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SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: RESIDENTS OF Spanish Town and its environs turned out in large numbers at Emancipation Square in the Old Capital last Thursday evening, to witness the mayor's annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony...

WESTERN BUREAU: Her smile has the power to melt your heart, while her eyes peer into your soul.Two-year-and-four-month-old Terri-Ann Costley has enough charm to move you. And that's exactly what she did with communications firm Flow....

As hundreds of smiling faces peered through bus windows, the large field gradually filled with children who filed in and were greeted by Elmo and Dora the Explorer.

Legislation has been tabled in the House of Representatives which is intended to make it less difficult for Jamaica to hang condemned persons.The bill was crafted in response to the landmark Pratt and Morgan ruling of the Judicial Committee of the Privy...

CARISBROOK, St Elizabeth: ELDERLY RESIDENTS of Carisbrook, St Elizabeth, received a well-needed Christmas boost recently as their neighbours pulled out all the stops to assist them. In an initiative led by the Carisbrook Community Development Committee...

THE ST ANN police yesterday charged mayor of St Ann's Bay, Ivan Anderson with fraud. Anderson is accused of impropriety in a multimillion-dollar real-estate transaction he undertook in his capacity as a land...

A government-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus was seized yesterday by the St Catherine bailiff for an outstanding Supreme Court award of $6.6 million.The money is owed to conductress Stephanie Tilmutt...

The draft of a final report into last year's accident involving an American Airlines plane at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) is expected to be completed by its March deadline. Today marks one year since...

THE GOVERNMENT has mooted the idea of creating a local court of justice as the seat of Jamaica's final court of appeal. Prime Minister Bruce Golding sounded the issue yesterday during a debate on the Charter of Rights...

John William Maxwell's immense impact on and connection with nature and every living thing with which he came in contact was at the heart of a moving memorial service held in his honour yesterday....

Before the last box was counted and with victory secure, Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday vowed to return the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Shahine Robinson to a state ministerial post in the Office of the Prime Minister....

The man who was sentenced to hang for the murders of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association, Lloyd G. Brown, and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell, was successful yesterday in having the judge's ruling set aside.