"I am Cicely Morris. C-I-C-E-L-Y, Cicely Morris. I am 101 years and six months," she responds before going on to say that she was born in Orange River to Hilda May on February 5, 1909.
AT THE last census, nearly half Jamaica's population was under age 40. This group represents the country's immediate future and much is expected of them.
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Checkpoints have been re-erected at several entrances and exits in Tivoli Gardens as the police react to claims of an upsurge in robbery, rape, and other criminal offences...
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The Organised Crime Investigation Division along with the Manchester Street Crimes Unit yesterday smashed a major car-stealing ring in Porus, Manchester.Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network indicate that shortly after 10 a.m., a police...
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The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) yesterday said the Chief Executive Officer of the National Works Agency (NWA), Patrick Wong, should apologise for the way he responded to a Gleaner query this week.
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Dr Paul Jury, associate professor in meteorology at the University of Puerto Rico, says the use of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind energy to generate electricity in larger Caribbean territories such as...
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FOUR SENIOR resident magistrates were yesterday presented with instruments of appointment to act as Supreme Court judges while Justice Norma McIntosh was appointed to the Court of Appeal bench.
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WESTERN BUREAU: Shaneika Hazle, a past student of Montego Bay High School for Girls, has done her alma mater proud with excellent achievements in the 2010 CSEC exams.
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WESTERN BUREAU: Mathematics continues to be the stumbling block for many students across Jamaica, but for a number of eighth- and ninth-grade students in Montego Bay, St James, it's 'easy peasy Japanesy'.
TRANSPORT MINISTER Mike Henry has greeted a boycott of the Manchester launch of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) with a suggestion that opposition parliamentarian Peter Bunting get out of politics....
Dr Audia Barnett has resigned as executive director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), effective month end.A statement from the SRC said Barnett will be taking up an overseas assignment.The SRC stressed that Barnett's...
A TRADE-OFF of sorts has averted a crisis that had developed into an international flashpoint - the proposed burning of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, by a controversial leader of a small church in Florida, United...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Granville police in St James are investigating several leads that could result in the arrest of the masterminds behind a chop shop uncovered at Retirement in the parish yesterday.It is understood that seven scrapped vehicles were...
Minister of Energy and Mining James Robertson recently observed a state-of-the-art alumina refinery at Queensland Alumina Limited (QAL) in Australia, one of the world's largest alumina refineries, during a private visit to that country....
A special corporal from the St Andrew South Division was on Wednesday arrested by members of the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on reasonable suspicion for breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act.A release from the Jamaica Constabulary Force stated that...
Government's promise to pay $500 million in outstanding allowances to registered nurses has led at least one other public-sector group to lash out against the perceived unfairness reflected in the agreement....
One might have thought that prostate cancer was solely a male concern but, if yesterday's turnout for Cancer Awareness Day at the Jamaica Cancer Society is anything to go by, women are demonstrating that they are just...
National Works Agency (NWA) boss Patrick Wong has scoffed at concerns about the rationale for the parish-by-parish launch of an islandwide road-rehabilitation programme, even as speculation swirls that the Government...
An umbrella group of church leaders delivered a stinging response to the Bruce Golding administration's latest claims on the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips controversy, saying bluntly that some members have rejected the Government's explanation...
