Housing lifeline - Gov't planning to restart inner-city project
The Government is set to relaunch the Inner-City Housing Programme (ICHP), seven months after Prime Minister Bruce Golding put the brakes on it.Golding announced a suspension of the programme in his first...
Waul grabs Rhodes
After spending half an hour being grilled in an intense interview, 21-year-old Michael Waul yesterday emerged as the 2009 winner of the prestigious Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship.
Students held for weed, weapons seized
Fifteen students who attend schools in Kingston, St Andrew and St Catherine were arrested in October for possession of, dealing in and smoking marijuana.The students were referred either for counselling or to do...
Abduction hits Mona again
While the police are insisting that they have not received any widespread reports of rape and abduction, another woman was yesterday taken against her will and later thrown naked from a car in Mona, St Andrew.While residents suspect the victim was also...
Inter-American human rights group to observe Ja
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) says it will conduct an on-site visit to Jamaica from December 1-5 in response to an invitation from Prime Minister Bruce Golding.The visit will be the commission's first on-site visit to an...
BRIEFS
The 14-month-old administration of the Jamaica Labour Party goes into retreat on November 27 to carve out the first supplementary estimates of expenditure for the 2008-2009 fiscal year.Debate on the...
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