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Fired OCG workers take contractor general to court
CHRISTIE could be asked to tell court reasons for dismissals
THREE former employees of the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) were yesterday granted ex parte leave for a judicial review into their dismissal from the organisation....more
Saturday, July 04, 2009
EASTON Edwards, Jamaica Labour Party councillor for the Lucea division in Hanover, was yesterday charged with manslaughter in the death of his five-year-old son, Lennon, whose lifeless body was found in the family car on Tuesday afternoon....more
New ideas to push region forward
Saturday, July 04, 2009
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Two new ideas for improved governance and avoidance of conflicts in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are in circulation here as the 30th Heads of Government Co nference draws to a close this evening....morePatterson urges 'all hands on deck' to prevent Caricom collapse
Saturday, July 04, 2009
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Warning that a collapse of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is not an option, Jamaica's former prime minister, PJ Patterson, has urged "all hands on deck" to ensure the sustainability of the regional enterprise....moreGolding congratulates Patterson on OCC award
Saturday, July 04, 2009
GEORGETOWN, Guyana Prime Minister Bruce Golding has heaped praises on former Prime Minister PJ Patterson after he was conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community (OCC)....moreJAS abandoned core values Rickards
Saturday, July 04, 2009
JAMAICA Agricultural Society (JAS) presidential candidate Allan Rickards says the organisation has abandoned its core values, and promised to return it to its original function, if elected the new head....moreJDF sub lieutenant to join crew on Chilean navy ship
Saturday, July 04, 2009
TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD sub lieutenant Leonard Wynter will on Tuesday join the crew of the Esmeralda a Chilean truing ship for a six-week voyage that will take him to Colombia and Ecuador on the way back to Chile....moreCervical cancer kills four J'can women each week
Saturday, July 04, 2009
THE medical data is stunning. Every week an estimated four women in Jamaica die from cervical cancer at a rate of approximately 15 out of every thousand of the population....moreToo many boys being born in Vietnam
Saturday, July 04, 2009
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples on how to have a baby of their desired sex, state-linked media said yesterday....moreThirty-one South African boys die from botched circumcision
Saturday, July 04, 2009
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape region, officials said yesterday....moreFriday, July 03, 2009
FOUR men, including two brothers who were members of the British Link Up Crew, were shot and killed and another man injured at the Live Wire Sports Bar and Grill, formerly known as La Roose, at Port Henderson Road in St Catherine, late Wednesday night....moreFriday, July 03, 2009
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - The first glimmer of hope for a new and better form of governance for the Caribbean Community came yesterday at the Caucus Session of Caricom leaders here where they are meeting for the 30th heads of government conference....moreFriday, July 03, 2009
In the story entitled Guardsman wins 40 per cent of Government security contracts published in the Wednesday's Business Observer, it was incorrectly stated that the Kenny Benjamin-led Guardsman Group was awarded $500 million worth of government security contracts over the 12-month period ending May 2008. In actuality, Guardsman Group was awarded $500 million worth of government security contracts over the 12-month period ending May 2009. We regret the error....moreFriday, July 03, 2009
Three of the police force's major units are being merged in what the top brass say is a move to strengthen the constabulary's structure and organisation to respond more effectively to the international connections being established by criminals in Jamaica....moreBSI making progress, says Supt Gause
Friday, July 03, 2009
THE head of the Bureau of Special Investigation (BSI), the arm of the constabulary that investigates questionable shootings, yesterday dismissed claims by rights groups that it has been tardy in carrying out its work....moreMurders continue to trend down
Friday, July 03, 2009
FEWER murders were committed between January and June this year, when compared to the same period last year, continuing a downward trend that started earlier in the year....more
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