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WESTERN BUREAU:Director of Consular Services at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Julian Braithwaite, says there is a 67 per cent reduction in the number of British nationals in Jamaican prisons, resulting from...

WESTERN BUREAU:As at Friday coming, patrons attending the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival will have to search hard to find rooms on the island's north coast between Ocho Rios and Montego Bay.Checks made by The Sunday...

Businesswoman and former head of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA), Doreen Frankson, is blaming incompetent politicians, past and present, for the economic woes facing the country.She also chided fellow...

Several youth group leaders have called for the removal of the youth portfolio from incumbent minister, Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, who they believe is not managing the responsibility well.

In a bid to improve the rate of conviction of alleged sex offenders, Children's Advocate Mary Clarke is lobbying legislators for a speedy amendment of the Evidence Act to facilitate the lawful submission of taped testimony as evidence because appearing...

The Chinese government has provided US$3million to Jamaica for the creation of a Chinese traditional garden at the Hope Gardens, St Andrew.

TREASURER OF the National Youth Parliamentary Watch Committee Jeffrey Brown has argued that heads of government who succeeded the late former prime ministers Michael Manley and Edward Seaga have done little to advance the cause of the country."It was...

A GOVERNMENT project designed to supply local fruit juice to the national school-feeding programme is nowhere near to getting off the ground a year after its scheduled start-up date.

SUPREME COURT Judge Lloyd Hibbert has been appointed to act on the Court of Appeal bench effective February 1.

ENDING A 13-year dispute touched off by Princess Diana knickknacks, Los Angeles law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips will pay US$25 million to settle a malicious-prosecution lawsuit brought by Los Angeles businessman Stewart Resnick and his wife,...

THE POLICE High Command has reacted strongly to what it describes as two particularly barbaric incidents perpetrated by criminals in St Catherine and St Andrew over the past 24 hours.At the same time, investigators have...

A DARING attempted daylight hold-up of a public-passenger vehicle yesterday by three hoodlums in sticky mid-afternoon traffic ended with five persons, including two gunmen, dead.