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Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Albert Huie, Jamaican master painter, is dead. Huie was born in Falmouth, Trelawny, on December 31, 1920. He moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old and his talent quickly captured the attention of key figures in the early Jamaican art movement...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

FIRST GLOBAL Bank (FGB) has secured the services of a counsellor to provide counselling for members of its staff today after the manager of the New Kingston Branch, Everett Lloyd Chito, shot and killed his wife, Karla, and then committed suicide...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders involved in the 14th staging of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival are declaring it a whopping success and have heaped praises on the decision to move the annual festival from Montego Bay to the more spacious...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE JAMAICAN Government could be forced to recall health and Jamaica Defence Force personnel from Haiti this week as the country struggles with a $700,000-per-day operational bill.Jamaica is leading the CARICOM response in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake ...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THE POLICE in Old Harbour, St Catherine, are desperate for an increase in their numbers, as they struggle to deal with the rising crime rate in the town.Currently, 35 police personnel are stationed in Old Harbour, which is home to an estimated 53,000 people....

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

LASCO TOP Cop of the Year for 2008, Corporal Marvin Franklin, has called on male students to set discipline as a foundation that will enable changes and outcomes that may have seemed unattainable."All of you have the potential and the ability to do far...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law, who quickly disappeared behind the faded...

Published:Monday | February 1, 2010 | 12:00 AM

AMID REPORTS of child trafficking on the rise and reports that Haitian police have arrested 10 US citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country, the Jamaica Association of Young Professionals is calling...

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

MORE THAN 130 Jamaicans are waiting patiently in line to adopt children who are yet to be identified.

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

JAMAICAN PARENTS are usually very careful about who they leave their young daughters with but they will leave their sons with almost anybody, especially a woman.

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

FEMALE SEXUAL predators are on the prowl in Jamaica, targeting young boys, but most of these abusive acts are occurring below the radar.

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The vexed issue of teacher performance-based pay has encountered mixed comments from teachers, as well as persons outside the profession.

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): In a quake-smashed city where hundreds of thousands go to sleep hungry and hurting in sordid street camps, eight-year-old Benoit Wodson has at least a bunk bed, food and friends to play with on a lawn beneath the mango trees.

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

SOCIOLOGIST Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown has identified a new phenomenon of 'Western Union' children who have replaced the concept of 'barrel'...

Published:Sunday | January 31, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A 15-year-old Haitian girl of Jamaican parents is now with family members in Portland after being stranded for approximately three weeks on the earthquake ravaged streets of Port-au-Prince.

Published:Saturday | January 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

THURSDAY NIGHT'S Art of Music Talent Stage at the 14th renewal of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Trelawny served up an appetising mixture of roots rock reggae, rhythm and blues, and jazz music, which left a music-hungry audience wanting more.

Published:Saturday | January 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

PUBLIC DEFENDER Earl Witter is beseeching the country's police to place greater emphasis on the manner in which they engage citizens.

Published:Saturday | January 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A policeman who pleaded guilty to corruption charges two weeks ago was sentenced to nine months' hard labour in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Published:Saturday | January 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is to hold discussions with the Ministry of Finance on a new wage claim submitted by the association for the contract period 2010 to 2012.

Published:Saturday | January 30, 2010 | 12:00 AM

A senior representative of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has issued a dire forecast of the possible emergence of a number of new diseases in the coming years.

Published:Friday | January 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will lead a delegation to Beijing, China, from tomorrow - Saturday, February 6, for a series of high-level meetings that will cover energy, bauxite and major investments.The visit has been made possible through an invitation...

Published:Friday | January 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Jamaican diaspora group in Canada wants changes to the Constitution to bar Commonwealth citizens who are not Jamaicans from being eligible to sit in Parliament.At the same time, representatives from the diaspora have argued against giving Jamaicans overseas...

Published:Friday | January 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

AN UNFLATTERING comment on the Government's handling of the divestment of Air Jamaica to an overseas entity by a powerful diaspora group yesterday paved the way for sharp exchanges between at least two committee members in Gordon House...

Published:Friday | January 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The Jones Town community has plans to turn dusty unoccupied land into oases of food and plants in keeping with the idea of eating what you grow. The Jones Town Baptist Church and the Jamaica Baptist Union Mission Agency launched the initiative 'Farming inna the City'...

Published:Friday | January 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM

The education ministry has confirmed reports that this year's sitting of the Grade Six Achieve-ment Test (GSAT) has been delayed for one week. However, the ministry says this will not affect the date for the release of the results....

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