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In response to Sunday's carnage in which five persons were murdered in Salt Spring, St James, National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has announced that a permanent police/military post is to be established in the nearby Montego Hills community.

THE NAMING of Joseph M. Matalon and Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller in a motion filed by Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne, for a declaration by the court on her authority and powers in matters relating to extradition, has triggered debate on whether these two defendants' rights to freedom of expression were breached.

GENERAL SECRETARY of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Karl Samuda, admitted yesterday that unnamed persons within his party approached local attorney Harold Brady to engage the services of a United States law firm to resolve an explosive treaty dispute...

A string of sting operations involving the police and army is being planned to target crop and cattle thieves, who have for years been pillaging the agricultural sector.

K.D. Knight, one of Portia Simpson Miller's harshest critics during her campaign for the presidency of the People's National Party (PNP) in 2006, has been appointed chief healer in the party.

More than 80 people have been fatally shot by the police since the start of this year, with another 33 individuals nursing gunshot wounds after alleged confrontations between cops and criminals.

Criticism of South Africa's pace of poverty reduction and its mixed success in forging a multiracial society is unwarranted and premature, South Africa's high commissioner to Jamaica, Faith Radebe, has argued.

An estimated 400 students from across the island will be given financial assistance from the NCB Foundation to access tertiary and secondary education for the 2010 academic year.

Concerns have been raised in legal circles as to why West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was named as a defendant in the motion filed in the Supreme Court by Minister of Justice and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne.

The South African High Commission is seeking to promote stronger business linkages between Jamaican entities and those in South Africa with an exhibition which coincides with the country's 16th year of freedom from the apartheid regime.

I think Government and the police need to do more and the people need to get involved, too. People are not talking because they are scared.