The stench lingered and flies maintained interest in the scene a day after the body of 35-year-old Stacy-Ann Smith was removed from her Portsmouth home in Portmore, St Catherine.When The Gleaner visited the area yesterday....

PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller says her Government will be providing assistance to the families of the two St Andrew College schoolboys who drowned in Portland last week.Simpson Miller, speaking on a motion...

THE GOVERNMENT has confirmed reports that bauxite mining firm, UC Rusal, has been taking some of its equipment out of the island and sending it to Guyana.However, Phillip Paulwell, the minister of science, technology, energy and mining, told the House...

North East Manchester Member of Parliament Audley Shaw has renewed his call for a rural-area school-bus system.Shaw, speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday, said the move would provide students with a safer means of being transported...

COMMISSIONER OF Police Owen Ellington wants strong provisions in the proposed anti-gang legislation to decisively tackle organised crime and gangs in Jamaica. Ellington indicated yesterday that the proposed law...

Close to 100 men and women were booted from the police force last year as efforts were intensified to rid the force of corrupt members....

A no-case submission was made yesterday by defence lawyers representing Leighton 'Livity' Coke, brother of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.Coke's lawyers are contending that he should not be called upon to answer charges ...

DEFEATED PARLIAMENTARY hopeful Ernest Smith has backed down from his bid to seek election to the St Ann Parish Council.Smith, a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), had lost out to Keith Walford of the People's...

WHILE NOTING the seriousness of the breach at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, Minister of National Security Peter Bunting will not comment on the circumstances that led to prisoners drinking alcohol and smoking weed...