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Minister with responsibility for local government, Robert Montague, has ordered an investigation into the conditions at the Vineyard Town Golden Age Home in Kingston.At the same time, Montague has directed the board of directors for the home to convene...

Neither 35-year-old Jennifer Brown nor her spouse has an interest in being counted in the 2011 Population and Housing census, which begins today. Inclusion, Brown believes, will not affect their lives...

THE WELL-MANICURED lawns and lush fruit trees of The Golden-Age Home, an infirmary for elderly indigent and disabled Jamaicans, present a picture of a calm oasis at its Vineyard Town, Kingston 3, location. Beneath the surface, however, in residential clusters, is a heartbreaking and stomach-churning story of abuse and neglect.

SENIOR HEALTH officials in Jamaica are raising an alarm about the number of accidental-poisoning cases in children. Data obtained from the health ministry showed that last year, 584 confirmed cases of accidental poisoning were reported to the National Surveillance Unit of the Ministry of Health.

Truckers and quarry operators working on the elaborate four-lane Palisadoes strip leading to the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston appear to be on a collision course with the major contractor, China Harbour Engineering Company, that is threatening to throw the construction schedule out of kilter.

REASON FLED the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry last week as the verbal clashes between Bruce Golding and K.D. Knight brought the curtains down on the gamut of testimonies and took the proceedings to a new low in what Hugh Small characterised as "a hostile environment".

ALBION, Manchester;THE WINTER season has come and gone, leaving behind a band of wailing cash-crop farmers in rural Manchester."Mi a 59 years old.

THE ORGANISERS of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships have created what they call an "ejection team" for the final day of the event being staged at the National Stadium.

THE MANATT-Dudus commission of enquiry was stunned yesterday by a suggestion that Christopher 'Dudus' Coke knew about plans to indict him only hours after Prime Minister Bruce Golding conferred with the former United States Ambassador to Jamaica on October 29, 2007.

The Gleaner took to the streets to get the views of Jamaicans on how their schools would perform in the National Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships.

PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding yesterday refused to withdraw a claim he made in testimony that the conduct of Chargé d'Affaires of the United States Isiah Parnell constituted harassment.Golding was invited to...

OFF-DUTY members of the police force attending today's final day of the ISSA Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships are being warned that they should leave their firearms at home.In the Force Orders issued yesterday, the Police High Command noted that...