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LINSTEAD, St Catherine:PATRICIA HALL, a motor-vehicle crash survivor of Linstead, St Catherine, is resting a little easier these days, through the benevolence of Jamaicans...

David Walcott, a former student of Campion College in St Andrew, is this year's winner of the Rhodes Scholarship, widely considered to be among the world's most prestigious academic awards.

President of the Republic of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, hopes the strategies his country used to fight the drug cartel in his country will be of benefit to Jamaica's crime problem.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced yesterday that it had revised Jamaica's economic growth target for the current fiscal year to -0.5 per cent.

CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has expressed grave reservations about a Cabinet proposal to grant a three-month moratorium for a group of contractors whose reregistration has hit a snag.

Milton Samuda, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), is asserting that the nation's desire for sustained economic growth, which has eluded successive administrations over the past 40 years...

Embattled government minister James Robertson can expect a warm welcome from his colleagues when he addresses the public session of the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) 67th annual conference on Sunday....

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda yesterday finally ended the long guessing game.He will be calling it quits as the leader of the party's secretariat.Samuda yesterday made it clear that he wants...

MAY PEN, Clarendon: RESIDENTS OF Longville Park Housing Scheme in Clarendon got a scare yesterday after a National Water Commission (NWC) tank containing approximately 300,000 gallons of water collapsed and flooded several...

David Smith, head of the failed foreign-exchange trading scheme Olint, is in United States custody today after he was handed over to American authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) yesterday. Yesterday, his attorney, Oliver Smith, said that the Olint boss...

Judy was 12 years old when she became pregnant and had an abortion.A year later, the high school student found herself in a predicament and she could not go home.She showed up at the Tivoli Gardens Police Post...

Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green, head of the Major Investigation Task Force, is urging the Jamaican Government to invest in higher-quality paper for its official documentation, as a deterrent to the high incidence of identity theft....