Jamaica Gleaner - Lead Stories - Friday

Dudus faces fate

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, once the most feared underworld enforcer in Jamaica, is to appear in a United States (US) court today faced with the prospect of spending more than 20 years in prison. Since pleading guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges...

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'Foxy Brown' to run in Tivoli

She was not the choice of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) so Deborah 'Foxy Brown' Golding, the woman who mothered the children of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke's slain brother, Mark Anthony 'Jah T' Coke, has stepped...

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Have mercy on 'Presi'

From their community in Kingston's west end, scores of Tivoli Gardens residents made an impassioned plea to a United States district judge in New York on behalf of confessed drug lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...

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Cops brace for protest

The police in west Kingston have revealed that a number of security measures have been put in place in "specific areas" to thwart any possible threats arising from today's sentencing of admitted drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke in a United States court. ...

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Seaga: Focus on early childhood education

Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga is calling for greater efforts to be placed on early-childhood education, saying it would contribute to an improved nation.Alluding to figures that reveal that only a third...

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Allman Town cries for 'Ms Girly'

Tears are still flowing from residents of Allman Town as they try to accept that 'Ms Girly' is gone. Lealith Cain, known to everyone as 'Ms Girly' or 'Girly Cain', was the sole fatality in the fire that...

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Calls for Williams' resignation put on pause

VOCIFEROUS CALLS for the resignation of Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) boss, Terrence Williams, by rank-and-file members of the police force and its auxiliaries, have been put on hold, at least for now...

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Jamaicans invited to mourn with Belgium

A condolence book is to be opened at the Embassy of Belgium at 10 Millsborough Crescent in St Andrew for persons who wish to join in mourning the deaths of more than two dozen people killed in a tragic bus accident in Switzerland earlier this week...