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THE POLICE High Command is denying a Sunday Gleaner report that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Paul Robinson has been replaced at the police armoury. In a statement released yesterday, acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington suggested ...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Dr Christopher Tufton, is warning that Jamaica is likely to suffer economically if it continues to sacrifice farmlands to facilitate other development...

Always striving for excellence, never settling for mediocrity, students who excel have much in common - focus, determination and great parental and teacher support.Today, The Gleaner celebrates with the island's outstanding...

Jamaica's MAJOR Science and Technology Exposition for students attending primary through to tertiary institutions is now set to kick off its 2010 series.Sponsored by the Jamaica Public Service, the expo, which is held in collaboration...

THE PEACE Management Initiative (PMI) has taken police intelligence and the Ministry of National Security to task about the estimated number of gangs in Jamaica.PMI spokesman Horace Levy told The Gleaner...

A LARGE cross section of Jamaicans, especially from the business sector, was on hand yesterday to support the 12th annual Pan Caribbean Sigma Corporate Run, which was held in and around the environs of New Kingston...

THERE ARE signs that the fears and concerns of banana farmers, nearly two years after Jamaica decided to discontinue exporting the product, are beginning to recede....

THREE MEN suspected of involvement in the drugs-for-guns trade were held last Friday night and an undisclosed quantity of compressed ganja confiscated by police personnel who swooped down on Sugarman Beach in Hellshire, St Catherine....

THERE IS, for all practical purposes, no road to the community of Ipswich in St Elizabeth. Mostly, there is a rutted pathway, with white marl only navigable at a very careful crawl.

Scores of Jamaican children with learning disabilities are being left behind by an inadequate education system that spews out illiterates 26,000 at a time. The system not only fails to identify special-needs children, but expects them to compete without systematic intervention.

With every 10 steps he takes, he has to pump three litres of oxygen into his lungs or face possible death. That is how 58-year-old accountant Barrington Gordon, an outpatient of the Cornwall Regional Hospital in Montego Bay, St James, lives from day to day.

The cash crunch affecting Jamaica has started to hit non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hard, with entities which care for homeless and mentally ill street persons facing a chronic food shortage.