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The motor-vehicle crash that claimed the lives of six Jamaicans in the United States last Saturday struck a personal chord with the Reverend Rennard White, president of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals.His brother, Bishop Simon White, the pastor...

Deputy Superintendent of Police Herfa Beckford, the hero cop who was later elevated to head the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), has died.She was 46. Beckford died suddenly in hospital yesterday from medical...

NEWLY APPOINTED national campaign director for the People's National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, wasted no time yesterday in making an impassioned plea to Comrades to throw their support behind Portia Simpson...

People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller has declared that the sea of orange that converged on the National Arena yesterday was a message to the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) that the island's people want to see...

Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of agriculture and fisheries, who has been accused of violating the perjury laws, says the allegations by Contractor General Greg Christie have raised doubts about his credibility and caused his family "great distress".

WESTERN BUREAU: More than 40 Jamaicans residing in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States flew into the island for the first annual Friends of Noel Holmes Hospital and the West Haven Children's Home Charity Ball...

AFTER CONDUCTING a content analysis of Cedric 'Doggie' Murray's diary, a consultant forensic psychia-trist at the University of the West Indies has concluded that the alleged transnational killer was a psychopath who was unlikely to have been rehabilitated.

THE 'MOTHER woman' of mythical fame is a source of refuge for many Jamaicans seeking help or protection. Among those who run to these mother women are so-called 'gangsters' and 'shottas' who seek any assistance that they can get.

Portia Simpson Miller is expected to inform today's public session of the 72nd annual conference of the People's National Party of her intention to reshuffle her shadow Cabinet.

A UNITED States-based handwriting expert has determined that the entries in a diary the police say was taken from the corpse of Cedric 'Doggie' Murray after he was killed were all written by the same hand.

MEMBER OF Parliament (MP) for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson, yesterday filed in the Supreme Court Registry the notice of her intention not to contest the election petition filed against her. Elector Manley Bowen had...

MEMBERS OF the Mobile Reserve Unit were in a sombre mood yesterday as news spread like wildfire that one of their colleagues had been shot and killed by gunmen on Thursday night at the Rosemount Housing Scheme in St Catherine.