The Crown closed its case yesterday after calling 17 witnesses at the trial of 26-year-old labourer Sheldon Pusey, who is charged with the murder of 64-year-old Ambassador Peter King. Defence lawyer Berry Bryan will be making submissions today in the

Valentine's Day is a special time to spend with your mate.The economic crunch has caused many to cut costs in all directions. If you feel the need to give a gift, the best way to make it truly memorable is

Leaders must lead and lead by example," says Dalbert Laing, recent recipient of The Gleaner's Silver Pen award.Laing was presented with his award at the newspaper's North Street office yesterday by The Gleaner's managing editor, Jenni Campbell....

Western Bureau:Despite the ominous clouds hanging over the bauxite sector, Prime Minister Bruce Golding says there is still a silver lining and is urging players in the sector to prepare themselves to embrace a rebound...

CHINA AND Jamaica yesterday signed several cooperative agreements and letters of exchange valued in excess of J$10 billion on day two of Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping's visit to the island. Among the agreements signed at Jamaica House yesterday...

THE BUSINESSES of Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire who has popularised Twenty20 cricket in the Caribbean, are now being probed by United States financial investigators.Regulators are investigating an investment firm and Stanford's Caribbean bank...

Telecommunications service provider Claro is under more scrutiny today as the Bruce Golding administration's man in charge of local government, Robert Montague, has ordered a probe into its erection of cellular towers. Local government officials...

WESTERN BUREAU: MEMBERS OF the Jamaica Constabulary Force are incensed at remarks made on Tuesday by attorney-at-law and South West St Ann Member of Parliament (MP) Ernest Smith. The MP had made stinging comments about the lawmen in Parliament, saying

Jamaica, along with six other Caribbean islands, is set to embark on a yearlong study which seeks to identify the cause of some food-borne diseases that continue to plague the region and other parts of the globe. The Jamaica Burden

Anonymously forwarded emails linking the Jamaica Labour Party's narrow 2007 general election victory to massive funding from embattled investment banker David Smith and his floundering investment scheme, Olint, have been creating a firestorm in cyberspace...

On February 13, the President of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, begins two-day official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran.It is expected that the leaders of Turkmenistan and Iran will discuss the issues of bilateral cooperation in traditional fields of Turkmen-Iranian

My how the mighty have fallen. Just months ago, China was the envy of the investing world. Funds tracking that country posted 50% returns in 2006 and 2007. But as if on cue, when the torch went out at last

Prices are sharply lower, but willing, well-financed buyers are few.Right now such a statement could easily describe the market for houses, cars, art, computers -- even paid sex. But I'm referring to the biggest-ticket purchases of them all: entire companies.

Associated Press - February 13, 2009 2:05 PM ET PHOENIX (AP) - Michael Jordan, John Stockton and David Robinson are among 16 finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Chinese shares staged a strong rebound Friday from slight losses over the previous two days' trading, on the reported government stimulus plan involving the telecommunications and electronics sectors. The Shanghai Composite Index advanced 3.23 percent, or 72.7 points, to close

The handover ceremony to mark China's first batch of minesweeping equipment aid to Egypt was recently held in Egypt's Ministry of International Cooperation, marking a substantial step forward in China and Egypt's cooperation in the area of minesweeping. The minesweeping

According to the latest statistics from the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, foreign companies set up 83 new economic institution headquarters in Shanghai in 2008. As of the end of 2008, foreign companies had set up a total of 676

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) monitoring network operated by the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) has begun tracking the debris created in the US-Russian satellite collision, Zhao Changyin, a researcher at the PMO, announced on February 12. Zhao said the

The Dawning PHPC100, the first high-performance personal computer independently-developed in China, was officially launched in the Hi-tech Green Industry Base of Huayuan Software Park under the Tianjin Hi-tech Industry Park (THIP). To date, orders for the PHPC100 have gradually reached

The World Bank (WB) China Office announced in Beijing on Friday the approval of a 710 million U.S. dollars loan for the reconstruction of areas devastated by the 8.0- magnitude earthquake that shook China last May. Sichuan and Gansu, the