Companies exempted from submitting '06 contract reports
Contractor General Greg Christie has said that several public bodies have been exempted from submitting their 2006 second- and third-quarter contract award reports ...
Cockpit Country - a pharmaceutical gold mine?
WESTERN BUREAU: Declaring the Cockpit Country a potential pharmaceutical gold mine, Chairman of the South Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA), Hugh Dixon, believes ...
Don't shoot the messenger!
A few days ago, a friend called me seeking my advice about something.
The Week That Was Jan. 7-13: Face to face with a gunman
"An encounter with death," is how Pastor Glen Samuels described his experience staring down the barrel of a semi-automatic pistol while returning home to West Gate Hills in Montego Bay about 7:30 one evening.
Sentenced to church
The term 'Restorative justice' does not mean much to many Jamaicans, but for 25-year-old, Marlon Longford, it is an intervention that saved him from facing a 13-year prison sentence.
Man demands answers for brother's death after arrest
ANDREW Scott was a healthy fireman who died at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) in Kingston on December 19 last year, one month after being taken into police custody for fraud.
Over 10,000 trained under Government's IT policy
A report done by the planning division of the Technology Ministry has pointed out that, contrary to popular opinion, the INTEC Project which disbursed some J$700 million in loans to IT businesses...
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