Reese eyes commish job - Prison boss shortlisted for police top post in Jamaica
Another former army man has reportedly expressed an interest in becoming Jamaica's next Commissioner of Police, Gleaner sources have confirmed. He is retired Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) officer, Major Richard Reese, the commissioner of corrections, who four years ago...
Major victory for Mair
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Gregory Mair scored a major victory yesterday when Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh ruled that the election petition served on him alleging that he has dual citizenship was not served in accordance with the law.
Executive director shows why Women's Centre is a place …'Weir' teenage moms are first
She was a teenage mother who got pregnant at age 19. Today, Beryl Weir, executive director of the Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), sits at the helm of the institution which assists teenage mothers and helps them make a smooth transition back into the education system.
DAY 19 - No pesticide in Woolmer blood samples, says UWI professor
PROFESSOR DAS Gupta, head of the Pesticide Research Laboratory at the University of the West Indies, yesterday testified that new tests done on samples from Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer found no trace of cypermethrin. The India-born Gupta was one of three persons who gave testimony...
'Awareness high, arousal higher' - Research shows boys more easily influenced by web sex than health promotion campaigns
The proliferation of sexually explicit websites on the Internet, and easy access to these by male adolescents, is having a negative effect on the campaign to change risky behaviours among them and, by extension, the campaign to reduce HIV/AIDS infection. So states community clinical...
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