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Under-20 Girls earned respect, says Gilbert

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMRobert Bailey/Gleaner Writer

Assistant coach of Jamaica's Under-20 female footballers, Xavier Gilbert, says the team did well at the recent CONCACAF qualifiers in Trinidad and Tobago, despite their failure to qualify for this year's FIFA World Cup in France in August.Gilbert...

Editorial | Make political parties feel the pinch

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

It's the multibillion-dollar secret that everybody knows but few want to admit: Big business is a major funder of political parties. And that's an important platform from which civic-minded enterprises can leverage the transformation of Jamaica's...

Disco nights? Rocket Lab launches glinting sphere into orbit

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WELLINGTON(AP) :Look into the night sky at the right time and you might see what amounts to a giant disco ball shimmering and glinting back.The founder of the company that this week launched the first rocket into orbit from New Zealand said...

Horrible and inhumane conditions - Persons complain of appalling housing of detainees of state of emergency

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMAdrian Frater/News Editor

WESTERN BUREAU:The ongoing detention of some of the persons held by the security forces since the declaration of the state of public emergency in St James last Thursday, as well as the conditions under which they are being housed, is creating much...

No compensation, no more vote! - Tivoli residents issue ultimatum to Government

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMJason Cross/Gleaner Writer

Residents of Tivoli Gardens in west Kingston have threatened to stop voting in national elections if the Government fails to compensate them properly for atrocities committed against them in the 2010 incursion.During a protest in front of the...

King Evil’s son charged with double murder

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU:Kasheen Lewis, the 20-year-old son of slain St James top-flight gangster Omar 'King Evil' Lewis, has been charged with the gangland-style murder of two women who were shot and killed in the Catherine Hall community just under three...

Scientists successfully clone monkeys; are humans up next?

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

NEW YORK (AP):For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the same with humans.Since Dolly's birth in 1996,...

Gymnastics doctor sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LANSING, Michigan (AP):The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years under the guise of medical treatment was sentenced yesterday to 40 to 175 years in prison by a judge who proudly told him, "I just...

Fate of 35 police cars unknown - Used car contract fiasco deepens

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMErica Virtue/ Senior Gleaner Writer

Another dizzying round of questions by members of Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) on the contract fiasco regarding the 200 pre-owned police vehicles, which has left two government ministries and two agencies...

What is 'Tappa' worth?

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMRachid Parchment/Sports News Coordinator

Two members of the local football fraternity believe that the contract reportedly being offered to national senior men's football team head coach Theodore 'Tappa' Whitmore is an insult to his credentials.It is reported that Whitmore is reluctant to...

Former PAJ executives say they are entitled to benefits

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The Supreme Court, on November 30 last year, handed down judgments against Beverley Williamson and Richard Roberts, both former executives of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), who sought a declaration that discretionary retirement benefits under...

McKay calls for better security deployment at UWI

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

McKay Security director Jason McKay said that the University of the West Indies (UWI) could use better deployment strategies regarding its security personnel to prevent future armed robbery attempts on campus.His comments follow Tuesday afternoon's...

Medicanja going to market

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMNeville Graham

JSE CAPITAL MARKETS CONFERENCE Dr Henry Lowe is holding to the commitment to go public with his medical marijuana firm, Medicanja Limited. “We are coming to the market in a few weeks,” he said at the annual Investments and Capital...

Gas prices up $0.48 Thursday

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Gas prices are to go up by $0.48 effective tomorrow. The state-owned oil refinery Petrojam says E-10 87 will sell for $122.72 per litre and a litre of E-10 90 will sell for $125.55. Automotive diesel oil will go up by $0.30 per litre to sell for $...

'I meant promise' - Holness on Jamaicans sleeping with doors open

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has taken issue with those he says appear to be waiting for the government to fail at fighting crime and who mock his promise that Jamaicans would be able to sleep with their doors open under a Jamaica Labour Party...

Fit 4 Life | Breathe life into your fitness programme

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMMarvin Gordon

Think you've done it all in the gym? Getting bored? Or have you hit a plateau you can’t seem to beat? Try something new this year. Fitness programmes grow boring very quickly and lose effectiveness almost equally fast. To keep having fun...

Gov't commits $700m to combat frosty pod disease

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Agriculture Minister Karl Samuda has indicated that the government will be spending $700 million over the next two years to fight the frosty pod disease. Samuda told the House of Representatives yesterday that Cabinet gave approval last...

Gov't to ensure state of emergency detainees have adequate resources – Holness

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMJerome Reynolds

Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the government is moving to ensure that adequate resources are in place for detainees under the state of public emergency. Prime Minister Holness says he’s aware of complaints in the public domain and is...

'I just signed your death warrant', says judge at Ex-USA Olympic gymnastics doctor's sentencing

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

LANSING, Michigan (AP): The former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts for years was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison as the judge declared: "I just signed your death warrant."...

State of Emergency not affecting visitor bookings – Bartlett

Published:Wednesday | January 24, 2018 | 12:00 AM

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says the declaration of the state of public emergency in St James has not affected travel bookings to Jamaica. Speaking on the subject this morning at the quarterly press briefing hosted by Prime Minister...

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