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File photo shows the gay Pride flag being flown with the US flag at the US embassy in Kingston. Two Christian advocacy groups here have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a globa

TWO CHRISTIAN advocacy groups have welcomed the move by the United States to ban the flying of the Pride flag at its embassies, with one dubbing it a global win for democracy. Reacting to the development, President of the Love March Movement, Dr...
ISSA president Keith Wellington

A 17-YEAR-OLD student of Jamaica College (JC) was left hospitalised after criminals robbed him of his cell phone and stabbed him outside the gates of the National Stadium in Kingston on Friday, where the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls’ Athletics...
Bunting

Deputy Senate President Charles Sinclair yesterday clashed with Peter Bunting, the leader of opposition business, over the latter’s insistence that he would finish Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s Budget presentation, which was cut short on March...

Despite spending some $371.8 million of taxpayers’ money to lease two properties over a three-year period, Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) failed to occupy the buildings up to August 31 last year. The report was tabled in Parliament yesterday...

FINANCE MINISTER Dr Nigel Clarke closed the Budget Debate yesterday, firing several salvos at Opposition Leader Mark Golding, calling his criticism of the Government’s tax-free financial blueprint for the coming financial year “deceptive”. Golding...

The Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it will be closely monitoring the Rio Cobre Water Treatment Plant project in Content, St Catherine, to ensure that customers get the best rates possible. Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier this...

AUDITOR GENERAL (AuG) Pamela Monroe Ellis has confirmed that the Financial Services Commission (FSC) incurred a $163-million loss when Jamaica hosted the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) conference in 2017. Additionally...

CELEBRATION CONTINUES into the 75th anniversary of women in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), as 30 trailblazing women across Area One were feted by charitable organisation Sarah’s Children and S Hotel. The women, whose ranks ranged from...

A MAJOR development is unfolding in the saga of the non-tabling of reports from the auditor general, with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, yesterday charging that the alleged actions of the Clerk to the Houses of Parliament...

CONTROVERSIAL MEMBER of Parliament (MP) Everald Warmington has declared that he withdrew his resignation as a member of the party’s leadership to block the People’s National Party (PNP) from regaining state power in...
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