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Jamaica's High Commissioner in London, Anthony Johnson, has written to the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA), assuring that body that his government holds the rights of women as inviolable. Johnson was responding to correspondence from the CBA...

As the international community observed World Water Day on Tuesday, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) advised that ingenious approaches to safeguarding water are necessary for developing countries...

Officials of the Ministry of Education have reported a successful first day's sitting of this year's Grade Six Achievement Test, despite a few glitches caused by a limited number of answer sheets at some schools islandwide. The Gleaner understands that some schools...

THE Head of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), Zia Mian, wants to pay more money to his senior staff in order to retain them, but is bemoaning the fact that the entity is bound by strictures of the public service which dictate salary bands for employees....

To the students, remain calm, do not panic.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has sought to clear the air on the circumstances under which he uttered a slew of controversial comments during the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition imbroglio between the United States and Jamaica.Golding was emphatic...

A book reported missing during the cross-examination of Ministry of Justice consultant Marcia Beverley at the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry has been located.In a release yesterday, the justice ministry said the book was forwarded to the secretariat...

Close to 500 students are yet to receive their timetables to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which will be administered tomorrow and Friday. Chief Education Officer Grace McLean made the disclosure yesterday during a press conference...

Another mystery has enveloped the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry - this time it's the case of the vanishing book.The commission was told that a book kept at the Ministry of Justice, in which a bearer signed for the extradition request...

PARTISAN POLITICS found no place in the House of Representatives yesterday when it became apparent that members have successfully taken a giant step towards amending the Constitution. Even before Heather Cooke, clerk...

MORE THAN 80 per cent of drivers in Jamaica have been certified with general drivers' licences, a revelation that had members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) struggling to come to grips with that reality.The Inland Revenue Department...

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: WITH THE advent of the Safe Schools Programme (SSP) in 2004, came several strategies to address the increasing incidents of violence in troubled institutions. So far, the initiative implemented by the Ministry of Education...