Vin gives in - Urban Development Corporation (UDC) boss quits all state boards
Following damning criticism in Contractor General Greg Christie's report on the Sandals Whitehouse hotel project, Dr. Vin Lawrence, chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), has resigned
GLEANER EDITORS' FORUM - Crime down in Grants Pen, but new woes hamper cops
The problem of immobility and the dwindling of their numbers could soon com-promise the success story of the newly-built Grants Pen Police Station in north St. Andrew. Speaking at a Gleaner Editors' Forum last week, the Grants Pen police said...
Literacy project for prisons
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: A comprehensive rehabilitation programme targeting illiteracy is to be embarked in the nation's correctional centres, says State Minister in the Ministry of National Security, Dr. Donald Rhodd.
UK university building named after Seacole
LONDON (JIS): A major landmark in Salford, England, has been dedicated to Jamaican nursing icon, Mary Seacole. The £22 million building at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, committed to inter-professional teaching and research in United Kin
Trinidad Chief Justice saved from arrest again
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): A High Court judge yesterday maintained an injunction preventing the arrest of embattled Trinidad and Tobago Chief Justice, Satnarine Sharma, even as she admitted that the court had been placed in a dilemma whether to lift i
Another censure bid today
A censure motion calling for the resignation of Minister of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce Phillip Paulwell, who has been accused of misleading Parliament and gross dereliction of duty, is to be debated in the House...
HIV+ citizens want drug subsidy
Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) want the Government to provide a subsidy for drugs to treat 'opportunistic infections'. Kemesha, a counsellor and PLWHA, explained that HIV breaks down the immune system...
'Horne must go'
Pointing to the potential for serious constitutional implications, Opposition Leader Bruce Golding yesterday urged Senator Norman Horne to resign from Parliament's Upper House following his decision to join the People's National Party (PNP).
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