Bolt on top - Olympian cops Gleaner's top award
Usain Bolt's trophy cabinet is getting awfully packed. After months of receiving national gold medals, honours and dozens of gifts and prizes, 'Lightning Bolt' took home another august award yesterday when he was named The Gleaner's Man of the Year 2008...

PNP pressures PM over Hydel land controversy
THE OPPOSTION People's National Party (PNP) has accused Prime Minister Bruce Golding of nepotism and undue personal interest in the purchase of lands at Ferry, St Catherine. Yesterday, the PNP charged that Golding's motivation for the land purchase...

Allegations are politically motivated, says Bennett
FOUNDER OF the Hydel Group of Schools and government senator, Hyacinth Bennett, has fired back at her detractors in the rapidly developing Ferry land saga. According to Bennett, the mounting allegations are politically motivated....

Men plead guilty to trafficking charges
Two elderly men who were the first to be arrested in Jamaica for trafficking in persons have pleaded guilty to the charge.They are 52-year-old woodcrafter Agon Stephens, and 54-year-old businessman and taxi operator Narcot Graham, both of Kingston...

Taxi men say hike in rape reports choking livelihood
Authorised taxi operators in the St Andrew capital, Half-Way Tree, say their source of livelihood is being stifled since recent reports that women are being abducted and raped, in some cases, by illegal taxi operators...

Government defends exemption decision
ONE DAY before the contractor general's deadline for the Information Minis-try to present details of its Olympic celebrations expenditure, the Government is defending its decision to exempt some services from the procurement guidelines...