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FORMER PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) General Secretary Dr D.K. Duncan has been awarded the $8-million job of commissioner on the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) by Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller...

The Commission of enquiry into the handling of the Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition request and the subsequent hiring of the United States (US) law firm, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, will hold its first sitting on Monday and is appealing...

Before The Dawn, the latest album by embattled singjay Buju Banton, is among the nominees in the Best Reggae Album category for next year's Grammy Awards. The nominations were announced on Wednesday by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS)....

It might seem a bit early, but now might very well be the best time to stock up on Christmas sorrel."By next week, the price gone up. It going to keep going up until Christmas," said Tazmin Herron...

PORT ANTONIO, Portland: AN UNPRECEDENTED number of men, wanting to know their HIV/AIDS status, turned out at the Port Antonio square in Portland yesterday to get tested as part of World AIDS Day activities in the parish....

The Gleaner's Tyrone Reid is among seven Caribbean journalists who copped top positions in the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) media awards for outstanding work in journalism.

WESTERN BUREAU: The Victims Support Unit will today begin offering post-traumatic counselling sessions in Granville, St James, which was the scene of a violent protest following the police's fatal shooting of a resident on Tuesday."...

Jamaicans will begin paying more for some alcoholic beverages and tobacco-related products, effective today. The increased prices should hit consumers of some tonic wines, spirits, cigars and the increasingly popular 'beedies'.

Graduates of the Documentation Skills Project, being implemented by the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL), have been urged to use their newly acquired skills to empower themselves to better serve their communities."Use your literacy...

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) will be reintroducing the specially branded NI Gold cards in 2011.The cards will be printed by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), and will include the pensioners' photographs so that they can also be used for...

An application for leave to go to the Judicial Review Court to bar Prime Minister Bruce Golding from calling a by-election on December 20 in the North East St Ann constituency is set for hearing tomorrow. The application, which was brought by St Ann elector Manley Bowen...

THE RECENTLY established Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has been given an $86.4-million budget to carry out its day-to-day activities for this fiscal year.INDECOM has been mandated to probe all allegations of...