Plane crash! - Passengers hurt as US airliner goes careening out of Kingston airport
One hundred and forty-five passengers aboard American Airlines flight 331 from Miami narrowly missed death as the aircraft overran the Norman Manley International Airport runway in Kingston, ending inches away from the sea along the Port Royal main road last night...
Tax plan: Take Two - Gov't announces new package tonight - Opposition still to hit the streets
Jamaica will hear tonight which of the newly taxable items will be dropped as the Government prepares to backtrack on aspects of the highly controversial tax package announced last week by Finance Minister Audley Shaw, amid deafening public outcry...
Welcome rain wreaks havoc
A five-year-old girl was washed away by heavy rains in St Mary yesterday and is now presumed dead. Teemarie Barrett of Bays Mountain in St Mary was swept away by flood waters while she was completing a family errand about 2:45 p.m.According to police...
'Still unacceptable' - Simpson Miller says review of tax package must create equality
OPPOSITION Leader Portia Simpson Miller, whose party has called on the Golding administration to deliver to Jamaica a "more equitable and just (tax) package", has signalled that the People's National Party (PNP) would not accept a modified tax package...
Jamaicans expect the worst for 2010
A Gleaner team went on to Jamaica's streets, asking people what's next for them. How tough will it be for the average man next year, given the rough 12 months the country has undergone...
Gleaner sells Sangster's
Sangster's Book Stores Limited, owned and operated by The Gleaner Company Limited since 1984, has been sold to Jabulani Holdings Limited, the parent company of Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Ltd.Oliver Clarke, chairman and managing director...
IDT rules in favour of Windalco
Lawyers for the National Workers Union (NWU) are now going over a ruling of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) to uphold the termination of four employees of West Indies Aluminium Company (Windalco). President emeritus of the NWU, Clive Dobson...
Customs to relax rules for importation of cars, tyres
The Government has relaxed the rules for the importation of used cars and tyres in an effort to clear the backlog at the wharves.Almost 300 used cars and 6,000 used tyres have been sitting on the wharves for months because they were either damaged...
Double murder rocks Waterford
The troubled Portmore community of Wind Way in Waterford, St Catherine, is still reeling from yesterday's brutal gun slaying of a man and his wife at their home.The double murder has now pushed the country's staggering homicide ...
Accident claims life of cop
WESTERN BUREAU: The Black River police in St Elizabeth are mourning the death of a colleague who died in a motor vehicle accident along the Goshen main road yesterday morning. Constable David Benloss died shortly after 6:15 a.m.
Ballistic machine back in use next week - JCF
The police High Command has sought to assure that the Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS) machine will be fully up and running next week.At the same time, the high command is stressing that the machine...