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JAMAICANS TRAVELLING to the United States of America (US) are concerned about the recent non-immigrant visa revocations of at least one prominent businessman and five entertainers, but are scared to comment openly about...

Members of the Marine Police yesterday intercepted a boat with 30 Haitians aboard, off the course of Bowden, St Thomas."They are here, right at Bowden," a senior subofficer confirmed yesterday evening.According to the subofficer, the group includes 14...

THE JUSTICE system came under judicial fire last week when Supreme Court Judge Marva McDonald-Bishop opened the Easter session of the Home Circuit Court and announced that the...

MOSCOW (AP):Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country's highest military and civilian leaders died yesterday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 97, officials said.Russian...

The public-health sector has given up more than $4 billion in potential income since the Government introduced the free health-care system two years ago.

Minister of Religion Orville Plummer says a team approach is the ideal way to address challenges affecting the country.

During a meeting yesterday between Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer, Labour Minister Pearnel Charles and Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ) representatives at the labour ministry, a decision was taken for the nurses to meet with Shaw next week, but the parties are to return to the Ministry of Labour at a later date.

Finance Minister Audley Shaw has rejected claims that the delay in the transfer of Air Jamaica to Caribbean Airlines is linked to the Government's failure to complete negotiations with the United States Department of Transportation (DOT)....

JAMAICA HAS surpassed one of the major targets set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for it to qualify for a second drawdown of funds from the multilateral agency.However, Finance Minister Audley Shaw says it is too early to say...

TEACHERS, NURSES, the police, soldiers and other civil servants will have to wait for at least three years to get all of the $13 billion owed to them by the financially strapped Jamaica Labour Party administration...

THE GOVERNMENT is aiming to reverse a 2.7 per cent contraction in the economy for calendar year 2009 but its forecast for 2010 is flat as it targets a 0.5 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the period.Finance and Public Service Minister...

What should Jamaicans be doing to assist the police in tackling the crime problem?The Gleaner's news team went through downtown Kingston and Cross Roads to find out what people thought about crime and what could be done about it....