Municipal police to hit the streets
Spanish Town, St Catherine: Thirty members of the municipal police graduated yesterday, at Twickenham Park in St Catherine, after completing a three-week course in police techniques and procedures, statement writing, operations of councils, public speaking, code of ethics...
Change in laws to curtail corruption
As part of efforts to fight corruption internationally, the Government has agreed to far-reaching changes to Jamaican laws to satisfy the requirements of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The Bruce Golding administration is now moving to ratify ...
Survey reveals health providers wary of morning-after pill
A study conducted in Jamaica and Barbados has revealed that several health care providers have at some point refused to provide emergency contraception to women who were in need of it. According to the study, titled Jamaican and Barbadian Health Care Providers...
Church welcomes religious tourism
The Government's plan to construct a 5,000-seating capacity convention centre in 2009, as it works to bring a structured focus on launching Jamaica as a major religious tourism destination, has been welcomed by several religious leaders....
National Commercial Bank (NCB) joins Northern Caribbean University (NCU) to train nurses
National Commercial Bank (NCB) and Northern Caribbean University (NCU) will jointly finance scholarships for 25-30 new students entering the Hyacinth Chen School of Nursing, which will be officially opened at NCU on August 10.The tuition scholarships,...
Navigating through the army
Buckfield was largely a coconut plantation, a thousand metres from the sea, off the main road of Ocho Rios, St Ann, when Admiral Hardley Lewin was growing up in the late '50s and '60s. His step father, Alderman Cover, served on cruise ships and Lewin's mother moved to Nassau...
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