PNP promises - Growth of two to six per cent - Increased funding for education - More job opportunities - Assault on illegal drug trade
THE GOVERNING People's National Party (PNP) yesterday launched its 2002 election manifesto with five main planks running the gamut from economic growth and job creation to providing quality education and health care...
Court battle intensifies over Yap Jack bypass
JUSTICE GLORIA Smith yesterday ordered that the minutes from a hearing held at the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) on March 8 this year be made available to the court today, as the legal battle between the OUR and Web Communications...
PM accuses Seaga of 'dissing' electorate
PRESIDENT OF the People's National Party (PNP), Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, has accused Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Edward Seaga of disrespecting the Jamaican people. Speaking at a political rally in Naggo Head in Portmore...
Veteran broadcaster Dwight Whylie passes on
JOURNALIST AND chairman of the Broadcasting Commission, Dwight Whylie, died suddenly of a heart attack in Barbados on Sunday. The 66-year-old Mr. Whylie was in that country as chief judge at the Caribbean Broadcasting Union's (CBU) media awards.
It's a girl for Carla
THE BABY was delivered by Caesarean section by a medical team led by Dr. Shaun Wynter, and included Drs. Vernon DaCosta, Stuart Murray, Priscilla Morais and Professor Hugh Wynter, for whom special praises were reserved.
Witnesses urged to reduce case backlog
THE MICHAELMAS session of the Home Circuit Court opened yesterday with Justice Lennox Campbell making an impassioned plea for witnesses to come forward so that the huge backlog of murder cases can be disposed of expeditiously.
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