Price hike bites - Unions to lobby for double-digit wage rise
PROMPTED BY rising prices for goods and services, the trade union representing civil servants yesterday signalled its intention to seek double-digit increases when a wage restriction agreement with Government ends next March.
Jamaica grab two more medals
HELSINKI, Finland: JAMAICA'S TOP two female 100 metres hurdlers, Delloreen Ennis-London and Brigitte Foster-Hylton, kept their outstanding form to the end to walk away with silver and bronze medals in a dramatic final last night...
T&T cops detain bombing suspect
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP): POLICE HAVE detained a suspect and were searching for two others in the bombing of a busy street in Trinidad's capital, police said yesterday.
PAJ says press won't back down
WESTERN BUREAU: PRESIDENT OF the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), Desmond Richards, has declared that the media will not be pressured into abandoning their responsibility to report the news accurately, regardless of whose interest is affected.
Two men get 37 years for kidnapping J'can in UK
LONDON, England: TWO MEN who kidnapped a Jamaican in England, were sentenced to a total of 37 years on charges of false imprisonment, blackmail and firearms-related offences.
IACHR to award two fellowships to Caribbean journalists
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: THE INTER-AMERICAN Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will be awarding two fellowships to journalists from the Caribbean, later this year. Clare Kamau Roberts, president of the IACHR made the announcement...
Candlelight vigil for hit-and-run victims
A CANDLELIGHT vigil is scheduled for Walderston Square in Manchester today to mark the recent death of two women. Maizie Powell and Mondle Muir died in separate hit-and-run speeding incidents within minutes of each other...
Police Federation defends Flankers six
THE POLICE Federation has come out in defence of the six policemen to be arrested for the controversial killings of two senior
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