'I am qualified'- Forbes blasts critics
NEW PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Mining and Telecommunications, Marcia Forbes, has fired back at her detractors who have charged that she was appointed to the post because of her relationship with the governing Jamaica...
St Elizabeth businessmen seek viable crime plan - Forum brings promise of better policing
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth:Deputy Commissioner of Police Charles Scarlett has said in recent times, there has been serious trafficking of illegal guns into St Elizabeth, causing scares in almost every...
Reading pays at all ages
BOTH THE young and old were well represented during yesterday's awards presentation of the 60th annual Jamaica Library Service National Reading Competition.
Double murder rocks rural community
RESIDENTS OF the usually quiet farming town of Font Hill, St Thomas, are still stunned by the murder of two women who were gunned down in the district of Davis Mountain, Thursday night.
'Parliamentary diplomacy' under way
A BRAZILIAN delegation comprising parliamentarians made a two-day visit to Jamaica this week to develop what is called 'parliamentary diplomacy''The president of the senate committee of Brazil, Heraclito Fortes, along with his team, held discussions...
Ministry to revise CSEC payment
GOVERNMENT WILL, this year, continue to pay for students to sit four subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, but has warned that a review of the payment scheme is coming.
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