Foreign recruitment concerns cops
BOTH THE Police Officers Association (POA) and the Police Federation are expressing concern about advertisements seeking to recruit policemen from overseas to fill positions for assistant commissioner in the Jamaica Constabulary Force...
Traffic deaths on the decline
THERE HAS been a reduction in the number of persons who have died in motor vehicle accidents islandwide in 2005 when compared to the corresponding period last year.
WHO urges use of more generic HIV drugs
DR. ANTONIO Gerbassie, medical officer in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) department of HIV/AIDS in Switzerland, says countries should be allowed to embrace more generic HIV medication in the treatment of the infection.
Student on gun charge
A 17-YEAR-OLD male student of the St. Elizabeth Technical High School has been charged with illegal possession of a firearm. He is expected to appear in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court...
Monsignor Albert proposes committee to address violence
ROMAN CATHOLIC vicar, Monsignor Richard Albert, has blasted Jamaica's politicians for many of the social ills, among them crime and violence, which are plaguing the country.
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