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GORDON HOUSE, the seat of Parliament, was yesterday reduced to a shouting match as East Central St Andrew Member of Parliament Dr Peter Phillips and his colleagues on the opposition...

A NUMBER of students who failed to master the Grade Four Literacy Test are to be prevented from participating in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) when the next sitting of the exam takes place in March....

The Island Traffic Authority (ITA) has indicated that it stands ready to investigate reports that hundreds of persons in possession of driver's licences who recently applied to the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) for driving jobs were...

THE STUDENTS of Mountain View Primary sat eager and attentive. They listened to every word and asked questions as members of National Commercial Bank (NCB) staff cosied up to them in small groups in the school library reading from the many storybooks on hand...

Club Kingston, a new business-class lounge at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) in Kingston, has been slated to open within weeks, offering state-of-the-art services and amenities to passengers from all airlines, including Caribbean...

For the next few days, the streets of the Corporate Area and other urban centres across the island will be littered with the leaves of wilting roses and other vestiges of the 'love fest' that is St Valentine's Day.

Dr Ronald Robinson, so far the only political casualty of the messy Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair, is expected to take the witness stand today as the commission of enquiry into the matter resumes....

From London to Gaza City to Seoul, the world was savouring the spectacular fall of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, with demonstrators rallying in the thousands yesterday in cities across the world. But other authoritarian regimes weren't celebrating - and some were trying to censor the news.

The president of one of Jamaica's longest-serving Christian denominations has challenged the country's national leaders in politics, the Church and business, to be more people-centred in how they conduct their affairs and policy implementation.

STATISTICS FROM the education ministry have painted a worrying picture of indiscipline in school in Jamaica, and have revealed that some 26,000 students have been suspended and hundreds expelled over a three-year period.

THEIR STATED purpose was to visit a number of coffee-processing plants to get first-hand experience of the origin of Jamaican coffee, and members of the East Japan Coffee Roasters Association took that literally, and beyond, during a recent visit.

The proposed whistle-blower legislation moved closer to implementation yesterday after it was given the green light by members of the Senate.