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ACCUSING THE People's National Party (PNP) of carrying out a campaign to derail Chinese investments amounting to more than US$1 billion in Jamaica, the Bruce Golding-led administration says thousands of jobs are now under threat as a result...

The Government is putting its weight behind industry, investment and commerce minister Dr Christopher Tufton, who is facing a backlash in the wake of the decision to indefinitely close the scrap metal industry....

D'Angelo Young and Dayne Lawson have been inseparable friends since childhood and not even death could separate them. Yesterday the two perished in a fiery motor vehicle accident in St Andrew. D'Angelo, 22, who was on holiday from Barry University in Florida, United States...

WESTERN BUREAU:International dancehall artiste Mavado is scheduled to appear in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate Court on August 8 to answer criminal charges laid against him, following an incident in which two men were...

Douglas Orane has given Jamaica a 50 per cent average for just how well it has been following through on task force and committee recommendations, spanning political, social and economic spectrums...

THE JAMAICA Environment Trust (JET) yesterday said it is pleased with the successful outcome of the enforcement action taken by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) with regard to breaches to the Beach Control Act ( BCA) in Blue...

OCHO RIOS, St Ann: THE CARIBBEAN Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (CAPSS) completed a successful week-long conference last Friday at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa in Ocho Rios, emerging with a renewed sense of purpose at making a greater impact...

Former Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Karl Samuda has expressed disappointment at the Government's decision to impose an indefinite ban on scrap metal exports, an industry with which he...

Residents of Bedward Gardens in east rural St Andrew are on edge following the beheading of a man in the community on Saturday and, based on recent history, they have good reason to be afraid....

WESTERN BUREAU: Mayor of Montego Bay, Charles Sinclair, is moving to rid the streets of the western city of the growing number of stray dogs which are posing a danger to residents.According to Sinclair, the dogs are...

Political Ombudsman and chairman of the Peace Management Initiative (PMI), Herro Blair, is condemning politicians who would seek to use the gruesome beheadings of Jamaicans - a wave that has gripped the nation...

REVELATIONS that China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) was implicated in a major bribery scandal in Bangladesh have raised questions about the transport and works ministry's claims that it had done thorough due diligence on the company before...