Who wants Hylton dead? - Men in masks lurking around banker's home
Patrick Hylton, the group managing director of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) and president of the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA), has received death threats and is reportedly being stalked near his upper St. Andrew home by men wearing masks...
Hinds to hit ground running in Portmore
Mayor-elect of Portmore, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Keith Hinds, is still basking in the victory he scored over incumbent mayor of the municipality, George Lee, but says there won't be a prolonged celebration as there is urgent work to be done. Mr. Hinds told The Gleaner ...
Wife of slain cop still in mourning
The 10 months that have passed since the brutal slaying of Maxine's (not her real name) husband have not cushioned her pain. Maxine's husband was a police corporal who was murdered last February outside his house in Kingston while his family was inside....
Herb's body for viewing today
The body of late Jamaican sports icon, Herb McKenley, will today be on view at Calabar High School on Red Hills Road and at the National Arena. McKenley's body will be on view at his alma mater, Calabar High, between 8:00 a.m and 9:00 a.m., after which it will be transported...
Gun lands parolee back in jail
A prisoner who was paroled last year after serving 23 years for a gun murder is now back in prison serving 25 years' imprisonment for gun offences he committed while on parole. He is 46-year-old Carlton Linton, also called 'Russian', of Corn Piece Settlement...
Recovering 'Rosie' defends Rae Town
Relaxing at home yesterday, clad only in a green T-shirt, the injured Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor, Rosalie Hamilton, was still recuperating from the bullet wound she received two weeks prior to Wednesday's local government elections. The single bullet pierced...
Another Montego Bay cop killed - Fourth to be gunned down in eight days
WESTERN BUREAU: Sergeant Errol Brown's colleagues had made several attempts without success to contact him on his cellular phone. They subsequently went to the house he occupied at Second Street, Albion, in Montego Bay about 6:30 a.m. yesterday, where his bullet-riddled body...
PM backs press-friendly libel laws
Changes to Jamaica's libel and defamation laws will help to encourage good governance and accountability, participants heard at a seminar in St. Andrew yesterday. Prime Minister Bruce Golding, at the conference on press freedom and corruption prevention ...
Policeman on manslaughter charge to face murder trial instead
The manslaughter trial of police Constable Deon Carr was aborted on Tuesday after prosecutors took the decision that he should be indicted for murder. Carr is to be tried on February 18 in the Home Circuit Court for the murder of Constable Halkeith...
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