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ICD Group Chairman Joseph M. Matalon has been unanimously elected to a third term in office as president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). Matalon was re-elected at the PSOJ's council meeting on June 23 at the organisation's Hope Road offices...

Her great-great-grandmother had the longest reign in British history and she is four years short of the record. Strange coincidence as the story has come full circle because it was Queen Victoria, sovereign for 64 years, who 'liberated' us in 1838...

With the business community and civil society seemingly finding their voice during the imbroglio over the extradition request for alleged drug dealer Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, Jamaicans now appear convinced that they have solid advice for the...

PERMANENT SECRETARY in the Ministry of Justice, Robert Rainford, says he is awaiting a legal opinion from Solicitor General Douglas Leys to determine whether the jobs of five contract workers assigned to outgoing...

INFORMATION MINISTER Daryl Vaz on Wednesday indicated that the increase in the size of the Cabinet may have been influenced by "political considerations"...

Beleaguered but defiant, Sharon Hay-Webster, the member of parliament (MP) for South Central St Catherine, yesterday declared she was not daunted by a battering on her character by the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP)....

WITH THE Bruce Golding administration about to take the bell lap before the next general election, the new ministers who were yesterday sworn in during a ceremony at King's House have been told that they have little...

Information Minister Daryl Vaz is defending Cabinet's decision to approve an average $10 increase in the toll rates for two legs of Highway 2000, arguing the cost to motorists could have been far greater.Vaz, who was speaking atthe weekly post-Cabinet...

Jamaicans are split over the Government's decision to extend its borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the majority saying the state should tread carefully.A Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson national opinion poll has...

Karl Samuda, the veteran politician who rejected the energy and mining portfolio in the new-look Cabinet, is maintaining that while he has no remorse for his decision, his actions must not be viewed as a swipe at Prime Minister Bruce Golding...

Just over six in every 10 Jamaicans experienced a slide in their economic situation last year, with most persons having to budget more or cut down on their spending.With consumers facing higher prices for food, electricity, transport and several other...

Senator Dorothy Lightbourne has been dumped from her post as justice minister and attorney general, making her the biggest casualty of the long-anticipated reshuffle of the Bruce Golding Cabinet. Lightbourne, a major character in the Manatt-Dudus saga, had not been expected....