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Ambassador David Muirhead has been appointed the new chairman of the Integrity Commission.The appointment takes effect today.The Integrity Commission has been without a chairman since November of last year when then chairman, Justice Randolph Langrin,...

National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has declared the nation's police will not run from criminals, but is shooting down suggestions from his Opposition counterpart that the force appears to have adopted...

After many years of dormant sporting activities in Riversdale, St Catherine, games, such as football, basketball and netball are becoming popular again among the youths with the establishment of a newly...

MANDEVILLE, MANCHESTER:A security guard, believed to be in his early fifties, died in the Mandeville Hospital after he was shot by gunmen on Monday during a daring hold-up of a gas station in the heart of the town.Reports are that about 7:45 p.m., two...

The Government has announced it is moving to change the agreement by which the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) is paid for providing street lights across the country.Robert Montague, state minister with responsibility for local government...

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Finance Minister Audley Shaw has announced a whopping increase in property tax rates effective tomorrow. The property tax increase will see the flat rate move from $600 to $1,000.The flat rate is appli-cable to property with unimproved value up to $300,000.

WESTERN BUREAU: The ongoing drought conditions affecting the island are having a debilitating effect on farming in western Jamaica. President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Glendon Harris, believes it is twice as expensive for farmers to produce...

FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw will today lead his Cabinet colleagues into Gordon House to defend the spending that has been proposed for each ministry of government.Already, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP)...

THE TEARS flowed freely, but there was no sad face inside the Heroes Circle home of Wolmer's Boys' School yesterday morning as Wolmerians celebrated in a way they had not done for 54...

Another early adjournment of the Cuban light-bulb trial occurred yesterday at the Half-Way Tree court after a peeved Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey chided Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn and her team, who she accused of poor...

Good Morning Mrs Walker-Huntington, I have a big concern. I recently read a Jamaican newspaper online and found out that US visas are being revoked. Now, I am a permanent resident in America and am currently in school...