'Jamaica still weak on trafficking' - US wants more prosecutions, convictions - Says police corrupt
Jamaica is one of two CARICOM countries that remain on the United States' 'Special Watch List' for trafficking in persons, according to a 2007 State Department interim report. The U.S. State Department, in its interim assessment of 39 countries...
Woman lured to death... Met killer through cellphone chatroom
WESTERN BUREAU: It is believed that cellular technology is behind the demise of a Portland woman, whose body was discovered in the hilly terrain of Elgin Town in Hanover, yesterday. Investigators have detained a man in connection with the murder...
Dabdoub vows to tame Vaz... Says he will be campaigning for the PNP
Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Parliamentarian Abe Dabdoub says he will be campaigning against Daryl Vaz in West Portland whether or not he (Dabdoub) is the People's National Party (PNP) candidate. Speaking to The Gleaner last week...
Classes disrupted at three schools
Hundreds of students from three schools across the island were sent home yesterday after classes were disrupted for several reasons, including the poor condition at one institution. Classes were suspended at the Cascade Primary and Junior High School...
Man in airport car park killing remanded
WESTERN BUREAU: The ex-lover of the woman whose body was found in a bus at the Sangster International Airport car park in St. James earlier this month, was remanded in custody when he appeared before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court...
Female students quarrel, one stabbed
WESTERN BUREAU: Classes were disrupted at the Rusea's High School in Hanover yesterday following a dispute between two female students, one of whom was stabbed five times. The alleged assailant, who resides at Grange Hill, Westmoreland...
HOUSE OF THE DEAD
Death. Feared by all, but the one thing that's guaranteed in life. Well, that and taxes, of course. But while taxation causes many of us to go through life in poverty, death is often an opportunity to express our wildest fantasies...
Caribbean Maritime Institute vacancies
The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), the Caribbean's centre of excellence for tertiary maritime education, training, research and consultancy, invites applications from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following positions...
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