THE snail’s pace at which the Ministry of Youth and Culture, headed by Minister Lisa Hanna, has been moving to establish youth information centres (YICs), which are said to be critical to engaging at-risk youth across the island, did not go down well with some members of parliament on Tuesday.
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EDUCATION Minister Ronald Thwaites says the ministry has done away with the long-standing and inappropriate practice where members of Parliament unilaterally decided who would become chairmen of school boards in their constituencies.
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SALT LAKE CITY, USA (AP) — A wall of water swept away two vehicles carrying women and children in a Utah-Arizona border town, killing at least eight people and leaving five others missing in a community that served as a home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, authorities said.
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A special audit of the National People’s Cooperative Bank of Jamaica (NPCB) has uncovered the shocking misuse of the money of the more than 200,000 members of the bank, and rampant abuse of position by those in charge at the institution, resulting in over $665 million, or 21 per cent of members’ deposits, unaccounted for.
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NINE of the eleven Jamaicans incarcerated in Cuba have been pardoned by the Cuban Government and will return to Jamaica in the coming days, Jamaica’s foreign ministry announced yesterday.
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RICHMOND, St Mary — Arsonists yesterday destroyed a car and left fire damage to a section of the family home of Shaneke Williams — the co-accused of businessman and former parish councillor Don Creary — when they fire-bombed the premises at Comfort Valley here in Richmond, St Mary.
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HUNDREDS of nurses who reported sick on Tuesday, crippling operations at the island’s public hospitals and clinics, are expected to return to work today.
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GORSTEW Ltd yesterday renewed its application seeking leave for judicial review of a magistrate’s decision to acquit three former Appliance Traders Ltd (ATL) executives in the billion-dollar pension fraud case.
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ONE in every 10 Jamaican men will develop prostate cancer, according to urologist Hope Russell.
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THE service pistol of Constable Lynden Barrett — who was brutally murdered by gunmen in Denham Town on Tuesday, July 21 — was recovered by the police on Wellington Street, Kingston 14 yesterday.
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AN elderly St Andrew farmer who allegedly killed his brother during a dispute over a piece of pork had his bail extended when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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WASHINGTON, DC, USA (CMC) — The World Bank is warning developing economies, including those in the Caribbean, to brace for “possible financial market turbulence” from the upcoming US monetary policy-tightening cycle.
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SENIOR Superintendent of Police (SSP) Fitz Bailey has been reassigned to head the Clarendon Division, the Police High Command announced Tuesday.
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ELEVEN judges were Monday sworn in to serve in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.
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DIRECTOR of community services at the National Youth Service (NYS), Nickeasha Lindsay, says the Graduate Work Experience Programme has been successful in helping to provide work experience for young people.
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