Comrades lambaste Meeks
THE PEOPLE'S National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) has disparaged a recommendation in the Meeks' Report that the organisation be disbanded. The report was commissioned by the PNP after it lost the September 3, 2007, General Election to the Jamaica Labour Party....
Confessions of a paedophile - Repentant child molester warns parents to beware
A self-proclaimed paedophile has seemingly been spurred to make a confession of his own after a recent revelation by a police constable.The child molester said Detective Constable Carey Lyn-Sue's confession in court about fabricating evidence against a young man...
Donated organ changes teen's blood type
A 15-year-old Australian girl has become the first known transplant patient to change blood groups to take on the immune system of her organ donor.The "one in six billion miracle", as it is being called, could lead to breakthroughs in organ-transplant...
Best wishes, Dr Davis
The country's first executive Cabinet secretary, Dr Carlton Davis, who worked alongside three prime ministers and served in the bauxite industry under the Edward Seaga administration of the 1980s, is to go on retirement soon. After 40 years of unbroken service as a public servant...
'She gave up her life for us' - Mother testifies against gunmen, slain
Sensing that she would soon be killed, an emotional Angela Rodney, visited her elder sister last week and explained to relatives that it might be the last time they would be seeing her alive, because very soon she was going to be killed. On Monday, exactly five days later...
List of Government consultants submitted
Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw has tabled a document with the Government's list of 90 consultants in Parliament yesterday in response to a request by Member of Parliament Deacon Ronald Thwaites. With a number of agencies under its control...
Primary schools falling below attendance targets
Attendance in most of Jamaica's schools has fallen below the standards set by the Ministry of Education, with primary schools recording 82.2 per cent attendance in 2005/2006. This is almost eight points below the 90 per cent established by the ministry to achieve...
RJR Sports Foundation's 2007 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year
World Championships 100 metres gold medallist Veronica Campbell-Brown and world 100 metres record holder Asafa Powell were crowned RJR Sports Foundation's 2007 Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel last night.
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