A legal showdown is looming over a decision by Custos of Kingston Steadman Fuller to reject an application by controversial attorney Isat Buchanan to become a justice of the peace (JP). Buchanan was admitted to practise law in Jamaica in 2017,...
A Jamaican man believed to be living in the United States (US) illegally has admitted, in a federal court in Florida, that he was the person behind a shipment of high-powered rifles and pistols along with thousands of bullets that were intercepted...
Dr Peter Phillips will have a fight on his hands to hold on to the reins of the People’s National Party (PNP) after Central Manchester Member of Parliament Peter Bunting ended months of speculation yesterday by confirming that he will mount a...
Following stinging public criticisms about the conduct of the police and the conditions under which detainees were held in three states of emergency last year, the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) says it has seen “significant improvements” in...
A Westmoreland woman revealed to The Sunday Gleaner that she woke on the weekend to find that members of the security forces had taken over a section of her shop, but says they are welcomed to stay there for as long as she is alive. “I don’t know...
For the past three decades, Petal Brown says residents of Land Settlement, a housing scheme located in Anchovy, Portland, have been using stones to piece together some semblance of a roadway to get into and out of the community. The water pipe that...
Growing up in the gritty inner-city community of ‘Little Lane’, located off Maxfield Avenue, in St Andrew, Damion Crawford had an inkling from very early that his calling was to help lead a revolution for those who, like him, were at the lower end...
The thought of following her husband into the rough and tumble world of representational politics was completely alien to Ann-Marie Vaz. By her own admission, she was comfortable caring for her children, building a sound family structure, and being...
One in every five persons who support the legalisation of abortion in Jamaica believes that women should be allowed to terminate their pregnancy under any circumstances. That is according to the findings of the latest RJRGLEANER-commissioned Don...
