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Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 12:46 PM

The People’s National Party (PNP) wants the health Minister Rudyard Spencer to move quickly to stave off a possible strike by the island’s junior doctors.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 12:45 PM

The just under 50,000 students registered to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) are today sitting the second leg of the 2009 exam.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 12:45 PM

Alumina producers (ALPART) last night sent its final conveyor of bauxite from its Manchester based plant to its refinery in St Elizabeth as it prepares to suspend operations.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 12:44 PM

Two men were murdered in the Delacree Park housing scheme off Spanish Town Road, Kingston in separate incidents last night.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 12:44 PM

Within the next three months, the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) will implement a new system aimed at providing better service to the public.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 11:26 AM

Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to pay an official visit to the island from April 19-20, immediately following the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 11:10 AM

Detectives from St. Andrew South Homicide Unit are investigating two murders that occured at Delacree Park housing scheme, Kingston 11, last night.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 8:25 AM

Nearly three years after the murder of dancehall promoter Christine Hewitt-Gordon, police investigators have announced a major breakthrough in the case.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 8:24 AM

The Michael Lee-Chin led AIC (Barbados) Limited said it has been forced to restructure its obligation to creditors following significant liquidity pressures in the local and regional markets.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 8:23 AM

Another company has announced plans to cut jobs in light of the impact of the global economic downturn.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 8:22 AM

The President of the National Transport Cooperative Society, (NTCS) Ezroy Millwood, said he’s uncertain about the future of his company and bus operators.

Published:Friday | March 27, 2009 | 8:22 AM

Seven years after the passage of the Access to Information Act, the Officials Secrets Act is yet to be repealed.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:38 PM

A number of gas stations in the corporate area are now low on fuel in the wake of the strike action by tanker drivers on Tuesday.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:37 PM

The Association for the Resettlement of Returning Residents is reporting that since the start of the year, 27 returnees have been attacked on their way home from the airport.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:35 PM

Sagicor Financial Group today sent home more than 40 workers as part of what the company says is a comprehensive organisational restructuring.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:32 PM

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), is advising the public that March 31 is the deadline to register for the next voter’s list, which is to be published in May 2009.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:31 PM

The Education Ministry is reporting that there were only a few glitches today on day one of the Grade Six Achievement Test, GSAT.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:30 PM

The National Works Agency, NWA, has closed the section of Milford Road in Ocho Rios, St. Ann in the vicinity of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:30 PM

The health ministry has announced that more pharmacy technicians are to be recruited in the public system to ease the delays in dispensing medication.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 6:28 PM

The husband of the late Christine Hewitt has been charged with her murder. His arrest comes almost three years after she was killed in St. Catherine.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 3:35 PM

The Central Village Police in St. Catherine South are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting death of a man at his home at Browns Lane, Central Village this morning.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 3:31 PM

The National Security Minister Colonel Trevor McMillan has demanded a report from the Jamaica Defence Force regarding the conduct of two soldiers at a crime scene yesterday.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 3:31 PM

The body of 31 year old Kirk Headley of Paddington Terrace, Kingston 6 was found suspended from a length of rope from the rear patio of his home this morning.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 12:43 PM

Investigators are at this hour questioning reggae artiste Luciano in connection with yesterday’s shootout between a gunman and the police at his St. Andrew home studio.

Published:Thursday | March 26, 2009 | 12:42 PM

There is no word yet as to whether the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) will take action against two soldiers for their conduct while on duty at the crime scene yesterday.

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