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Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Approximately £15,000, raised through a charity cycle race around the island this past Sunday, will enable doctors at the Bustamante Hospital for Children to carry out seven critical heart surgery operations.

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE KINGSTON Central police yesterday captured one of the major suspects in the Tredegar Park, St Catherine, murders.The man, known as Biggs, was apprehended in Fletcher's Land, west Kingston.Superintendent Steve McGregor said the man had fresh gunshot...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

POLICE IN downtown Kingston have seized more than $2 million worth of DVDs and arrested 17 people since the start of the year. The police say they are on a mission to clean up illegal vending in the market district...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Two government entities have been raided in the latest episode in Contractor General Greg Christie's investigation of contracts awarded to a company linked to state minister in the Ministry of Water and Housing...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

One St Catherine school principal is hoping that more parents will be able to provide textbooks for their children in the upcoming academic year. Fay Sewell-Hall, of Guanaboa Vale All-Age School, told The Gleaner that a lack of printed material...

Published:Friday | August 20, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU:A sea of water threatens to collapse on the heads of teachers and students at the Merlene Ottey High School in Hanover whenever it rains, as the institution struggles with leaking classrooms and administrative...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

David Smith, the embattled head of the failed foreign currency trading scheme Olint, has been indicted on 23 charges in the United States. In the indictment handed down in the US District Court in the Middle District of Florida...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica's arts community, rocked by the deaths of several stalwarts in recent years, got another blow last Friday with the passing of painter Samila Joseph Parboosingh, popularly known as Seya....

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE LEGAL team for former executive director of the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB), Lenice Barnett, says it is examining its options as it prepares to tackle her dismissal.Attorney-at-law K.D...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

On Tuesday evening, Sir Roy Augier suggested to the largely Rastafarian gathering at the Undercroft, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, a relationship with Africa which would see an acceptance of Jamaica as their...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Public-sector data has shown that many deceased persons are still raking in pension payments in what could be a massive scam operated by those who are still in the land of the living.A day after news surfaced that...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has vowed that the people of Tredegar Park, St Catherine, will never again have to endure the nightmare which climaxed with the killing of eight of their neighbours last Friday...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE GOVERNMENT is mobilising several agencies to provide immediate assistance to the residents of Tredegar Park, St Catherine, who are struggling to cope with the impact of a conflict that has left more than 30 people dead over the past seven...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Conflicting reports are beginning to surface about the cause of the bloody battle that has engulfed the communities of Tredegar Park and Gravel Heights in East Central St Catherine.The official reports from the police link the conflict to the two major...

Published:Thursday | August 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Defending the Government's decision to cut the education budget, Education Minister Andrew Holness yesterday labelled criticisms levelled by the president of a United States-based body as "unfair".

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) says it has uncovered several discrepancies in the public sector, including salary payments to dead workers on the Government's payroll....

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS says it might decide against seizing the remaining uncustomed vehicles sold to unsuspecting victims by Key Motors if the company makes full restitution to the Government. Danville Walker, commissioner of customs...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A murder convict who applied to the Supreme Court for his immediate release, because he had already served 14 years, had his application turned down after Justice Glen Brown ruled the killer must serve more time...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Jamaica Defence Force soldier Leslie Moodie is to be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on August 25 for four counts of murder. Moodie, 23, should have been sentenced Monday, but an adjournment had to be granted because his character witnesses...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Minister of state for Water and Housing, Everald Warmington dispatched a detailed letter late yesterday to Contractor General Greg Christie, rebuffing claims of impropriety as a government minister or parliamentarian....

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Concerns over the alleged misuse of fingerprinting data just won't go away, since law-enforcement personnel scooped up numerous Jamaicans in raids following the west Kingston incursion in late May. Another dimension...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

EIGHTY-ONE years after its founding, Marcus Garvey's People's Political Party (PPP) has received a makeover by the hand of a small but passionate group of new-generation Garveyites. The PPP meets Thursday nights at the Monica...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Can you imagine avocadoes at the Christmas dinner table or jackfruit without that stain and pungent fragrance? Or, can you recognise longan, a small fleshy guinep-like fruit from the lychee family?...

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

OCHO RIOS, St Ann: Newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy, is calling for stakeholders to come together and address the ills of the education system in Jamaica....

Published:Wednesday | August 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Scores of persons who turned up at the Kingston Public and Victoria Jubilee hospitals yesterday had an extended wait as some administrative staff staged a one-hour protest....

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