WHERE ARE THEY? Police seek help to locate missing persons
THE POLICE yesterday called for public assistance in locating five persons, including four teenagers, who have gone missing within the past three months. However, the information arm of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) was hesitant to reveal...
Facelift coming for 12 inner-city communities
THE JAMAICA Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is set to inject nearly $2 billion into 12 inner-city communities across the island. The project will be conducted under the Inner City Basic Services Project ( ICBSP)to improve the quality of life...
How the squatters won
IT WAS one morning, some time in the early 1990s. She can't remember well. Sonia Ellis was trembling with her final eviction notice in her hand and she had no place to go.
From 'Hell' to oasis... but will it last?
'HELL' WAS a place at the bottom of Water Street in Kingston; a place where getting a shower in a public lavatory was often a fiercely-fought battle for decency, where neighbours, if they wished, could 'spite' you over a grouse...
Montego Bay cop facing assault charges
WESTERN BUREAU: A MONTEGO Bay policeman is facing charges of assault at common-law for an incident in which he allegedly pulled his service revolver on one of his superiors. The charges were levelled at the weekend against Constable Ricardo Evans...
Report: Unemployment figures show downward trend
UNEMPLOYMENT DROPPED by 0.5 per cent between 2004 and 2005, according to the latest report from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica. The 2005 Labour Force report, tabled in Parliament last week, indicated that the unemployed labour...
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