New child agency gets financial boost
THE MINISTRY of Health said $550 million will be used to finance the Child Development Agency (CDA) that is in transition to become an executive agency on April 1, 2004.
Clarendon housing deal signed
THE NATIONAL Housing Development Corporation (NHDC), in its continuing drive to satisfy the mandate from the Government of Jamaica to provide affordable housing solutions to its beneficiaries...
'Carib must unite to remain relevant'
PROFESSOR BRIAN Meeks, Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies (UWI), said countries in the region must unite to remain relevant in the global economy.
Alleged murder suspect killed
A MAN who the police said was a murder suspect and was among a group of gunmen who opened fire at them in Grants Pen, St. Andrew on Saturday afternoon, was shot dead and an illegal Taurus 9-mm semi-automatic pistol taken from him.
JLP wins recount in SE St Mary
A MAGISTERIAL recount on Friday declared that Hugh Anthony Bryan, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for the Annotto Bay division in South East St. Mary, clinched victory in the local polls by two votes.
Lee confident about Braeton by-election
GEORGE LEE, the newly-elected Mayor of the Portmore Municipality, who represented the People's National Party (PNP) in the recent Local Government elections...
Higgler arrested for counterfeit notes
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: CHARLES LLOYD, 33 years old, higgler of 4 Rivoli Avenue, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, was arrested and charged with possession of counterfeit notes on Tuesday, June 24, 2003...
'While children are left to be brutalised'
AT LAST week Thursday's opening of the joint Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and Ministry of Health Workshop on the Inter-American System for the Promotion and Defence of the Rights of the Child...
Sandals Ocho Rios hails fathers as heroes
THREE FATHERS - two veterans and one rookie - were honoured at Sandals Ocho Rios recently.
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