'Sandals playing politics' - Allegations that layoffs timed to sway St Lucia elections
St. Lucia's attorney-General, Victor La Corbiniere, claimed yesterday that Gordon 'Butch' Stewart's Sandals hotel chain timed the layoff of 100 employees in that Eastern Caribbean island to hurt the ruling St. Lucia Labour Party...
UK blacks at no greater risk of schizophrenia - Hickling
A leading Jamaican psychiatrist has dismissed as flawed, frequent studies showing that black persons in Britain are more likely to be schizophrenic than their white compatriots.
Fullerton's $6m bail extended
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday extended the $6 million bail of Nicole Fullerton, former acting operations manager of the failed Caldon Merchant Bank, who was taken into custody Tuesday after she attempted to leave the island.
UK Privy Council denies Genius appeal
The United Kingdom (U.K.) Privy Council has upheld the decision of Director of Public Prosecutions Kent Pantry, Q.C., not to prosecute the policemen who were implicated in the fatal shooting of Patrick Genius.
'Crime reduction efforts marred'
Deputy Commissioner of Police Les Green says the recent spate of multiple killings is casting a shadow on the police's crime reduction efforts. He was speaking following yesterday's triple murder in Riverton City, St. Andrew.
More cops this Christmas
Christmas will see an additional 400-500 police personnel on the streets, under the Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) seasonal redeployment. Speaking yesterday at a JCF press conference at the Police Officers' Club on Hope Road, St. Andrew...
Local Government audit flawed
The revelation by Local Government Minister Dean Peart that a team of auditors from his ministry was not aware of a critical Cabinet decision of 2001 on the award of contracts in parish councils could result in a revision...
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