Cop cites corruption - Narcotics police blast politicians for accepting dirty money
DENOUNCING AS hypocritical concerns raised in Parliament about the drug trade and its link to politics, the narcotics police say the political process is in danger of being over-run by dirty money.
Who will take the fall?
THE POLICE have concluded that Danwill Construction Limited obtained more than $341 million based on false payment certificates submitted to the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC)/ Operation PRIDE. Payment made was in excess of the...
Jamaica still No. 1 in the Caribbean
WESTERN BUREAU: AFTER TAKING the runner-up slot last year, Jamaica is back atop the Caribbean Travel and Life Magazine's "Best of the Caribbean 2003", upstaging several other regional islands, including Aruba and the Bahamas, which placed second and...
Mary's Child - a home for pregnant teens in crisis
SEVENTY-FIVE per cent of the girls at Mary's Child centre for pregnant teens were processed through the Children's Services Division of the Ministry of Health. The girls range in ages between 12 and 17 currently. However, in the past, pregnant girls...
Gov't denies corruption charges - 'This administration has done more to quell corruption' - Phillips
ACTING PRIME Minister and Minister of National Security, Dr. Peter Phillips, said charges of corruption levelled against the Government are mostly unfounded and smacks of political opportunism.
What's an Opposition to do?
POOR EDWARD SEAGA. Any which way him turn, dawg bite him. Just over a week ago he and his Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) were being taken to task, by the media and sectors of a disaffected civil society, for their near absence...
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