Cops batter cop in Jamaica - Commissioner orders probe
JAMAICAN Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas is eagerly awaiting a report from the Professional Standards Branch which has been instructed to probe the brutal beating of a 48-year-old police corporal by police personnel...
News across Jamaica
A JAMAICAN lawyer who made a habeas corpus application for his client to be released or charged before the court told Resident Magistrate Carol Edwards that he served a writ on the Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas, on Wednesday...
King Lara rules again - 'It was just around the corner'
IN THE face of a poor run of scores compounded by questionable umpiring decisions, Brian Lara kept faith in his own ability and trusted that a personal work ethic would inevitably bring the desired results.
Editorial - A salutary warning
THE INVESTIGATIONS into the reported beating by policemen of Corporal Grantly Waite are continuing but there seems to be enough credible independent accounts that he was savagely battered by officers of the law during a fracas at a police station...
Jamaican criminals should be 'hanged, guillotined or lethally injected'
THE EDITOR, Sir: THE UPSURGE in crime and violence in Jamaica has gone way beyond distasteful and disgusting. On the front page of The Gleaner dated November 24, 2005, our Finance & Planning Minister Dr. Omar Davies called on the PIOJ to provide...
Grand Christmas market in Jamaica
THE IMMACULATE Conception High School family will be hosting its second year of art, craft, home and garden exhibition. This year's exhibition titled 'Grand Christmas Market' will span two days, Saturday and Sunday, December 3 and 4, 2005, respectively,.
A Jamaican biblical guide to wealth
A JAMAICAN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT, Wilfred M. McKenley, last month published a volume aimed at helping Christians and non-Christians attain financial prosperity.
Providing support for medical research in Jamaica
"WHEN WE host our banquets, we don't do so for a splash, we do so to actually raise funds," says chairman of the Jamaica Medical Foundation (JMF) Oliver Jones.