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WESTERN BUREAU: The St James Parish Council had to issue a condemn notice on a two-storey building in downtown Montego Bay yesterday after a section of its balcony collapsed and fell on to one of the city's busiest...

THIRTY-NINE-year-old Andrew Holness is Jamaica's pick as the best man to replace Bruce Golding as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) now. At the same time, Peter Phillips, 61, is the person most Jamaicans see as best suited to lead the People's National Party...

MONTHS OF arduous negotiations and at times hard-line positions taken by both the Government and unions representing public-sector workers have finally ended with the Police Federation accepting the administration's offer to settle the seven per cent...

A tropical wave west of Jamaica will continue to influence weather conditions over the island for the next few days, causing cloudy skies and periods of showers and thunderstorms, according to the Meteorological Service....

BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders enter their third full working day yesterday aware of the need to implement new strategies that would make the integration movement more relevant and result...

HAMILTON, Bermuda, (CMC)Bermuda's lawmakers have doubled fines for illegal fishing to US$50,000 in an effort to protect the North Atlantic island's dwindling fish stocks.The House of Assembly last Friday passed amendments to the Fisheries Act...

A passion, along with determination, was the main contributor which pushed Everald Campbell for 38 years as an educator.Campbell was one of five retired teachers honoured during a function hosted by the St Anne's High School in Kingston last Friday....

HIS ADVENTURES in the murky waters of the local fisheries industry have been well reported since his murder last week Saturday. However, there is nothing unclear about Roderick 'Bunny' Francis impact as hundreds turned out to support his family and show...

There is widespread public support for the classification of the island's two major political parties as the "gangs of Gordon House". Nine in every 10 Jamaicans agree that the two major political parties, the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party...

WESTERN BUREAU: With 17-year-old Khajeel Mais' family still mourning his death at the hands of a BMW X5 driver who shot him last Friday night, the youngster's mentor, attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, is blaming...

Thirty-one-year-old Clara Graham, who was the only female graduate among the Year One welding class run by Operation Friendship, at the school-leaving ceremony on Thursday June 30, ...

Dr Christopher Charles Tufton, who on Wednesday took office as minister of industry, investment and commerce, says he enjoyed his four-year tenure as minister of agriculture and fisheries, where he earned a reputation as a hard worker and a man committed to Jamaican farmers.