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Weeks after mayor of Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, announced a hitch in plans by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation to construct a multimillion-dollar drop-in centre to house the more than 600 homeless people roaming the streets of the Corporate Area...

Westmoreland resident Garth Elvin, with the assistance of his lawyer, Bert Samuels, has sent a letter to the commissioner of police seeking to refute claims that he is an area leader in White Hall district, near Negril,...

Lorraineis seven years away from executing her own retirement plan, and worries about her father, an 84-year-old senior citizen without health insurance who is unable to retire because he has no other form of income...

The board of directors of Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) has dismissed speculation that its acquisition of Air Jamaica is in danger.Caribbean Airlines gave the assurance in a statement released late yesterday.A previous statement from CAL on December...

The Court of Appeal, in giving its reasons for dismissing an appeal against a murder conviction, has said that public interest demands that the continued escalation of such crimes be deterred."The occurrence of murders in...

WESTERN BUREAU: OF THE many cases that came before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court throughout 2010, none generated as much interest as that of Earl Fray, father of convicted attempted hijacker Stephen Fray....

WESTERN BUREAU: For the second time in months, a cruise liner scheduled to dock at the new Falmouth Port in Trelawny has changed course. The latest ship to cancel is Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas....

MAY PEN, Clarendon: ALDO BROWN, president of the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber was not active in 2010 but intends to do much more for the parish in 2011....

Mayor of Kingston Desmond McKenzie received a tongue-lashing on the weekend from several of downtown Kingston's homeless, who accused him of feeding them with empty promises to construct a multimillion-dollar drop-in centre, which has been on the drawing board of the Kingston...

BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth: THE BREADbasket parish of St Elizabeth was not spared the onslaught of the global recession in 2010 and came in for much battering when heavy rains associated with Tropical Storm Nicole lashed the island last September....

A 14 per cent increase in murders and waves from the west Kingston disturbance that negatively impacted the tourism sector made 2010 a difficult year for St Ann.Forty murders were recorded between the start of January and December 26...

LINSTEAD, St Catherine: In 2005, the Linstead Development Area Committee (LDAC) took ackee from the Linstead Market, to Dinthill Technical High School, to showcase the usefulness of the fruit. Among other things, the Linstead Ackee Festival and Show...