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The European Union (EU) has millions of dollars in grant funds waiting for requests from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) dealing with human rights and conflict resolution.Under its crime-management programme...

MEMBERS OF the public are being urged to advise the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) of any instance in which persons are detained by the police longer then three days without charge....

IN LIGHT of recent reports that five New York-based nursing schools have been accused of ripping off hundreds of Caribbean students to the tune of US$6 million, and granting them bogus certification...

THE PUBLIC-education sector is feeling the effect of a critical shortage of registered nurses. However, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Audrey Sewell, said steps are being taken to address the problem...

A bail application is to be made on Friday for Patrick Powell, the businessman charged with the murder of 17-year-old Kingston College student Khajeel Mais. Mais was shot dead on the night of July 1 when the driver of a BMW...

Parliament's decision to extend interim legislation to allow police to detain suspects for an extended period should be reconsidered.IF STATISTICS provided by Opposition spokesman on national security, Peter Bunting during a debate in the lower house...

Opposition spokesman on national security, Peter Bunting, has expressed outrage and condemnation at the fourth beheading in the island in just over a week and has noted that this is developing into "a worrying trend"...

Buoyed by what it said was a massive showing of People's National Party (PNP) supporters in Mandeville last Thursday night for the culmination meeting of its two-day bus tour, and heartened by an even 'better showing' of its finances compared to last year...

The People's National Party (PNP) has labelled Delano Seiveright, president of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) youth affiliate Generation 2000 (G2K), as "incompetent" following his claim last Monday, of media bias against the ruling party.

Two suspected murderers are among four men who yesterday morning escaped from the Whithorn Police Station in Westmoreland.Up to late yesterday, the police were continuing their search for the men who managed to break out of the police lock-up....

Less than a week after a pit bull mauled a senior citizen to death, the Kingston and St Andrew (KSA) Public Health...

Paul Sailah, owner of the Ausjam mining plant in Clarendon says he is uncertain whether he will restart business in Jamaica given the recent controversy over its operations.