Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) goes to teachers with latest perks offer
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) yesterday reneged on its threat to take industrial action this week if the Government did not present teachers with an acceptable offer. Instead, the JTA has called parish mobilisation meetings...
Gun killings rock Montego Bay
WESTERN BUREAU: A wave of gun violence over the past 48 hours has rattled the western city of Montego Bay, claiming the lives of three men and injuring four others, and thus putting a damper on recent police reports that the lawmen were collaring crime.
Baugh raps PNP's funds distribution - Says Government of Jamaica playing politics with constituencies' money
Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Dr. Kenneth Baugh, has accused the Government of allocating funding for critical development in constituencies along partisan lines.
Cops await new offer
The Jamaica Police Federa-tion is expected to receive an improved wage offer from the Government today as both parties seek resolution to months-long salary negotiations. Corporal Raymond Wilson, president of the federation, told The Gleaner...
Ex-deacon's sex case heads to Circuit Court
WITH RESIDENT Magistrate Martin Gayle last Friday ordering the prosecution to contact the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to have Donovan Jones and his co-accused face trial quickly...
'GILBERT' memories - A September to remember
Today is the 18th anniversary of the monstrous Hurricane Gilbert's rampage of Jamaica. The Category Four hurricane had winds of up to 184 mph and was the first hurricane to make direct landfall in Jamaica since 1951...
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