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Reggae Girlz presented with Key to the City of Montego Bay
MONTEGO BAY: The members of the Jamaica senior women’s football team have been presented with the Key to the City of Montego Bay. The presentation was made to the Reggae Girlz captain Konya Plummer this morning by Mayor of Montego Bay,...
CommentsAnother top official quits the Trump administration
United States (US) Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is to demit office at the end of the year, the latest high-profile departure from the Trump administration. US President Donald Trump confirmed Zinke’s departure in a message posted on Twitter...
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'Name them' - Wehby wants companies that benefited from Petrojam breaches made public
One Government senator has joined the call for the Andrew Holness administration to publicly name the companies that got contracts from the state-owned oil refinery, Petrojam, that were found to be in breach of government procurement rules.Further,...
CommentsCop escapes jail time, fined $1m for shooting pregnant woman
WESTERN BUREAU:Senior Superintendent of Police Anthony Castelle, who collapsed in court three weeks ago when he was found guilty for shooting a pregnant woman in Montego Bay, escaped a prison term but was fined $1 million when he appeared in the St...
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Inside the Municipal Corporation: Mayor to take a child home for Christmas
PORT MARIA, St Mary:Mayor of Port Maria Richard Creary is showing a heart this Christmas. Creary says he has applied to the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) to be part of the Take a Child Home for Christmas programme, and hopes...
CommentsAbsent councillors threatened with budget cut
Fed up with councillors' non-attendance at meetings, chairman of the St Mary Municipal Corporation and Mayor of Port Maria Richard Creary has threatened to take action.Addressing the corporation's monthly meeting on Thursday, Creary said come next...
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Reggae Girlz welcome World Cup celebration - Women footballers honoured with massive motorcade, four days of festivities
With a series of events set for the next few days, Elaine Walker-Brown, Chairman of the Jamaica Football Federation's women's football committee, said the appreciation and acknowledgement the Reggae Girlz will receive for their...
CommentsBGLC looking to hand over Diamond Mile
Executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Vitus Evans says that the organisation is actively looking for a sponsor to take over the high-profile Diamond Mile race day product.The event, which was created five years...
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Berger Jamaica now producing former rival Penta brand
Once its foreign import rival in the paint market, Berger has brought the production of Penta paints in-house, a new arrangement that migrates manufacturing business formerly done in Trinidad...
CommentsStewart's Auto to set up new complex in Kingston
Stewart's Automotive Group, one of the largest car dealers in Jamaica, plans to build a large complex spanning over 5,000 square metres on South Avenue in Kingston.The company is pumping more than US$...
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Miss World Caribbean Kadijah Robinson - not just a pageant girl
Twenty-three-old Kadijah Robinson has won the hearts of her fellow Jamaicans following her top-five placement at the recent Miss World competition.The pageant finals, which were held in Sanya, China, last Saturday, saw more than 100 women across the...
CommentsCampion Chapel Choir celebrates Mozart's Coronation Mass
Wolfgang Mozart composed one of his most popular musical pieces, Ordinary of the Mass, in 1779. But as early as the 19th century, it was widely referred to as Coronation Mass, "after becoming the preferred music for royal and imperial coronations"....
CommentsLetter of the Day | State of emergency must turn on sobriety, not noise
THE EDITOR, Sir: Jamaica has had a long, chequered and appalling history of suppression of crime strategies. In this conundrum, many young men have died unnecessarily or have been incarcerated. Oftentimes, the possession of a ganja spliff was...
CommentsThose sleeping policemen of Liguanea and Papine
THE EDITOR, Sir: Driving through Liguanea and Papine is extremely treacherous. Let’s start at the Hope Road entrance for Sovereign heading towards Matilda’s Corner. The taxis stop to pick up and let off passengers at that Sovereign...
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Hemp set to become legal nationwide in US
PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) — Hemp is about to get the nod from the federal government that marijuana, its cannabis plant cousin, craves. A provision of the farm bill that received final approval in Congress on Wednesday removes hemp from the...
CommentsTurkey train crash leaves nine dead, dozens injured
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) —Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have detained three state railway agency employees suspected of negligence over a deadly train crash in the capital Ankara. Anadolu Agency says the three were detained...
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Editorial | Mental health: a village at a time
Tony Deyal | Laying down the law