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TWO MEN, one of whom had his DNA samples forcibly taken from him when a policeman handcuffed him after he was arrested, have lost their claim in the Full Court to get declarations for alleged constitutional breaches under the DNA Evidence Act. “In...

The Transport Authority is taking steps to utilise increased electronic surveillance systems to assist it in conducting monitoring and enforcement activities to clamp down on public passenger operators who violate the law. Transport Authority...

JUBILANT PEOPLE’S National Party (PNP) supporters flooded the streets of Cambridge in the St James Southern constituency after an “almost clean sweep” in Monday’s local government elections. The Comrades walked away with three of the four...

WESTERN BUREAU: THE PEOPLE of Westmoreland have selected three of the seven women who ran for political office in Monday’s 17th local government elections. According to the preliminary results, Julian Chang of the People’s National Party (PNP) has...

WESTERN BUREAU: On the face of it, it was a case of ‘as you were’ after this week’s local government elections in western Jamaica as the major parties ended up with control over the same municipalities they held going into Monday – a 3-2 split in...

Kahcine Lindsay is in distress. Her four-year-old daughter, Lydia-Rae Lindsay, is in need of open heart surgery, but the mother of two, who works as an early childhood educator, said the cost is simply out of her reach. “I know I need some help. I...

WESTERN BUREAU: VICE PRESIDENT of the People’s National Party (PNP), Ian Hayles, says the organisation’s sweeping victory of the parish at yesterday’s local government elections is an indication that time has come for a change of governance in the...

Despite celebrating a birthday on Monday, election-day worker Luebert Barrett was happy to spend it serving his country as the long-delayed local government elections were held. It was not his first time serving in an election and he told The...

Omar Sweeney, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and a civil engineer by profession, believes that a lack of proper engineering was responsible for the recent flooding in Montego Bay, St James. Two weeks ago, heavy...

WESTERN BUREAU: Vivian Gordon, the project manager for the ongoing rehabilitation work at the Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), is recommending that any plans for the creation of a new hospital to replace the current structure must start now...

A Trelawny cook who suffered severe injuries to her neck and back after she fell on a wet floor at her workplace, nearly 11 years ago, has been awarded more than $10 million in damages. The claimant, Elaine Allwood-Palmer, who was diagnosed with...

It is expected to be a neck-and-neck race to the finish line between candidates of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) in tomorrow’s local government elections, according to pundits and a recent...