Paul Barrington Dennis appointed Queen's Counsel
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-27 02:48:08 -0700 | political-news
He was admitted to practise at the Inner Bar of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court at a special sitting of the British Virgin Islands High Court on April 19. The ceremony was attended by family members and well-wishers from Jamaica....
Two charged in aftermath of MoBay raid
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-24 06:34:53 -0700 | political-news
Arrested and charged are 49-year-old Canadian national Allister Chase and 33-year-old Patrick Parkins of a Westgate Hill address. Chase, a sales representative by profession, was charged with possession of, dealing in and taking steps to export hash oil while Parkins,...
Ministry to strengthen ties with Jamaicans abroad
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-02 07:36:57 -0700 | political-news
This year's conference, which will be held under the theme 'A Nation on a Mission: Jamaica Diaspora Partnership for Development', is to be hosted in Montego Bay, St James, from June 16 to 19. "For three days, the comprehensive programme...
'Reveal stimulus plan for growth'
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-17 00:33:13 -0700 | political-news
Wednesday April 17, 2013 Businessman Garth Walker is hoping that there will be no new taxes announced during the 2013-14 Budget Debate, which begins tomorrow. He is also hoping that Minister of Finance and Planning Dr Peter Phillips, who will...
Dutch-deportee drama
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-13 23:17:33 -0700 | political-news
Attorneys-at-law Carolyn Reid-Cameron and Chukwuemeka Cameron have argued that Shurendy Quant was deported despite a Supreme Court order for a stay of execution. They contended that due process and the rule of law were not followed. But the police are...
Western Jamaica welcomes new legal aid clinic
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-07 02:48:07 -0700 | political-news
The Sunday Gleaner recently exposed the ghastly conditions under which the clinic, which was located at Orange Street was operating; despite unused government-owned office space a few blocks away. "This is a more suitable surroundings for our lawyers, litigants and...
Positive policing enhances tourism
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-01 00:00:20 -0700 | political-news
The success of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) visitor-security strategy has grabbed the attention of other tourism-dependent islands in the region. According to the officer in charge of the Tourism Liaison Unit, Superintendent Karina Powell-Hood, because of how advanced the...
Massive MoBay raid - Drugs, cash seized; Canadian national held in 11-hour operation
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-23 23:23:45 -0700 | political-news
We have seized a substantial amount of drugs and an undetermined sum of money," a police officer told The Gleaner . "One person has been taken into custody so far." United States operatives and the Jamaica Defence Force, targeted three...
Corporate Jamaica ready to work
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-23 09:28:54 -0700 | political-news
Administrator at the home, Jacinth Bonner, said a number of roofs to the cottages need repair as very often they would leak. "The rain comes in through the joinings in the roof, so we will be sealing those," she explained....
Rastas victimised ... again? Coral Gardens celebrations become a nightmare as 'cops' demand payment
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-19 03:10:00 -0700 | political-news
Coral Gardens celebrations become a nightmare as 'cops' demand payment Published: Sunday May 19, 2013 Erica Virtue, Senior Gleaner Writer Fifty years after the State used police officers to brutalise members of the Rastafarian faith in Coral Gardens, St James,...
Thieves jet off with $20m worth of airplane fuel
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-04-30 23:58:53 -0700 | political-news
The fuel, valued at $20 million, is owned by a consortium, including Jamaica Aircraft Refuelling Services (partnership between PetroJam and British Petroleum), Esso and Total. The fuel was stored in a fuel farm near the old domestic terminal to the...
Wheelchair druggist gets jail time... fined $1.3 million alongside two years mandatory
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-17 01:35:52 -0700 | political-news
The wheelchair-bound man who was arrested and charged for attempting to smuggle cocaine and ganja out of Jamaica via the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay, was handed a mandatory two years and four months sentence and fined $1.3 million...
Bartlett expresses concern over Ritz-Carlton sale
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-08 22:45:13 -0700 | political-news
He was responding to news that the five-diamond Montego Bay resort would lock shop on May 20, forcing 400 persons out of their jobs. The employees were told in a meeting with management yesterday morning that they would be made...
'Give us diamonds'
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-12 23:11:50 -0700 | political-news
In the ad, he declared the current haemorrhaging of millions of dollars in cost to the nation at both properties could be easily cauterised. "It's not complicated. Instead of losing $50 million a month, the Trelawny stadium should be turned...
Playa replaces Ritz with Park Hyatt
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Montego Bay :: Jamaica | updated 2013-05-12 23:11:49 -0700 | political-news
The Gleaner has learnt the Park Hyatt will step in the day The Ritz closes its doors next Monday, May 20, after 13 years in Jamaica. This will be the first Hyatt property to do business in Jamaica, a plus...
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