'Prove it!'

Minister of state for Water and Housing, Everald Warmington dispatched a detailed letter late yesterday to Contractor General Greg Christie, rebuffing claims of impropriety as a government minister or parliamentarian....

Customs yet to decide on seizing other Key Motors clients' vehicles

THE DEPARTMENT OF CUSTOMS says it might decide against seizing the remaining uncustomed vehicles sold to unsuspecting victims by Key Motors if the company makes full restitution to the Government. Danville Walker, commissioner of customs...

Farmer finds 'reprieve' in exotics, innovation

Can you imagine avocadoes at the Christmas dinner table or jackfruit without that stain and pungent fragrance? Or, can you recognise longan, a small fleshy guinep-like fruit from the lychee family?...

More fears over fingerprints

Concerns over the alleged misuse of fingerprinting data just won't go away, since law-enforcement personnel scooped up numerous Jamaicans in raids following the west Kingston incursion in late May. Another dimension...

New JTA boss wants 'meeting of the minds'

OCHO RIOS, St Ann: Newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy, is calling for stakeholders to come together and address the ills of the education system in Jamaica....

Dead employees still pulling down salaries on gov't bill

The Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) says it has uncovered several discrepancies in the public sector, including salary payments to dead workers on the Government's payroll....

Delays at KPH, VJH as workers protest

Scores of persons who turned up at the Kingston Public and Victoria Jubilee hospitals yesterday had an extended wait as some administrative staff staged a one-hour protest....

The spirit of Garvey lives on

EIGHTY-ONE years after its founding, Marcus Garvey's People's Political Party (PPP) has received a makeover by the hand of a small but passionate group of new-generation Garveyites. The PPP meets Thursday nights at the Monica...

Judge denies killer's appeal for early release

A murder convict who applied to the Supreme Court for his immediate release, because he had already served 14 years, had his application turned down after Justice Glen Brown ruled the killer must serve more time...

Soldier to be sentenced August 25

Jamaica Defence Force soldier Leslie Moodie is to be sentenced in the Home Circuit Court on August 25 for four counts of murder. Moodie, 23, should have been sentenced Monday, but an adjournment had to be granted because his character witnesses...

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