Not just rooms - Cricket fans to be wined, dined and wooed
LOCAL HOTELIERS and other tourism interests are planning to roll out more than just warm beds to some 20,000 cricket fans expected to share the island with Jamaica's regular crop of tourists during the ICC Cricket World Cup West...
'Blood Lane' - Guns, drugs, deportees and a cry for help
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER BEING relatively calm within recent months, Montego Bay's volatile Felicity Crescent, popularly known as Blood Lane, was propelled back into the news this week with the western city's first triple murder since the start of the...
Booted from the lands of opportunity... - Deportees a criminal link
WHILE FEWER persons are being deported to Jamaica from the United States, England and Canada, the concern about deportee involvement in criminal activities remains high.
Florida judge calls for tougher crime fight in Ja
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida: A FLORIDA circuit judge is advising Jamaica to adopt a tougher policy on crime in order to begin reversing the country's soaring murder rate and other crimes.
JLP councillor threatens legal action against his party
SPANISH TOWN, ST. CATHERINE: JAMAICA LABOUR Party Councillor for the Church Pen division in St. Catherine, Gerval Weir, is an angry man. He is vexed because he believes the two contenders for the post of councillor for the division have...
It's 'Christmas' for PNP delegates
REPORTS REACHING The Sunday Gleaner are that lots of inducements in cash or kind are being offered to People's National Party (PNP) delegates to buy their support. PNP sources, who ask for anonymity, say cash inducements as high as $70,000 have been...
Omar: No rum bar - Mrs Davies takes 'prosperity' to the street
"MRS. DAVIES isn't a rum bar kind of person," the campaign worker reassured The Sunday Gleaner news team awaiting a long day of politics following the candidate's wife on a road trip to meet party delegates in Portland on Tuesday.
Book ship makes fifth visit to Kgn Harbour
FEW WOULD have imagined while passing Carib Cement's Rockfort Port yesterday morning that the hundreds of people patiently lined up outside for several hours, were waiting not for a concert, or even free food, but instead for books!
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