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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.

THE PARLIAMENTARY Opposition has taken the burning Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair back to Parliament, as it moves to get answers from Prime Minister Bruce Golding on an issue that refuses to go away.

Minister of Justice and Attorney General Senator Dorothy Lightbourne in court documents has outlined the reasons why she named West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and the other two defendants in the motion she filed last week, seeking declarations concerning the controversial handling of Coke's extradition request.

The long-overdue letter of appointment for the acting commissioner of police is now ready.A well-placed source says signatures should be affixed to the document by the end of the week.Gleaner sources said a contract which appears to be acceptable by...

LONDON, (AFP): Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) yesterday ordered a phased reopening of much of the country's airspace from 10 p.m. (2100 GMT), bringing in sight an end to the five-day aerial shutdown.

As drama teacher Ann Marie Cephas complimented the young ladies of St Andrew Technical High School, their faces were alight with excitement.The girls anxiously made their way into the S.W.

GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY swallowed the insulting words it spewed in the battle with public-sector workers, with Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday saying sorry for all indiscretions."There have been times when in the heat of contentious discourse words...