http://jamaica-gleaner.com/ The oldest and leading newspaper in Jamaica editor@gleanerjm.com (Garfield Grandison) roland.booth@gleanerjm.com (Roland Booth) en-us Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST 60 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST Newspapers Ryan Perry visited the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston yesterday with mixed emotions. He was happy he would finally be able to take home his baby daughter, but his heart was heavy with sadness as the mother of his child and love of his life... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead1.html Only days after Professor Errol Miller, chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), vowed that decisive action was being pursued in the aftermath of electoral... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead2.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead2.html Smith's chronicle Facebook Stacy-Ann Smith's friends and family took to Facebook to express shock at her unexpected demise with one of her friends from The Cayman Islands writing the following:"this is soooo hard to bleve (believe)...stacy aka sunshine... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead3.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead3.html The stench lingered and flies maintained interest in the scene a day after the body of 35-year-old Stacy-Ann Smith was removed from her Portsmouth home in Portmore, St Catherine.When The Gleaner visited the area yesterday.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead4.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead4.html PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller says her Government will be providing assistance to the families of the two St Andrew College schoolboys who drowned in Portland last week.Simpson Miller, speaking on a motion... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead5.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead5.html THE GOVERNMENT has confirmed reports that bauxite mining firm, UC Rusal, has been taking some of its equipment out of the island and sending it to Guyana.However, Phillip Paulwell, the minister of science, technology, energy and mining, told the House... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead6.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead6.html North East Manchester Member of Parliament Audley Shaw has renewed his call for a rural-area school-bus system.Shaw, speaking in the House of Representatives yesterday, said the move would provide students with a safer means of being transported... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead7.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead7.html COMMISSIONER OF Police Owen Ellington wants strong provisions in the proposed anti-gang legislation to decisively tackle organised crime and gangs in Jamaica. Ellington indicated yesterday that the proposed law... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead8.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead8.html Close to 100 men and women were booted from the police force last year as efforts were intensified to rid the force of corrupt members.... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead9.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead9.html A no-case submission was made yesterday by defence lawyers representing Leighton 'Livity' Coke, brother of former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.Coke's lawyers are contending that he should not be called upon to answer charges ... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead91.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead91.html DEFEATED PARLIAMENTARY hopeful Ernest Smith has backed down from his bid to seek election to the St Ann Parish Council.Smith, a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), had lost out to Keith Walford of the People's... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead92.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead92.html WHILE NOTING the seriousness of the breach at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre, Minister of National Security Peter Bunting will not comment on the circumstances that led to prisoners drinking alcohol and smoking weed... http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead93.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120208/lead/lead93.html