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Prime Minster Andrew Holness addressing the Inter-American Development Bank Government Digital Transformation in Jamaica, held at the AC Marriott Hotel in St Andrew yesterday.

Reacting to rumours and growing suspicion among segments of the society, Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday said it was “stupidness” that some Jamaicans and others have recently been criticising the Government over its establishment of new...
Zavia Mayne

Nigel Jones, the attorney-at-law for government minister Zavia Mayne, has said that millions of dollars paid to his client by the Factories Corporation of Jamaica (FCJ) as part of a land acquisition deal in 2011 “would have been justifiable in the...
Violet Pinnock-Reynolds and her grandson Denton Bedward.

VIOLET PINNOCK-Reynolds has been a mother figure and guiding light not only to her own children, but to many individuals within her community of Arthurs Seat, Clarendon. The elder, who celebrates her 100th birthday today, was born in 1923 and has...

FORMER JAMAICA Civil Service Association (JCSA) boss, O’Neil Grant, says his most significant achievement as president was the union’s work with the Government to retain hundreds of public sector jobs. This, they did, by forgoing wage increases in...

The plea and case management in relation to the 2010 shooting death of businessman Keith Clarke is to continue on June 5. The case was scheduled to resume yesterday in the Home Circuit Court but was postponed due to the unavailability of the...

JAMAICA’S CHIEF Justice, Bryan Sykes, has pitched container courts coupled with technology as a means of reducing time and resources spent on mention date court appearances. He reasoned that in efficiently run courts, mention dates are not more...

WESTERN BUREAU: ORAIN RUDDOCK, a substance abuse officer with the National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) in Westmoreland, says his organisation has launched an intervention programme in the parish to snuff out widespread vaping among students. “The...

IT HAS been nearly four years since a fire razed the dormitory building of the Jamaica National Children’s Home (JNCH), in August 2019. Administrators are still faced with the challenge of not being able to house the full number of children who...

The popular Chinese supermarket owner who was killed during a robbery at his business place in Porus, Manchester, last December, lost his life after his killers abandoned their original plan to rob a Brinks truck and instead targeted his...

USAIN BOLT’S company that’s allegedly been fleeced of almost $2 billion in an alleged fraud at Stocks...
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