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Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Betty Ann Blaine has announced that she will be running as the candidate for her New Nation Coalition (NNC) party in the upcoming South West St Catherine by-election.In a release announcing her candidacy yesterday, Blaine said she wanted to make it...

Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Turning the tables on the Everald Warmington issue, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has called for Women in Media to take a strong stance against Senator K.D. Knight for his behaviour towards the opposite gender...

Published:Wednesday | March 16, 2011 | 12:00 AM

VERE, Clarendon: TEACHERS AND students of Vere Technical High and Central High schools have heaped praises on the e-Learning Jamaica Project (eLJam).But Onnicka Minott, a teacher of information technology at Central High...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The management of Nationwide News Network (NNN) says it is seeking legal advice as it prepares to respond to a directive from the Broadcasting Commission to pull the plug on the controversial talk show 'Ragashanti Live'....

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A meeting between officials of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and representatives of the media ended in a stalemate over action to be taken against Everald Warmington for his behaviour towards members of the local press...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Q.What is a mini-mental state examination? A. This is a type of test that is used to determine how well a person is thinking. It is used to screen persons to determine if they have cognitive impairment or to determine how severe an impairment...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) has joined the call for Everald Warmington to be omitted as a Jamaica Labour Party candidate for the April 4 by-election in South West St Catherine.JCC President Milton...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The following are responses from powerful women in society on the recent controversy involving former Member of Parliament Everald Warmington. Faith Webster - executive director of the Bureau of Women's AffairsI believe the conduct of anyone at any level...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Western Kingston resident Eulalee Henry is one of nearly 7,000 people to get connected within the next two months, joining other paying customers who make up the customer base of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS)....

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Supreme Court Judge Donald McIntosh discharged the jury and ordered a retrial for two men who had been on trial for the last three weeks because no prosecutor was present at 10 a.m...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Minister of Justice and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne yesterday revealed she informed Prime Minister Bruce Golding that controversial memoranda of understanding between Jamaica and foreign states need to be revamped...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With today being 'Tax Day', the Tax Administration Services Department has made special arrangements at its customer-care centre and at all tax offices across the island as it anticipates the usual large number of persons filing their income tax returns...

Published:Tuesday | March 15, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Q. I was in this relationship with this amazing guy. We both attend medical school at the same university and he is a year ahead of me. With the end of medical school approaching for him, he was worried about internship...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

At least one religious leader is warning that the country could plummet into even deeper political cynicism by the time the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry comes to a close this month. At the same time, religious leaders...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Scores of women attached to the local media have joined to demand that Prime Minister Bruce Golding take action against former parliamentarian Everald Warmington for his "offensive" treatment of CVM news anchor Kerlyn Brown during a live television interview...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Long-time Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) activist, Susan Senior, has been selected to represent the party in the by-election in the Norbrook division in North Central St Andrew.The JLP is expected, today, to finalise its candidates to contest the four...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

A second man wanted in connection with last Thursday night's attack on the Spanish Town Police Station in St Catherine has turned himself in to the police.Sheldon Williams, an alleged leader of the Clansman gang who is otherwise known as Nana, of Rivoli...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Five years after the launch of the e-learning project, two St Catherine institutions have concurred that the departure from chalk and talk has been a step in the right direction.The project provides participating institutions with desktops, multimedia projectors...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

AFTER LAST week's admission that he intentionally allowed 'strangers' to sit in the House of Representatives so as to prevent his Government from collapsing, we hope Prime Minister Bruce Golding has already written to the chief parliamentary counsel telling him not...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson has ordered round-the-clock police patrols on the grounds of the Spanish Town Hospital in St Catherine.Nelson, who accompanied Health Minister Rudyard Spencer, issued the order yesterday after a tour of the...

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Officials of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday launched a broadside against the opposition People's National Party (PNP) over its decision not to contest the parliamentary by-election and four parish council by-elections set for April 4....

Published:Monday | March 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: As Selective Homes Limited broke ground for its $3-billion development in Negril, the company's managing director, Robert Cartade, announced the construction of 2,000 low-income housing solutions...

Published:Sunday | March 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

IT WAS billed as a looming epic battle, but the bomb that threatened to smash the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry to smithereens was a four-word accusation hurled at K.D. Knight by Dorothy Lightbourne last Thursday.

Published:Sunday | March 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WITH THE ban on the importation of used tyres being strictly enforced, Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker is moving to plug a loophole used by some persons to take the tyres into Jamaica.

Published:Sunday | March 13, 2011 | 12:00 AM

POLICE INVESTIGATORS believe the Clansman gang, one of the deadliest criminal organisations in the country, is raking in over $400 million a year from its nefarious activities.

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