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Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

CANADIAN researchers have revealed that some farm workers in Canada, including Jamaicans, developed health conditions such as chronic pain, gastrointestinal ailments and other illnesses from long-term exposure...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TWO MEN facing murder charges in separate incidents are to return to the Home Circuit Court on April 29.They are Michael McLean, 39, who is charged with the murder of six members of a family in St Thomas in February 2006, and Rohan Masters...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PARLIAMENTARIANS TRADED bitter insults in Gordon House yesterday during a heated debate on the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), which later triggered a walkout by the parliamentary Opposition...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA'S TOURIST industry has earned some US$852.6 million, over the last four months, according to Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett. The figures, although preliminary...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Government is owed a whopping $2 billion in outstanding traffic fines by some Jamaicans who have flouted road laws. The disclosure was made by National Security Minister Dwight Nelson at the Standing Finance...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Still facing flak over conditions at the Vineyard Town Golden Age Home, the Government has appointed yet another team to probe the matter.This time, a task force to be led by Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon, executive director of the Mustard Seed...

Published:Thursday | April 21, 2011 | 12:00 AM

HELP HAS been pouring into the Trench Town Primary School in St Andrew since The Gleaner reported on the challenges facing the institution. The institution, which has been the pride and joy of the inner-city community...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday suggested that the Government may have to seek private legal assistance to complete drafting outstanding legislation which has been piling up.The prime minister...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Some key stakeholders in the energy sector have suggested that the country's economy cannot be transformed with the existing high cost of electricity.Christopher Levy, chief executive officer of the Jamaica Broilers Group,...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A CALL has been made for Government to implement systems to wean Jamaicans off welfare and give them the skills required to take care of themselves.The Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), established by Government in 2001 targets...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Chairman of the Golden Age Home's board of directors, Rion Hall, thinks the Government's favourable reception to recommendations for an improvement to the Golden Age Home is a tacit admission of culpability for the ills...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

TELECOMMUNICATIONS GIANT Digicel has announced it will be funding the construction a new Paediatric Cardiac Centre of Excellence at the Bustamante Hospital for Children at a cost of $100 million.....

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

JAMAICA'S HIGH food-import bill is one of the biggest threats to the development of the nation, economist Dennis Morrison said at the Rotary Club of St Andrew's weekly luncheon at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel,...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

MEMBERS OF the Parliamentary Opposition are contending that several areas in the education and health sectors are likely to suffer greatly in the upcoming year because of deficiencies in the Budget.Speaking yesterday at a...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PAUL MARTIN, the 41-year-old Canadian teacher who is accused of attempting to murder his Canadian wife, has been granted bail in the sum of $500,000 with a surety.Supreme Court judge Donald McIntosh, after hearing a bail...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PRIORY, St Ann: FRESH FROM its international debut at the Grace Jamaica Jerk Festival in Florida last November, the Jamaica International Kite Festival (JIKF) returns for its 2011 edition on Easter Monday, April 25 at the spacious Richmond Estate in Priory, St Ann....

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Major Richard Reese, the director general in the Department of Local Government, is to leave that office when his contract ends on June 10.State minister with responsibility for the department, Robert Montague, made the announcement last night...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

ON WEDNESDAYS when cruise ships come calling at the newly opened Falmouth pier in Trelawny, Arthur Lewars, from Duncans in the parish, gets excited.He has spent much of his 56 years as a proud fisherman...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A Jamaican couple who rolled in millions of pounds sterling while still accepting welfare benefits were yesterday convicted of money laundering in a London court. Burnett Morris, 48, and his wife, 49-year-old Paulette - who British police say...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PUBLIC-SECTOR workers will face an unprecedented fourth year of wage freezes this financial year, even as the Government says it owes public servants $30 billion.Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw said...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WITH 1,700 complaints from Tivoli Gardens residents now before the public defender, one lawmaker has expressed surprise that the budgetary allocation to his office has been cut in this year's Budget.The complaints came against the background of the May...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

PUBLIC BODIES and other agencies of government have been told to reduce their consumption of energy this financial year.Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw said yesterday the Government would be embarking on an aggressive programme of energy...

Published:Wednesday | April 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

LEGACY PAYMENTS associated with the divestment of Air Jamaica will cost taxpayers at least $10 billion this year.Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw said $7.2 billion has been set aside in the Budget for divestment legacy payments.

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE BRUCE Golding administration appears to be cranking up its communication machinery this financial year with a more than 200 per cent increase in the amount allocated for public education.Last year, the Government had set aside $4.7 million ...

Published:Tuesday | April 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Five students and one adult passenger were injured in a motor vehicle accident in Portmore...

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