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Cable dated: August 13, 2005 ...

Double world-record holder Usain Bolt and business executive Earl Jarrett are among five Jamaicans named honorary graduands of the University of the West Indies (UWI) this year.The others are banker Minna Israel, Professor...

News that Dr Peter Phillips and Dr Omar Davies seem set to play a lead role in the People's National Party administration, if it wins the next general election, should be welcome by the United States Embassy in Kingston which had long expressed fear...

The teenager for whose murder four policemen have been on trial since May 2 was charged with illegal possession of firearm and picked up on numerous occasions by the police. Deputy Superintendent of Police Michael Simpson made the disclosures yesterday...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: HUNDREDS OF volunteers from just about every agency, organisation, and civil-society group, turned out at the Port Antonio hospital on Labour Day to give the premier health facility a much-needed beautification and facelift....

AS THE governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) remained in a tailspin following the resignation of Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson, a cloud of uncertainty last night hung over his position as a deputy leader of the party....

US Embassy cable dated September 8, 2009 reports Audrey Marks appealed for America not to publicly pressure Government on extradition matter...

DNA tests required by the US Embassy in Kingston as a vital part of its immigrant visa process have turned up embarrassing figures of the number of women ascribing paternity of their children to the wrong man. One in every 10 men who turns up...

December 10, 2009 - Government's two-faced approach to extradition request. "The imbroglio illustrates both the GOJ's paralysis over the issue as the Golding administration flails for new legal points on which to delay a decision, as well as the PNP's ...

Several of the persons being watched by the United States, according to confidential diplomatic cables from the United States Embassy in Kingston, are suspected associates of controversial Muslim Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal...

The Kingston Western police say there are indications that persons close to ousted Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke were planning to "disrupt the peace" in the community to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the Tivoli Gardens...

A head-on collision along the Spring Hill main road in Trelawny yesterday claimed the lives of four persons, including a 14-year-old student.Four others, including a four-year-old boy, were listed as being in serious to critical condition after being...