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Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Just when it was looking like another ordinary day for a group of residents of an apartment complex at 111 Waltham Park Road in St Andrew, an unexpected blaze destroyed that notion, along with everything they owned....

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Lawyers representing attorney-at-law Harold Brady are seeking to have the case brought against him for breaching the Commissions of Enquiry Act thrown out. Brady figured highly in the hiring of US lobby firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips on behalf...

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Constituency Development Fund (CDF) is to cease funding holiday projects submitted by members of parliament for which no solid benefit will be achieved, according to Moveta Munroe, executive director of the unit...

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WHAT waS believed to be the head of 19-year-old Joeith Lynch, the Lauriston teenager who suffered the same fate as her 40-year-old mother at the hands of bloodthirsty gunmen carrying machetes, was fished yesterday...

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With another summer to go before the next general election is constitutionally due, the People's National Party (PNP) threw down the gauntlet yesterday as it brought the curtains down on its bus tour with repeated...

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The attorneys representing Patrick Powell, the businessman charged with the murder of 17-year-old Khajeel Mais, yesterday expressed disgust at what they claim was the discourtesy shown to them by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)....

Published:Friday | July 22, 2011 | 12:00 AM

History was created yesterday in the St Mary Circuit Court when a senior citizen who sexually molested his 50-year-old stepdaughter when she was four years old got a 12-month jail sentence for indecent assault....

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Cabinet has given the green light for an American firm which wants to establish a presence in Jamaica, providing cost-effective energy solutions.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

People's National Party President Portia Simpson Miller greets supporters during the launch of the party's motorcade in St Catherine yesterday.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Work under way to neutralise the deadly solution now leaking from a tank at the AUSJAM gold mining facility in Crawle, Clarendon, is expected to be completed by weekend.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is assuring worried merchants and consumers that adequate arrangements have been made for the importation of sugar to satisfy the domestic trade.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The police have opted to forego an identification parade for 50-year-old businessman Patrick Powell, who was yesterday charged with the murder of 17-year-old Kingston College student Khajeel Mais.

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A measure of hope has been restored for victims of the fire that destroyed several homes in the west Kingston community of Denham Town last Saturday, leaving losses estimated at more than $20 million....

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The JamaicaN Bar Association (JBA) will tomorrow host its annual banquet. Each year the members of the association recognise and honour persons from the judiciary and from the legal fraternity who have served in their profession with distinction and excellence...

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE INTERIM head of a CARICOM security body says a proposed project to facilitate the sharing of critical ballistics information among the Caribbean community could go far way in smashing criminal networks involved in transnational...

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The policeman who was reported to be the mastermind behind the theft of guns and ammunition from the police armoury was found guilty yesterday of illegal possession of 18 firearms and more than 9,000 rounds ...

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The relatively quiet community of Lauriston in Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been plunged into despair following gruesome acts two days apart.The residents are so fearful they refuse to speak. No one wants to be the next victim...

Published:Thursday | July 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was yesterday presented with 21 new patrol vehicles, courtesy of Supreme Ventures Limited (SVL), during a handover ceremony at the Police Commissioner's Office on Old Hope Road, St Andrew.According to Karl Angell,...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With the Government's decision to put a hold on the scrap-metal industry, two of the island's major utilities providers are hoping they will get a break from the theft which has become a part of their daily operations....

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's traditional sweetener is being married off to other products on the market, bringing back somewhat sour memories of the days of scarcity in the 1970s when just about every edible thing, and some that were...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TWO YEARS after the Government indicated its willingness to put an end to the monopoly of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS), the Bruce Golding administration is backing away from that position. Energy Minister Clive Mullings told the House of Representatives yesterday...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Independent Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster yesterday voted with Government members to secure the extension of a piece of legislation which gives the police power to arrest suspected criminals without...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

As the People's National Party (PNP) hits the road on its two-day near-islandwide political jaunt, its secretariat remains adamant that the extensive bus tour does not signal the official start of the party's...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

South West St Catherine Member of Parliament Everald Warmington yesterday accused House Leader Andrew Holness of carrying out instructions aimed at muzzling him."I am sick of this!" Warmington said, as his anger meter skyrocketed in the House of...

Published:Wednesday | July 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Despite claims that the temporary ban on the scrap-metal trade in Jamaica will adversely affect thousands of families, the Government has insisted that its first duty is to the national good.Dr Christopher...

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