses in eastern Texas and western Louisiana, catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide said yesterday.
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