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The Ministry of Education is seeking to assure that there will be a smooth flow at primary schools today as the much-anticipated results of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) are set to be released.The GSAT was held over two days in March with...

After a 15-year court battle, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) has finally carried out its demolition of a facility at Auburn Court, South Avenue, in St Andrew. Last week, Kingston Mayor Desmond McKenzie announced at his monthly council meeting...

Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) chief Alexander Powell said the organisation is seeing the desired effects of the farmers' markets - plus a shift in who holds the...

Professional Jamaicans For Jamaica Inc (PJFJ), a non-profit organisation based overseas, announces its annual Esmie L. Walters Essay Competition for high school students for 2011.

Western Bureau:DRIVEN BY his father's passion to be the best and his love for family, 21 year-old Jamaica-born Robert Joseph Jr has dedicated his academic success to his father...

Government and Opposition are this week, set to wrangle in Parliament over another delay in the debate of the censure motion against former national security minister, Dr Peter Phillips.

Reputed crime boss Christopher 'Dudus' Coke is to have his day in a United States court on September 12.

Charles H. Dufour, the newly installed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston, has come to the office with a strong agenda to move the church forward.

AMID CALLS from some sections of the Jamaican diaspora for them to be given voting rights, chairman of the United States North East Region, Patrick Beckford, has reiterated his stance that this should not be so.Beckford, an...

TRADE UNION leaders are entering this weekend's series of meetings with public-sector workers highly confident that a government proposal will be accepted by its members even as some organisations have already began consultations.

MEMBERS OF the diaspora community have praised the fourth staging of the biennial Jamaican Diaspora Convention, saying for the first time it was more than a talk shop.

FAMILY MEMBERS of one-year-old Kerome Forrest who died a day after receiving vaccine at a clinic in Mocho, Clarendon, is struggling to come to grips with the painful tragedy.