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THIS morning Dexta Daps’s lawyer, Peter Champagnie QC, will again make a case to have his client released, in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew. The singjay has been detained at the Hunt’s Bay Police Station in St Andrew since Wednesday, April 8. He was not in court.Champagnie’s initial effort […]

AS a teenager in the city of Mutare in eastern Rhodesia, Fred Zindi heard little reggae music. Under the renegade State’s racist laws there was little black music on the radio.At the time of Bob Marley’s visit to his country in April 1980, Zindi was a 22-year-old university student. Like most of his countrymen, he […]

The group of 43 heartbroken Jamaican ship workers aboard the Marella Discovery 2 have now docked in Southampton in the United Kingdom, but with sunken spirits. “We are all mentally drained and frustrated,” one of them told The Gleaner late Saturday evening.

The University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) is being overly cautious about the circumstances that sent a senior doctor, and likely other healthcare workers on the front line of the COVID-19 fight, into quarantine, after a critically ill…

The Jamaican workers stranded overseas on-board the Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship have demanded answers from the Government after learning that the ban on incoming passengers was relaxed for a gravely ill patient from the Turks and Caicos Islands…

Angela Whitcomb* was sent home on Thursday, April 9 from her job at the Portmore, St Catherine, branch of Alorica, the business process outsourcing (BPO) firm at the centre of the sudden increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Jamaica. The…

The sometimes-vilified business process outsourcing (BPO) industry is a privileged sector in Jamaica because, for successive administrations over the past decade, it’s been pursued as a key economic solution to the political and social problem of…

Paula Llewellyn is acutely aware of how reluctant Jamaicans are when it comes to sharing information with the authorities. As the country’s chief prosecutor for the past decade, Llewellyn has had to navigate the ‘informa fi dead’ culture, which…

Jamaica, like most countries in the world, faces a time of deep uncertainty. Questions abound such as: how long will the spread of COVID-19 persist? How soon can normal business activity resume? Will there be a second wave of infection? As a small-…

In 2011, Bushman Sings the Bush Doctor: A Tribute to Peter Tosh, was produced in collaboration with Penthouse Productions and released by VP Records. The artiste, Bushman, agrees that the album, all 12 tracks – among them Bush Doctor, Legalise It,…