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THE President of the Jamaica Teacher's Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy Young, has sought to explain the reasons behind her organisation's opposition to performance-based pay for teachers. Education Minister Andrew Holness last...

Last year July, Neville McCauley visited Jamaica for a family reunion with his brother Rudolf Noel, who lives in Cedar Valley, St Thomas.Neville Mitchell and Danna Emmanuel are parents of two-year-old Augustus Neville Mitchell...

A BUS transporting a team of University of the West Indies (UWI) footballers from the Mona campus to play their western counterparts in Montego Bay in an intramural competition crashed head-on...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the minister of finance acted improperly in refusing to make an order under the Provisional Collection of Tax Act for the collection of Customs duties on cement being imported from China.

Vendors who work at the Victoria Craft Market on the Kingston waterfront and visitors to the site are exposed to a potentially dangerous health risk: asbestos fibres.

The reporter is at the bus stop outside St Richard's Primary School on Red Hills Road, St Andrew, for less than a minute before the beckoning beep of a horn heralds the availability of a route taxi, heading towards Half-Way Tree.

Behind an official wall of silence, Israel watched nervously Saturday as anti-government unrest worsened in Egypt, fearful that the violent and growing street protests could topple Israel's most important ally in the Arab world.

JAMAICA'S REGULATORY body for broadcast media, the Broadcasting Commission, has rejected complaints from a parliamentary backbencher that it was not carrying out its job effectively.

THE MANDEVILLE Regional Hospital, which serves a population spanning the parishes of Manchester, St Elizabeth, Clarendon and St Ann, will now be able to better address the need for more patients to have access to treatment for renal failure due to the recent handover of a haemodialysis unit to the Mandeville Regional Hospital.

The 155 American Airlines (AA) passengers who landed at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday when the Boeing 757 they were travelling in developed engine problems were set to be flown out of the country last night.

DISGUSTED by the frequent finds of police apparel in the possession of criminals, Commissioner Owen Ellington has ordered an audit of items of kit in respect of members who have been separated from the Jamaica Constabulary Force within the last five years.

K.D. Knight, an opposition senator, accused the current administration of also spending public funds in a questionable manner. The senior lawmaker was blunt in his remarks, stating that his colleagues on both sides of the political divide might be upset at his statement.