Education Minister Andrew Holness Friday made an impassioned plea to the island's public sector teachers to accept the Government's current wage offer and apologised for recent comments made by Finance Minister Audley Shaw which stopped just short of calling the teachers' demand unreasonable.
Last week, Shaw reportedly intimated that the teachers' demand for retroactive monies was unreasonable, given the...
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Residents of Bonito Crescent are breathing a little easier, while expressing appreciation to the Mandeville police for what one resident called "their brave action" in removing three gunmen from their community on Wednesday morning.
According to the residents, the trio had been terrorising the community for the last three months.
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Last week, a student of a Knockpatrick school was overcome with gratitude. Her MP, Peter Bunting, came to her school, Bethabara Primary & Junior High, to present her with a new, state-of-the-art motorized wheelchair.
She is Shanelle Colquhoun of Grade 9. Now she'll be able to move around more freely, and be more involved in activities at school and in her community. The wheelchair has empowered...
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TWENTY-six year-old bartender Christine Scott of Greenvale District, Manchester, has been missing from home since December 24, 2009.
She is of dark complexion, medium build and about 162 centimetres (5 feet 4 inches) tall.
Police reports are that at about 3:30 pm, Scott was seen at a supermarket in Mandeville and has not been seen or heard from since. When last seen she was dressed in black jeans...
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Manchester’s most wanted man, 33-year-old Kevin Brown otherwise called “Chi-Chaani”, who was held by the Clarke’s Town Police in Trelawny last week, has been charged with two counts of illegal possession of firearm and ammunition and is to appear in the Falmouth Resident Magistrate’s Court later this week.
On Saturday, Brown was held in possession of two illegal firearms – a Glock 19 9mm...
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