GLEANER EDITORS' FORUM - Commerce graces Grants Pen
PROPERTY VALUES are on the rise and businesses are looking up in the once volatile St. Andrew community of Grants Pen. Delivery trucks which had stopped transporting goods to the area, are rolling through the streets again.
Flankers cops freed
A 12-MEMBER jury deliberated for almost three hours yesterday before freeing the four policemen who were charged with the murder of two senior citizens in Flankers, St. James, on October 25, 2003.
Electorial Office of Jamaica (EOJ) on election alert
THE ELECTORAL Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has been placed on high alert in preparation for parish council or general elections. Director of Elections Danville Walker says the EOJ was about to mobilise the processes that it used in the 2002...
'He asked me to provide a false alibi' - Man testifies against prime suspect accused of killing Jamaicans in UK
LONDON, England: A FORMER associate of 23-year-old Joel Smith, who is on trial for the double murder of Jamaicans, seven-year-old Toni-Ann Byfield and Bertram Byfield, thought to be her father at the time of her death...
Senate rejects cement probe
THE SENATE yesterday rejected a private member's motion brought by the Opposition to appoint a Joint Select Committee of Parliament to examine the cement crisis. The rejection of the motion brought by Opposition Senator, Shirley Williams...
Air carriers land cricket contract
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): THE MAJOR air carriers based in the Caribbean have landed a major contract for the 2007 Cricket World Cup to be played in the region. The consortium of Caribbean Star, BWIA West Indies Airlines...
Secondary Students' Council workshop at UWI
IT'S SUMMER and schools are out. But for more than 80 secondary level students, the next week will mean some serious brain-rocking. The students, all members of the National Secondary School Students' Council, represent the 'creme de la creme'...
190,000 drug abusers in need of professional help
ROUGHLY 190,000 Jamaicans, who are abusers of, or addicted to legal and illicit drugs, are in need of professional help to either drop the habit or bring it under control according to Michael Tucker, executive director of the National Drug Abuse Council..
Deacon returns to court today
THE FORMER deacon of the Dayton Avenue church and his co-accused in the sexual assault case against a 13-year-old schoolgirl return to the Half-Way Tree Resident Magistrate's Court today.
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