Politics

WITH the ongoing standoff between security forces and gunmen in West Kingston, life in the city is still not back to normal. Travelling to work today people would have noticed levels of traffic still lower […] […]

FROM here on, Jamaica’s checkered political history will be chronologically categorised as AD – Anno Dudus (in the year of Dudus), BD (before Dudus) and AD (after Dudus). And 2010 will forever be regarded as […] […]

ISRAELI spy agency Mossad’s station chief in Australia has been expelled after a comprehensive investigation confirmed that Israel equipped a team of assassins with forged passports of Australians and other foreigners. Announcing the expulsion in […] […]

PAUL Beswick, one of the lawyers representing Tivoli Gardens strongman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, yesterday met with the charge d’affaires Isiah Parnell at the US Embassy in an effort to reach an agreement on the contentious […] […]

Men sweating as if they are working on construction sites muscled their way through sections of west Kingston, Jamaica this morning, reinforcing barricades to keep out members of the security forces. From one end of […] […]

Police are investigating claims that the bodies of 40 children were buried in a mass grave at an orphanage more than half a century ago. Pensioner Frank Hadley claimed the remains of the children, who […] […]

By Sandrea The article in the  Mercury newspaper ‘Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange’ sickens me, and should every decent human being. Thirty five years after the Vietnam war the human suffering continues.  […] […]

Says Gov’t has no authority to proceed against his client. THE lead attorney for Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher “Dudus” Coke said Friday he was baffled by Government’s decision to sanction extradition proceedings against his client, […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—In a gritty slum, they are preparing for war. They are building barricades of junked cars and sandbags, making Molotov cocktails and pitching barbed wire over power lines. They are waiting for the police, […] […]

An investigation has been launched after police officers failed to find the dead body of a man while searching his house. Police forced entry to George Catley’s home in Leigh after concerns were raised about his welfare but arranged for […] […]