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Nine charities benefited from the generosity of the Latin American Women's Club on Tuesday to the tune of $480,000. Representatives from the SOS Stony Hill Village, Missionaries of the Poor, Missionaries of the Poor AIDS Clinic, St Monica's Lepers Home...

The United States Embassy in The Bahamas expressed the view in 2009 that The Bahamas was not seriously interested in forming a federation with the Turks and Caicos...

THE JAMAICAN Government's decision to appoint Danville Walker to head the Customs Department in May 2008 received the thumbs up from United States Embassy officials, who had high praises for the outspoken public official....

MANHATTAN, New York: AS THE Caribbean braces for more contraction in arrivals from the United Kingdom, one of Grenada's finest hospitality practitioners, Sir Royston Hopkin, has called on the region's heads...

The Transport Authority on Monday paid the balance of $4.8 million owing to St Catherine businessman Aston Burey when the bailiff went to its offices to seize goods and chattels to recover the money.Last week Friday...

Several former police officers attached to the National Intelligence Bureau of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), who were reassigned to new posts a few weeks ago, are now questioning the legality of polygraph testing, blaming it for their...

Worried about a 2009 decision by the government of Haiti to remove the visa requirements for Chinese visitors to the island, the United States turned to the government of Jamaica for help....

OPPOSITION SENATOR K.D.Knight says information minister Daryl Vaz does not seem to understand the controversy surrounding the $800 million to be spent on just over half-a-mile of roadway in the North East Manchester constituency of finance minister Audley Shaw.

The fourth biennial Diaspora Convention gets under way today, with some participants suggesting that the focus be placed on critical issues such as crime and health care. Despite a sharp decline in major crimes in recent...

WESTERN BUREAU:The upgraded Old Hospital Park on Gloucester Avenue in Montego Bay, which will serve as a public space for locals and visitors to the western city, was officially opened yesterday.Tourism Minister Edmund...

ANGERED BY the findings of the Emil George-chaired Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller yesterday suggested that the contents of the 58-page document tabled in the House of Representatives...

K.D. Knight, lead attorney for the People's National Party (PNP) at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry, yesterday chose strong adjectives in venting his disgust at the findings of the Emil George-led report into the handling of the extradition request...