HARDLEY A SURPRISE - Lewin new top cop
Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, the former Chief of Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), will become the new commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, confirming initial Gleaner reports that the ex-army man was favoured for the top post.
AIDS programme will be sustained, says Jamaican Prime Minister
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that the Global Fund grant which covers the cost of HIV/AIDS programmes, including antiretroviral drugs for persons living with the virus, will continue over the next five years.
Rapists on the run in St Catherine
The Old Harbour police in St. Catherine are now searching for a group of men who abducted and raped three females in the Bodles area yesterday morning.
Senate approves Trafigura probe
The Senate yesterday gave approval for the required ministerial order to be made permitting the Government to authorise Dutch investigators to conduct local inquiries in relation to the controversial Trafigura affair.
Correction and clarification
A report in the Financial Gleaner of November 30, said Cable and Wireless Jamaica made a profit of $2 at its financial year-end March 2007. The correct figure is $2 billion.
Man goes crazy in hospital bust-up - Woman injured in treatment room
A woman, who took her son to the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine early Friday morning to be treated for asthma, ended up in the emergency room herself after being attacked by a man said to be of unsound mind.
Jury selection no issue
The Court of Appeal has cleared coroner of Kingston and St. Andrew, Patrick Murphy, of a Supreme Court ruling that the method he employed in the jury selection process between 2004 and 2005 was flawed.
Sorrow abounds at ACP's death
As she moved slowly down the steps of the building where the Police Area Four is headquartered on West Street, downtown Kingston, tears welled up in the eyes of Diana Kameka, the wife of slain Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Gilbert Kameka.
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