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Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

FROM BEHIND the counter of her very modest grocery shop in tiny Sedburgh, Manchester, Lasmine Campbell had one simple piece of advice to share with all Jamaicans."It is not how much you earn, it's how much you save," she...

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Opposition senator K.D.Knight says his suspension from the Senate is a sideshow being staged by the Government to take the spotlight away from what he labels its "inefficiency".

Published:Tuesday | March 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

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...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has called for the General Legal Counsel to investigate whether attorney Harold Brady breached professional ethics in his alleged misrepresentation of the Government...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

While condemning the cover-up of child sex-abuse cases involving Roman Catholic clergy globally, Archbishop of Kingston, the Most Reverend Donald Reece, says paedophilia should be treated as an irreversible psychological problem...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The emotions on their faces suddenly transformed into brilliant smiles, as they breathed a sigh of relief, on leaving their classrooms at Vaz Preparatory School, Kingston, on the second day of the Grade Six Achievement Test...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A prosecutor has been commended by Supreme Court judge Sarah Thompson-James for the decision he took in conceding to a no-case submission in the Gun Court.The judge, in commending Crown Counsel Greg Walcolm, described him...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

University of Technology (UTech) students say while they would stay in Jamaica, if the country's economic climate improved so they could support themselves, migration is definitely an option. Seven university students...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

An internal feud in the Spanish Town-based Clansman gang has led to the death of 16-year-old Kevon Lloyd, of Little Lane in Central Village, and the wounding of six others. The gang, which has its headquarters in De la Vega City in Spanish Town...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

STUNG BY criticisms of the slow pace of the court system, and armed with millions of dollars in grant funds from international partners, the justice ministry in 2006 embarked on an ambitious plan...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Students of The University of Technology (UTech) have expressed concern over the Government's decision to make Budget cuts to education, especially at the primary level. Final-year business major Dahlia Dwyer...

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Her entry through the gates at the Cathedral of Praise Basic School in Mandeville, Manchester, a few days ago signalled the first time in more than six months that young Natalee Reid was able to go to class....

Published:Monday | March 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE GOVERNMENT has received commendation for its choice of businesswoman Audrey Marks as the country's ambassador to Washington. The Foreign Affairs Ministry last Friday confirmed that Marks...

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

AT MID-MORNING on Thursday, the Civil Court on Sutton Street, downtown Kingston, is in full swing, names being announced at the requisite volume and pitch that gives...

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

FINDING THE 'right' attorney to represent you in court could mean the difference between freedom and incarceration.

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

ONE HUNDRED years of Boys' Championships have come and gone and in a funny twist of fate, the team which was crowned the first champions, again reigned supreme on...

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE CREAKING justice system is burdened under the weight of over 400,000 cases waiting to...

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A group of university students is expressing grave reservations about the Government's Estimates of Expenditure tabled in Parliament last week.

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Harold Valentine mends a shoe, with his back towards a space in the long freight hall in Linstead, St Catherine.

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Physically, Riversdale, St Catherine, is an extended community, a turn-off from the main road which leads to St Mary going back down the hill and eventually into a dead end that shows there is much more to it than at first sight.

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WITH THE Rotary 'Race to Literacy' book drive well under way, and determined to break the Guinness World Records' mark of 242,624...

Published:Sunday | March 28, 2010 | 12:00 AM

rA COMPUTER software engineer, who has suffered financial losses from piracy of his computer software programmes, says he feels cheated after working so hard to develop the product.

Published:Saturday | March 27, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The sights and sounds of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Girls and Boys' Athletic Championships are second to none in the world, and Gleaner photographers Ian Allen and Ricardo Makyn could not help but bring some of them to your pages.

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