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Halse Hall, Clarendon:Prime Minister Bruce Golding has said the expected level of investment that should have come with the construction of Highway 2000 has not been realised.

Principal of Ardenne High School, Esther Tyson, has charged that the transformation of Jamaica's educational system has been retarded by political interference and a litany of missteps at several levels. Tyson, who was part of the education...

SEVENTY-NINE-year-old Rachel Brown had become fearful her son-in-law Wayne Llewellyn could kill her and members of her family. Wednesday evening Brown reportedly telephoned one of her church sisters to say she felt the angel of death was near....

The police are pointing to their recent gang-busting strategy as one of the main reasons for the dramatic decline in murders in the first quarter of this year.Between January 1 and March 31, the number of murders...

National Security Minister Dwight Nelson and the Police High Command have scoffed at claims by human-rights lobby Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) that there has been a further erosion of human rights since the west Kingston incursion almost one year ago....

OPPOSITION SENATOR K.D. Knight has declared that Jamaica's business sector lacks vision.
During yesterday's sitting of the Senate, Knight challenged the sector to become more creative and pursue new entrepreneurial ventures instead of clinging to the "traditional".

THE GOVERNMENT has proposed to enact legislation to mandate the sharing of infrastructure by telecommunications companies. A proposed information and communication technology (ICT) policy document tabled...

Daryl Vaz, Jamaica Labour Party member of parliament and government minister, has blasted the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) over its actions during the recent by-elections in South West St Catherine and the Frankfield division in North West...

The top brass of the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) believes that a Kingston-based criminal network is responsible for most of the big-ticket robberies that have taken place since January."There is a trend...

Incidents of human-rights abuses have rocketed to troubling heights in the aftermath of the bloody military operations in west Kingston, which claimed the lives of at least 73 people....

National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) boss, Joan Gordon-Webley, is appealing to corporate entities across the island to desist from engaging in improper waste disposals."What is sad is that many of the the corporations in Jamaica ...

IF ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and Government backbencher Clive Mullings' legal opinion is grounded in law, the proposed establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor could hit a major constitutional roadblock....