THE Minimum Wage Advisory Commission is in the process of reviewing the national minimum wage and the minimum wage for industrial security guards.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Haiti’s President Michel Martelly yesterday called for a peaceful solution to the crisis facing Dominicans of Haitian descent who are being deported from the Dominican Republic because the Spanish-speaking country insists they do not have proper documentation to remain there.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday urged Caribbean states to lead the world in ending violence against women and girls.
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UN Secretary General joins #ENDviolence campaign
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PEOPLE in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court could not help but laugh when a man who had assaulted the mother of his child, after she sent the child to him for $300, broke down in tears.
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Man weeps after assaulting child’s mother
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LOCAL Government Minister Noel Arscott says his ministry is pressing ahead with plans to remove people from dangerous areas, such as river banks, with preliminary reports from parish councils on at risk communities expected by the end of next month.
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WHILE men can take steps to decrease their risk of developing coronary heart disease, Dr Claudine Lewis, cardiologist at the Cornwall Regional Hospital, does not think they are visiting their doctors early enough for routine check-ups.
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OPPOSITION Leader Andrew Holness’s defence of the house that he and his wife Juliet are building in Beverly Hills, St Andrew has created more unease inside the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and appears to have placed the political organisation on a collision course with some of its more affluent donors.
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CRYSTAL Allen, a 22-year-old unemployed single mother living with three children in Old Harbour, St Catherine, is one of the three persons who have received houses from Food For The Poor (FFP) Jamaica as part of their objective of building at least three houses ahead of their 5K race held on May 9.
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A house for homeless mother of three
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MOST seven-year-olds need a bandage for a skinned knee, but what Shinnia Porteous, who was born with a hole in her heart, needs more than anything in this world right now, is a new pacemaker to keep her alive.
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IF it was only for the meagre salary that he receives fortnightly, Joseph Bolt would have given up a long time ago.
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Love for children inspires Joseph Bolt
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PARLIAMENT is heavily burdened and constrained by its lack of resources. However, despite the limitations it has been able to host two very important international conferences this month.
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Parliament reactivates oversight committee for its commissions
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PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — The Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) is the latest to slap the Dominican Republic (DR) over its policy of deporting Haitians born in the neighbouring Spanish-speaking Caribbean island.
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Turks and Caicos hits Dom Rep over Haitians
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MAJOR Garth Anderson testified in the Tivoli Enquiry yesterday that a beating of two men by soldiers could have occurred but that he didn’t see it and it wasn’t reported to him while he was in Tivoli Gardens in 2010.
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Soldiers may have beaten civilians — JDF major
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J’cans in New York provide further help for blind man who lived in chicken coop
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JERICHO, St Catherine — More assistance has come for 82-year-old Rosalvo Patterson, the blind man whose fortune changed earlier this year after the Jamaica Observer highlighted the squalid conditions in which he existed in a fowl coop.
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