Budget cut looms - Over $71 billion to be allocated to Ministry of Finance
GOVERNMENT SPENDING for the new fiscal year has been cut by $9.8 billion from last year's revised...
Crime-fighting a top priority - GG
DURING THIS legislative year, the Government will be enacting several pieces of legislation, including an Anti-Terrorism Act, to curb the country's runaway crime rate. Other pieces of legislation that will be implemented...
Lock-up reports warned of major security risks
THREE WEEKS after the Spanish Town police filed the second of two reports alerting authorities about the unsafe conditions at the cell block, 17 prisoners cut themselves to freedom in a major jailbreak...
Portland Western PNP has slight edge
THE CONSTITUENCY of Portland Western is bounded by the following: from a point where the Guava River crosses the Portland/St. Thomas parish boundary, thence westerly along the...
$50m refurbishing of Forum Hotel to begin next week
THE JAMAICA Christian College plans to start a $50 million refurbishing project at the old Forum Hotel complex in Port Henderson, St. Catherine, next week. The college leased the property from the Urban Development Corporation...
New remand centre houses only 8
WHILE PRISONERS continue to escape from overcrowded jail cells, the new $442.7 million Horizon Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road in St. Andrew is home to only eight female inmates supervised by...
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