'Developed countries have not done enough' - Patterson urges assistance to realise UN goals
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has urged developed countries to do more to help developing countries achieve the United Nations (U.N.) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The MDGs involve the eradication of poverty and hunger...
12 KILLED IN A DAY - 29 murdered since Saturday
THE MONTH of September is shaping up to be one of the bloodiest on record with 12 persons being killed in a 24-hour period. At least 29 persons have been killed since Saturday, according to police reports.
Stand up against violence - Henry-Wilson
IN THE wake of increasing incidents of violence affecting schools, Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson yesterday urged administrators to take a strong stand against violence.
Seaga to be inducted as IOJ fellow
FORMER PRIME Minister Edward Seaga is to be inducted as a Fellow of the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ). According to the Council of the Institute of Jamaica, the conferral of this honour on Mr. Seaga...
Thwaites, Munroe eye constituencies
RONALD THWAITES, the former Central Kingston Member of Parliament who gave up the seat under controversial circumstances more than three years ago, will on Sunday make his bid to once again represent the violence-plagued constituency.
Autopsy for JPS workers
AN AUTOPSY is to be conducted on the bodies of three Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) employees who died in a well at the company's Old Harbour Bay plant last Saturday.
Five struck by lightning, two die
FIVE PERSONS were struck by lightning, two of them fatally, at a farm in Cousin's Cove district, Hanover, on Tuesday. Dead are Johane Jones, 23, and 27-year-old Godfrey Martin. Injured are Kevin Dawes, 33, Dudley Willy, 26, all of Cauldwell District...
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