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Peter Bunting, general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP), has labelled Professor Don Robotham a fascist. Bunting made the comment on Sunday after Robotham launched another broadside at the PNP in a Sunday Gleaner column....

Monday morning traffic along a section of Red Hills Road, St Andrew, inched along like a golden ager plagued with arthritis.'Ducta', who stood on the steps of his half-empty bus,...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is urging established farmers, or other persons who have a good agriculture or rural tourism business plan, to organise themselves into community groups and take advantage of US$15 million...

United States drug-enforcement agents appear to have come across the first details it learned about the alleged criminal empire of accused drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke by chance.Those details, according to a recent New York Times article...

PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding is to meet with the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Dr Arturo A. Valenzuela, tomorrow when the US official pays a courtesy call on him at Jamaica House.

PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding's words have been thrown back at him by the People's National Party (PNP), which has yet again declared he cannot be trusted. PNP President Portia Simpson Miller yesterday labelled Golding the "flip-flopper-in-chief"...

Under pressure from parents bawling about the high cost of auxiliary fees, and with the education ministry adamant that no child should be turned away for failing to pay these charges, several schools are strugg-ling to finance the most basic services.

A PROMINENT local attorney is urging a review of the law that allows boys under 16 years old to be charged with carnal abuse even when they have consensual sex with a girl who is also younger than 16.

Jolted by what he has perceived as the swift reaction of criminal elements to the end of the limited state of emergency, National Security Minister Dwight Nelson will be huddling with senior security officers early this week.

IT is widely agreed, certainly by CARICOM, that workforce productivity will be the dominant driver of economic growth in the region. Several countries are currently putting together plans that will have an impact on human resource development, and workforce training and development in particular.

WESTERN BUREAU: CLASSIFYING 'SHOTTAS' as "waste sperm", the man tagged 'Five Star General', Rodney 'Bounty Killer' Pryce, said it was time for the Government to replace dons, commence the fight against poverty, and leave...

Arnold Foote Sr, a former president of the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica (AAAJ), was honoured by the association on Wednesday, for his contribution to the advertising industry over the past 50 years.