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THIRD-TERM Member of Parliament Sharon Hay-Webster has bashed the People's National Party (PNP), declaring that it was not allowing her due process in her...

SURPRISED! THAT was what Jamaica-born Yonnicka Smith felt when she found out that she was the 2011 symbolic degree recipient for academic excellence from the School of Health Professions at the Long Island University ...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny: USERS OF the Falmouth to Wakefield roadway in Trelawny, which was the scene of two roadblocks to protests against its poor condition, are to get a respite, as temporary patching is currently under way.Thirteen million dollars is being...

The United States Embassy in Kingston has finally responded to Prime Minister Bruce Golding's allegation that its officials were, among other things, "belligerent and aggressive" in diplomatic talks relating to the extradition request for accused drug...

Concerns have been quite properly raised about the effects on competition - and on consumers - of the announced buyout of Claro Jamaica by Digicel. When the Government of the day moved to break the Cable & Wireless monopoly and to open up ...

The United States (US) Department of State has recommended that the Jamaican Government bring the penalties for human trafficking in line with more serious criminal offences.The proposal was contained in the State Department's 2011 Trafficking in...

The three public-sector groups which most recently agreed to the Government's latest wage-increase offer have opted to delay signing as they express solidarity with the Police Federation.During a joint press conference yesterday, the Jamaica Teachers'...

THE OPPOSITION People's National Party (PNP) is reportedly readying its electoral machinery in South Central St Catherine in anticipation of a possible by-election in the constituency. It has remained silent, however...

WESTERN BUREAU: HEAD BOY, Rhyan Strachan, and Janelle Chambers, head girl, emerged as the top performers in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) for Chetwood Memorial Primary in Montego Bay, getting identical averages...

EDUCATION MINISTER Andrew Holness yesterday said the Government would be instituting a national school-leaving certificate which would set minimum standards for graduation from secondary schools. Holness, who was guest...

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller says the Government owes the people of Jamaica an explanation about the country's standing in relation to two quarterly performance tests under the agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....

WITH THREE kidnappings taking place in the space of seven days recently, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has sent a strong warning to criminals not to attempt the introduction of that sort of crime to the country."...