A-G raps Intec Fund - Strachan cites mismanagement
AUDITOR-GENERAL Adrian Strachan has painted a damning picture of mismanagement and breach of proper procedure in the handling of the Intec Fund from which more than $700 million was used to finance several call centre...
Privy Council's death sentence decision to affect Jamaica
A RULING by the United Kingdom Privy Council on Monday, striking down the mandatory death sentences imposed on murder convicts in the Eastern Caribbean and Belize, will also have implications for the imposition of death sentences...
Patterson denies Parish Council amalgamation
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has denied there is to be an amalgamation of the St. James and Trelawny Parish Councils on April 1. In a press release which his office said was in response to a letter from...
The case of the missing persons
SOME ARE reported missing but return home after a day or two. Others, like 39-year-old Byron Miller and son Shanado, never showed up. While the police can only speculate based on circumstantial evidence that they may still be alive...
Business leaders stage anti-cess protest at Gordon House
THEY BORE no placards but business leaders managed to command the attention of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, some Cabinet Ministers and other Members of Parliament in their demonstration against the imposition of...
Cops rescue fishermen from gunmen
TWO FISHERMEN from Portland Cottage in Clarendon were rescued yesterday morning by the police after they were abducted from their home and taken to Kingston by four gunmen. The Constant Spring police have since seized two vehicles that...
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