Kern grilled - Police question former junior minister about Cuban project
AFTER MORE than two hours of interrogation by Fraud Squad detectives yesterday, Kern Spencer, the former junior minister in the previous People's National Party (PNP) administration, emerged with a half pack of Oreo cookies in his hand and a peach-flavoured Tampico soda....
From light bulbs to dark days
It started as a project designed to save the country millions of dollars while providing free energy-saving bulbs to thousands of Jamaicans. It ended in controversy with millions of dollars spent under questionable circumstances, thousands of bulbs unaccounted for and several questions...
Trafigura ghost still haunts People's National Party (PNP) - Investigators from Netherlands probing the $31 million will be back
The Trafigura scandal might be dead but it is far from buried and its ghost is continuing to haunt the Opposition People's National Party (PNP). The Gleaner has confirmed that investigators from the Netherlands who are probing the $31-million donation to the PNP by the Dutch...
'I have done 1,000' - Retired doc calls for Church to stay out of abortion discussion
A retired gynaecologist and former chairman of the National Family Planning Board, who said he has conducted at least 1,000 abortions in Jamaica, is calling for the Church to stop interfering in the Government's consideration of whether such procedures should be made legal....
Abortion law outdated, says lawyer
Noted attorney-at-law Margarette Macaulay is claiming that Jamaica's abortion law is extremely confusing and outdated. Macaulay told The Gleaner yesterday that, while abortion is deemed illegal in Jamaica, there is some amount of contradiction as a ministerial policy formulated ...
National Water Commission (NWC) to probe Yallahs contamination claim
The National Water Commission (NWC) is to launch an investigation into whether its supply of potable water to some households in the Corporate Area is being contaminated by unscrupulous persons illegally tapping into the Yallahs pipeline....
January murders down 8%
Statistics released by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have revealed that there was an eight per cent decrease in murders recorded in January when compared to the corresponding period last year.One hundred and thirty-seven Jamaicans had their lives...
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