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FROME, Westmoreland: A 10-year-old student of Sir Clifford Campbell Primary School in Westmoreland was killed in a traffic crash Tuesday night. The boy, Nicholas Johns, and his 14-year-old friend, André Sprat, both of Ricketts River in Frome...

FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw yesterday tabled a Green Paper in the House of Representatives which proposes, among other things, a reduction in the rate of the general consumption tax (GCT). It is proposed that the standard GCT rate of 16.5 per cent be reduced...

THE USE of unparliamentary language characterised a verbal clash between Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw and Opposition Spokesman on Transport Robert Pickersgill, as the minister closed the 2011-2012 Budget Debate in Gordon House yesterday....

FALMOUTH, Trelawny:NINE YEARS after ground was broken and five years after construction started and was suspended, completion of the new police station in Falmouth is in sight, as work has resumed.Prime Minister Bruce Golding had revealed in March that...

WESTERN BUREAU: EDMUND BARTLETT, member of parliament (MP) for East Central St James, has weighed in on the recent editorials by The Gleaner that have labelled parliamentarians 'gangs of Gordon House'....

GLENGOFFE, St Catherine: MINISTER OF Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw says it is "patently dishonest" of the leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson Miller, and the Opposition spokesman on Finance, Dr Omar Davies, to suggest that his party is responsible...

Dr Claude Packer, president of The Mico University College, has called on teachers and school administrators to change the manner in which they instruct male students. Packer said more men are needed as teachers....

Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn, QC, has filed an application in the Supreme Court seeking leave to the Judicial Review Court to set aside a subpoena for her to be a defence witness in the fraud...

CHILDREN'S HOMES, golden age homes as well as police stations across the island are set to benefit from a new multimillion-dollar foundation, which is to be established within the National Housing Trust (NHT). The foundation will be funded by 50 per cent...

DESPITE A stern warning against job cuts from trade unions representing public-sector workers, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that at least 10,000 posts will be axed from the public sector over the next five years....

A proposal for the establishment of a venture-capital programme, a mechanism through which small and medium-size companies can more readily access funding, was yesterday tabled in Gordon House by Prime Minister Bruce Golding. The Programme is being...

IT WOULD cost the Government at least $23 billion if it made a decision to pay public-sector workers in lieu of accumulated leave.Census data revealed that public-sector workers have accumulated vacation leave averaging 40 days and, in one instance...