Campbell resigns - Golding calls for Cabinet to go too
BLACK RIVER, St. Elizabeth: Opposition Leader, Bruce Golding, is insisting that the Government should resign over the Trafigura Beheer scandal. According to Mr. Golding, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will not accept the resignation of one...
PNP orders the return of $31m to Trafigura Beheer
Embattled Information and Development Minister, Colin Campbell, has been forced to resign from the Cabinet and from his post as general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP).
The rise and fall of Colin Campbell
WHEN Colin Campbell was named Minister of Information and general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP) by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in April, it resurrected a political career that hit the skids one year earlier.
Amputee wins $5m in damages
The Supreme Court has ordered the Government to pay more than $5 million with interest to 35-year-old farmer Howard Genas, whose right leg was amputated due to negligence.
Chang heads St George's Hall of Fame inductees
Gladstone Raymond Chang, the recently-appointed chancellor of Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, has been inducted into the St. George's College Hall of Fame. He was inducted on Saturday night during a banquet at the Hilton hotel in New Kingston.
Sickle Cell Support Club to launch education project
Jamaicans are highly aware of sickle cell disease when compared with larger countries, according to chairman for Sickle Cell Trust, Graham Serjeant. Currently, there are 375,000 people in Jamaica living with the disease.
Scores held after gun ammo raid
Forty-six persons are being detained for questioning following a joint police/military operation on Saturday night in Olympic Gardens, St. Andrew. During the operation, two firearms were seized and, according to the police...
Slain inmate identified
The Department of Correc-tions has released the name of the male inmate who was found dead at the Horizon Remand Centre. He is 27-year-old Shawn Clarke, also known as Seon. The Department of Corrections says Clarke was found dead...
Trafigura denies hand in Africa toxic waste deaths
TALLINN, Estonia (Reuters): A delegation from Côte d'Ivoire arrived in the central European state of Estonia on Friday as part of the investigation into the deadly discharge of toxic waste in West Africa.
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