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OCHO RIOS, ST ANN:The St Ann Chamber of Commerce has emerged top chamber for 2009, the fifth time the parish is receiving the honour since it first won the award in 2001.The award, presented by the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, goes to the parish chamber...

Crime statistics became a hot topic in the Senate yesterday after Sandra Falconer's contribution to a debate on the Budget.Murders since January 1 this year have darted past the 500 mark, triggering even greater concerns about the wanton bloodletting...

The Police Service Commission has announced the appointment of Owen Lloyd Ellington, CD, JP, as commissioner of police in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), effective April 5.Ellington, 47 years old, is a past student of the Glengoffe High School.

An inspection of the National Stadium yesterday highlighted several obvious defects that could "weaken the structure" but the company that manages the facility disclosed immediately that it had no money to make the corrections.

Jinghua Chen, China's ambassador to Jamaica, is expressing confidence that a Chinese radio and television station will be established locally, which will add to the offerings of free-to-air media entities on the local landscape.

The St Ann-based Noranda Bauxite Ltd, which announced a 25 per cent increase in production a year ago, amid a down-turn in bauxite demand worldwide, is to make the jobs of 100 contract workers redundant.

The often pilloried Operation Pride housing programme, introduced by the former People's National Party (PNP) government, has received a sound endorsement from Howard Mitchell, chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT).

THE RAIDING of the National Health Fund (NHF) will never happen again, Finance Minister Audley Shaw has promised.Government had taken $300 million from the NHF last fiscal year as it scrambled to find funds to develop a healthy primary balance.

Career Librarian and director of library services at Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Grace Carr-Benjamin, has been named All-Island Boss of the Year 2010-2011. The selection was made earlier this month the Hotel Tim Bamboo in Portland.

While an awareness week dedicated to vasculitis has been scheduled to start Sunday, there are still aspects of the disease yet to be discovered.

More Jamaicans are attempting suicide. A large number of that group are females. The 2009 version of the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica, published by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, revealed that of the 98 attempted suicide cases that showed up at the island's public-health facilities between January and June last year 72 were females.