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Young people, 17 years and over, who are fit enough to donate blood, will have the opportunity to do so at either of two blood drives planned by the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) and Scotiabank to observe World Blood Donor Day 2010.

ARCHITECT Evon Williams places the love affair among many Jamaicans for huge personal dwellings with the 'windrush generation' that migrated to England to help rebuild post-World War II England and the polygamous structure of some...

THE DEVASTATING upsurge of crime in west Kingston during the recent joint police-military operation has caused overwhelming stress among residents, crippled business interests operating in the corporate area, and placed tremendous strain on the security...

EARLY YESTERDAY morning, the fervent search for the fugitive Christopher 'Dudus' Coke took security personnel to the verdant hills of St Ann where it is believed that Coke owned property. While the area remained under surveillance, Coke was not found.

A SMALL local human-rights group has filed a suit in the Supreme Court challenging the one-month state of emergency which came into effect last month and blaming Prime Minister Bruce Golding for the recent unrest in downtown Kingston.

The colourful and influential clergyman, the Reverend Al Miller, has made an appeal for Jamaica's most wanted Michael Christopher 'Dudus' Coke to turn himelf in to the police.Miller, who was negotiating the possible surrender of Dudus before the Labour...

The Jamaica Society for the Blind launched a fund-raising campaign on Thursday to prop up its programmes.

SOME OF the country's private-sector leaders want the proposed anti-crime bills being debated in Parliament to be enacted swiftly, even though local human-rights groups have pointed...

ATTORNEY GENERAL Dorothy Lightbourne tabled whistle-blower legislation yesterday in the Upper House.

OUSTED MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for North East St Ann, Shahine Robinson, is to know next week Friday if Supreme Court Judge Roy Jones will reverse his decision which declared her seat vacant.

JOHANNESBURG (AP):FROM JOHANNESBURG townships to Ghana's sprawling slums, millions of Africans danced in the streets and beamed with pride as the continent's first World Cup kicked off.

CABINET APPROVED an amendment to the agreement between the Government and Noranda Bauxite Ltd, formerly St Ann Bauxite Limited, which holds the assets of the Discovery Bay operations.