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THE MANAGING director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Paul Abrahams, has given an upbeat diagnosis of the ailing organisation's balance sheet, suggesting there will soon be an improvement in its financial health....

Samuel Brown, the St Mary-born educator who became the first elected black mayor in Broward County, Florida, died February 3 at the age of 87.Brown served three terms as mayor of Lauderdale Lakes for 10 years from 1998-2008.

A man who tricked a teenager who was on her way to St Elizabeth, and then took her to his home, where he robbed her, is to serve seven years' imprisonment...

THE MUCH-HERALDED six anti-crime bills, which have remained off the Government's priority legislative agenda for well over a year, are back in the news, following the publication of a United States report on Monday...

Despite the Government's refusal to approve the University of Technology's (UTech) ambitious proposal to lease the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium and its facilities for use as its western campus, Professor Errol Morrison...

THE THREE new constituencies created by the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) appear to give an advantage to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) based on the 2007 general election results. Two new constituencies...

The Government is appealing a Supreme Court ruling that it must pay $1.5 million, with interest, for loss of use of a BMW motor car it seized from a couple in January 2006.The car was seized on the basis that the correct...

Too few Jamaican men are being tested for prostate cancer, says Dr William Aiken, consulting urologist at the University Hospital of the West Indies. Data from the Jamaica Cancer Society (JCS) showed that the organisation screened ...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland: With the police taking a stringent no-nonsense approach to the Noise Abatement Act , promoters are of the view that unless a compromise is found, Negril's entertainment industry could become unappealing...

Do I have to write a letter or can I just hand the receipt to someone to collect my passport? Applicants who wish to have another person collect a passport on their behalf must give the authorised individual...

Fibroid, uterine fibroid, tumour, fibroid tumour, growth, leiomyoma, fibroma, and fibromyoma - different names for a condition that may affect as many as 80 per cent of women. Fibroids are non-cancerous growths or tumours of the uterus that arise...

Business operators in Negril say they are losing huge sums because of the stringent implementation of the Noise Abatement Act."Right now my business is in ruins because I am no longer able to stage major events at MXIII,"...

NEGRIL, Westmoreland: The state-owned Frome Sugar Factory in Westmoreland is reportedly enjoying one of the smoothest periods of operation in as many years, but the yield of sugar is projected to be below its potential nonetheless....