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Today's signing of an agreement over the seven per cent wage increase for public-sector workers for 2009-2010 to 2010-2011 has been put off, Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced yesterday.Golding said the deferment was to facilitate consultations...

TAMPA, Florida (AP): A federal judge sentenced Grammy-winning reggae singer Buju Banton to 10 years in prison yesterday, the lowest sentence legally allowed for his role in a large cocaine-trafficking deal in 2009. The 38-year-old Jamaican recording...

TWO JAMAICANS were among 58 people who have received Decorations of Bravery awards from David Johnston, governor general of Canada.A release from Johnston's office yesterday indicated that Wayne Reynolds and Jubal Daley, both of Negril,Westmoreland,...

THE REPORT of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) tabled last week in the House of Representatives sparked controversy during Tuesday's sitting, as members of parliament (MP) rejected final figures of expenditure...

COURTS JAMAICA will be awarding 44 scholarships valued at over $4.5 million to its customers and their children, who are at varying levels of study.Twenty-nine GSAT students will each receive $100,000, five tertiary students will be awarded $250,000...

WITH JAMAICA already weeks into the hurricane season, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emer-gency Management (ODPEM) has engaged Flow's business arm, Columbus Business Solutions, to provide a technological boost to its operations, particularly in...

INFORMATION MINISTER Daryl Vaz has dismissed claims that government contractor Y.P. Seaton funded Prime Minister Bruce Golding's recent bird-shooting vacation in Paraguay, arguing yesterday that the payment arrangement ...

THE BROADCASTING Commission of Jamaica (BCJ) on Tuesday indicated that laws to make the practice of payola a criminal offence could be on the books by next June.The BCJ crossed a major...

Grammy-winning reggae superstar Buju Banton is scheduled to learn the length of his prison term today.At the same time, the United States (US) Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida is remaining tight-lipped on...

Education Minister Andrew Holness is standing by his ministry's assessment of the 2011 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results, arguing that the process it used to determine that students have done better this year than last year is the same it has...

Reggae superstar Buju Banton will be barred from recording any new materials if he is sent to a United States (US) federal prison when he is sentenced in a Florida court tomorrow.However, Buju, whose real name is Mark Myrie, might not have to cut off...

Clinton arrives today - United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will today reaffirm her nation's commitment to the region when she visits Montego Bay, St James, to meet with her Caribbean counterparts.In a release last night...