Brighter times ahead for Trelawny
WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA PUBLIC Service Company (JPSCo.) has given its commitment to Trelawny that its defective streetlights would be repaired or replaced by Christmas.
Flexi-time debate coming
MINISTER OF Labour and Social Security Horace Dalley has said that a joint committee of parliament is to be established to debate flexi-time arrangements to afford all interested parties a final opportunity to put their case before lawmakers.
DNA test clears rape convict
A MAN who was serving a seven-year prison sentence for rape was freed yesterday after DNA tests proved that the did not commit the offence.
Constituency increase under examination
A COMMITTEE of the House of Representatives, examining the possibility of increasing the number of electoral constituencies, is holding off on its decision until it hears from the Electoral Advisory Committee (EAC).
Jamaica - fixing what's broken
JAMAICA SEEMS to have an uncanny ability of fixing what ain't broke and sticking with what ain't working. Our problems persist like perennials, flourishing alongside endemic frustration, disrespect and distrust decade after decade.
Indomitability of the human spirit
The following are excerpts of a speech by Professor Trevor Munroe. It was presented on Saturday night at the installation and awards ceremony of the Optimist Club of Trafalgar at Paradise Cafe.
JFK: The road to Dallas (Part I)
ON SATURDAY, 40 years will have passed since that day when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was felled by an assassin's bullet. - Dan Rather
The enigma of John F Kennedy
FORMER UNITED States President Lyndon B. Johnson is only a black-and-white sound-bite in History Channel documentaries for the most of today's audience, but John F. Kennedy, who preceded him as president...
Positioning education as Ja's major development tool
This is an excerpt of a speech by Dr. Ralph Thompson at the Fourth Annual W.D. Carter Memorial Lecture held at the Northern Caribbean University on Tuesday.
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