Grisly find in West Kingston - Cops suspect area is used as execution chamber
Almost 10 years after five bodies and two human skulls were discovered in a bushy area near the train line off Industrial Terrace, West Kingston, more human remains were found in the vicinity on Monday. "A complete skeleton of a human body...
Christie cites breaches at PETCOM, NSWMA
The Office of the Contractor General has found that a company owned by chairperson of the Petroleum Company of Jamaica (PETCOM), Barbara Clarke, benefited from contracts it awarded. In his report, tabled in Parliament yesterday...
'Jamaica will be embarrassed by failed beautification project'
The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce yesterday voiced doubts that the beautification programme announced by the Prime Minister last September would be completed ahead of Cricket World Cup 2007 and predicted...
The sugar doctor
Until the recent outbreak, malaria was not a disease readily associated with Jamaica, the last previous occurrence being in 1965. More surprising is that Dr. Bert Fraser-Reid, the first scientist to have synthesised the suspected toxin...
Scientists protest move of oversight body
Scientists are protesting Government's plan to relocate the National Commission on Science and Technology (NCST) from the Prime Minister's to the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce...
GLEANER/BILL JOHNSON POLL - Portia slips in poll
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's popularity has waned yet again, according to the latest Gleaner-commissoned Bill Johnson opinion poll. The poll, conducted between January 5 and 6, shows that Mrs. Simpson Miller fell a further...
Psychiatrists of different minds on murder suspect
Psychiatrist Dr. Arlene McGill testified yesterday that five weeks after 31-year-old security guard Jeffrey Perry allegedly stabbed to death three children at Kilancholly, St. Mary, she examined him and found that he was fit to plead.
Corporal succumbs to injuries
Shell-shocked. That's the best way to describe the reaction of Commandant Osmond Bromfield, head of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), on learning of the death of Special Corporal Charles Gordon yesterday.
'Crooks led reduction of Fiesta fees'
The Local Government Ministry is reporting that the former Mayor of Lucea, Lester Crooks, led the move for the Hanover Parish Council to reduce the building fees for the Fiesta Hotel. The revelation came one day after Mr. Crooks resigned...
Lyn suspects charged with murder
The two suspects who were being questioned in connection with the murder of Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn have been charged with murder. The suspects, Lennox Swaby and Kevin Powell, were charged yesterday afternoon....
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