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tampa, Florida (AP): A Florida jury adjourned yesterday without reaching a verdict in reggae star Buju Banton's drug trial.The 12-person jury in Tampa federal court will reconvene today to continue...

TAMPA, Florida (AP): The chatty man drinking red wine with reggae star Buju Banton on a flight from Madrid, Spain, to Miami in the United States seemed to have important music industry connections so, the singer told a court in Tampa, Florida, yesterday...

PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Lloyd Goodleigh, has cautioned the Government that any attempt to restructure the public sector in isolation from the Jamaican labour market is a recipe for disaster....

Very soon property tax evaders will be snared with the click of a mouse. The National Land Agency (NLA) is adding another feature to the newly launched online...

Contractor General of Jamaica Greg Christie is urging the authorities to target persons in the upper echelons of society as part of renewed efforts to crack down on corruption. In his annual report for 2009, Christie expressed...

JAMAICA'S CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has declared his grave concern about what appears to be the failure of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) to either act on or respond to statutory referrals in a timely or effective manner....

MORE THAN two years after the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration established the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) allocating an estimated $5.1 billion, to date, for spending in 60 constituencies...

AUDITOR GENERAL Pamela Monroe Ellis has made an urgent appeal for the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and the board of the Road Maintenance Fund to resolve the uncertainty surrounding the servicing...

Clearing land without replanting trees increases the negative impact a drought has on the country, says David Reid, the National Environment and Planning Agency's (NEPA) environmental officer. Reid told The Gleaner...

Engineering consultant Dr Seshadri Srinivasen says "it may take generations" before a bridge is built across Kingston Harbour in Jamaica, linking Breezy Castle with the airport. Srinivasen was one of many engineers who gathered for a Caribbean engineering conference...

An old, torn armchair lies on Wildman Street's pavement, its rusty springs poking out through the flower-patterned fabric. A shopping trolley is dumped redundantly upside-down, all its wheels missing. Pieces of disused wood scatter the road...

Robert Levy, chairman of the Jamaica Broilers Group of Companies, will this year become the latest inductee into the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica's (PSOJ) Private Sector Hall of Fame.A release from the PSOJ stated that the hall-of-fame honour...