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United States prosecutors have asked the court to throw the book at former Olint boss David Smith when he is sentenced on Thursday. Lawyers representing Smith, the mastermind behind the Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than US$220 million, had written to the court...

CHIEF EDUCATION Officer in the Ministry of Education, Grace McLean, has urged young people to take risks in their search for educational opportunities and career paths."Your whole life...

Vincent Morrison, president of the National Workers' Union (NWU), says the organisation he leads would support the establishment of a contributory pension scheme in the public sector."In spite of the difficulties...

Despite remedial efforts to improve student performance, an increasing number of schools that are deemed to be failing have been referred to the National Education Inspectorate (NEI) for in-depth evaluation...

A team from CL Environmental Company, the consultants handing the neutralisation of cyanide at the Ausjam gold-mining facility in Crawle, Clarendon, will return to the site today to complete that process. This was deemed...

Scores of people from the Christian community marched through sections of Lauriston, St Catherine, yesterday to give hope to residents crippled by fear. The group started at the Shiloh Apostolic Church....

The Government has started its search for an independent body to oversee the implementation of the controversial Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP).The request for proposal (RFP) which was carried...

A drive-by shooting in Kingston over the weekend has left two people dead and another six nursing gunshot wounds.Dead are 33-year-old Kino Mitchell, otherwise called 'Ninja' of Tower Street, and 17-year-old Romario Myers of Stephen Lane...

SIMMERING TURMOIL in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) bubbled over late last week as Karl Samuda stopped short of asserting that a segment of the leadership may be out to get him.

Forty-one-year oldAnita Pink has lost her home. But the self-made businesswoman who defaulted on her $170,000-per-month mortgage after falling on hard times in 2009 is not fighting the foreclosure. She just wants the financial institution that gave her the $14.9 million mortgage to purchase the property four years ago to sell the house for what it is worth.

A key player in the multimillion-dollar scrap-metal trade is charging that the Government needs to turn the searchlight on its agencies, claiming that no piece of stolen metal can be exported without collusion in the Customs Department.

THERE WAS a flurry of claims and counterclaims at the senior level of the party on Friday, that veteran politician Karl Samuda had resigned as campaign chairman, the only post he now holds in the JLP.