DENVER (AP):Colorado made roughly US$2 million in marijuana taxes in January, state revenue officials reported Monday in the world's first accounting of the recreational pot business.The tax total reported by the state Department of Revenue indicates...
Mayor of Kingston and St Andrew, Angela Brown Burke, has said for now, the council would not be contemplating any increases for the new financial year, which starts in April.Brown Burke, who was speaking with The Gleaner following the Kingston...
Each year, charity organisation Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica pays for the release of several prisoners from the country's main penal institutions, and also makes significant donations to these facilities...
According to inside sources, as early as next Monday, the Council of the University of Technology (UTech) could come to a decision on the recommendations - put forward in a report from the Special Advisory Committee - for a number of changes...
WESTERN BUREAU: BASED ON data provided by renowned medical doctor, Professor Winston Davidson, who heads the Public Health and Health Technology department at the University of Technology, Jamaican women are dying in far...
A technocrat in the Ministry of Labour has signalled that engineers are becoming an extinct breed in Jamaica, while the demand for those with this qualification continues to grow at a rapid pace. Speaking at yesterday's...
After opting not to call Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) boss Gordon 'Butch' Stewart to give evidence, prosecutors in the billion-dollar ATL Pension Fund fraud trial yesterday made an application to have the statement of another key witness admitted...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE USUAL hustle and bustle in the town of Santa Cruz was heightened recently as Nestlé launched its 2014 season of 'Community Fest' events in the St Elizabeth township.
Supreme Court judge, Lennox Campbell, has asked the jury in the Vbyz Kartel murder trial to look at the text messages to see if they support the evidence of the prosecution's main witness.He made the request...
The date is set and the anticipation is riding high. The annual Actor Boy Awards are fast approaching. With just about a month left before the staging of the awards, organisers announced the nominees in each category at a brief ceremony on Monday evening.
With a prevalence rate of approximately 500 in every 100,000 Jamaicans who will be afflicted with the ailment, chronic kidney disease is a serious problem in Jamaica.In fact, according to Dr Adedamola Soyibo,...
THE EDITOR, Sir:It is with astonishment that I read the column of Cedric Brown in The Gleaner of March 11, 2014 titled 'Stop being petty over Goat Islands project'.What would drive this lawyer to casually dismiss the research of Anthony Chen, a...
Energy World International (EWI), the Hong Kong-based firm that won the bid to establish a gas-fired power plant in Jamaica, known as the 360MW project, now plans to split the project in two segments, with facilities in the parishes of St James ...
Let’s assume there is a God. What’s more, let’s assume he’s everything he’s cracked up to be — omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. Nothing misses Big Daddy, am I right?
The play, Dollyhouse, is a wonderful mix of Jamaica's favourite topics - sex, politics, power and betrayal, all coming together to create a hilarious comedy with the belly-cramping humour that only Oliver Samuels can produce....
THE EDITOR, Sir:When one sits back to really analyse the state of the Jamaican economy and how we got to where we are, it is enough to make any Jamaican, except political sycophants, break down and cry.And the simple truth which I am sure none of our...
THE EDITOR, Sir:The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) mussi tek people fi eediat with its desperate dramatics trying to bar Velma Hylton, QC, from the pending Tivoli commission of enquiry.This is almost a repeat of the 'Dudus' enquiry, where the JLP made a...
President of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), Brian Pengelley, says that despite efforts by Caricom to promote policy initiatives and programmes for the region's socio-economic development, regional integration efforts continue to create...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):A blistering knock from captain Darren Sammy led West Indies to a five-wicket win over England in the second T20 international at Kensington Over here yesterday.The win ensures West Indies have secured the three-match series...