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Published:Saturday | April 4, 2015 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson

Almost four months after it launched a probe to determine how much property it actually owns, the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) is still unable to produce a correct list."The investigation is extremely lengthy. We have to go back through...

Published:Wednesday | March 18, 2015 | 12:24 PMCorey Robinson

Problems continue to surround China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) over its mining operation in Treadways, St Catherine.The authorities recently issued a second stop order on the company's quarry operations as investigations continue into the...

Published:Monday | March 9, 2015 | 7:33 PMCorey Robinson

Members of the Mt Carmel Ebenezer Courts of Praise Ministry were left chanting the blood of Jesus against hoodlums who yesterday smashed open the tomb of one of their church sisters in an attempt to steal its valuables at the May Pen Cemetery.May...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 10:05 AMCorey Robinson

A 'sick building' on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies has left scores of students and staff members with medical issues and the administration facing a multimillion dollar bill to correct the problems.Several areas inside the...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 6:01 PMCorey Robinson

News that 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson, the Donald Quarrie High School student who was hacked to death on Tuesday morning, was pregnant came as no surprise to residents of the Newlands Housing Scheme in St Thomas, yesterday.An autopsy conducted on...

Published:Friday | March 6, 2015 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson, Gleaner Writer

Investigators probing the murder of 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson say the teen was at least four months pregnant when she was killed.  The Donald Quarrie High Student was hacked to death on Tuesday morning. A senior investigator very close to...

Published:Wednesday | March 4, 2015 | 5:52 PMCorey Robinson

The Newlands Housing Scheme in St Thomas was yesterday still in mourning, a day after the murder of 14-year-old Kayalicia Simpson, the Donald Quarrie High School student who was hacked to death during a predawn attack metres from her home."It is...

Published:Tuesday | March 3, 2015 | 4:26 PMCorey Robinson

News that the authorities have issued a stop order on the mining of aggregate by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) at a quarry in Treadways, St Catherine, is being welcomed by residents of surrounding communities who say they are the main...

Published:Friday | February 27, 2015 | 7:41 AMCorey Robinson

China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been ordered to stop its quarrying at a hillside in Treadways, St Catherine. The order was issued last week by the Mines and Geology Division of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy...

Published:Friday | February 13, 2015 | 10:52 AMCorey Robinson

Scores of students at State-operated primary and all-age schools across the island are being put at risk daily because of the failure of the Ministry of Education to ensure that health personnel and equipment are in place to administer even basic first aid.

Published:Friday | February 6, 2015 | 10:54 AMCorey Robinson

Andrew Gentles is the head boy at the Salvation Army School for the Blind and, while he has never travelled overseas, he speaks Oxford's English with a British accent he says he adopted through the many audio books he listens to out of the United Kingdom.

Published:Wednesday | January 21, 2015 | 11:36 AMCorey Robinson

They live in a world where their silence is deemed silly and attempts to communicate are made more difficult as the 'hearing people' don'

Published:Tuesday | January 20, 2015 | 4:45 PMCorey Robinson

Water lock-off

Authorities crackdown on major water-selling operation

Published:Thursday | January 15, 2015 | 10:02 AMCorey Robinson

Residents of Port Royal are burning hot over the failure of the fire service to place a unit at the recently refurbished fire station in

Published:Friday | January 9, 2015 | 12:25 PMCorey Robinson

Blind but brilliant!

Spanish teacher excels at Clan Carthy despite visual impairment

Published:Friday | January 9, 2015 | 12:34 PMCorey Robinson

After almost 20 years of handling communication in the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Superintendent Steve Brown is moving into operational

Published:Thursday | December 18, 2014 | 7:36 AMCorey Robinson

It has been more than 34 years, but Superintendent Oberlene Smith-Whyte still reaches for a hand towel to wipe her tears when speaking ab

Published:Thursday | December 11, 2014 | 10:53 AMCorey Robinson

A lengthy wait for approval from external agencies and technology issues continue to hamper efforts by the Kingston and St Andrew Corpora

Published:Friday | December 5, 2014 | 11:26 AMCorey Robinson

The families of two men killed by police within the past two years have greeted with scepticism news that the cops are one step closer to

Published:Thursday | November 27, 2014 | 6:41 PMCorey Robinson

AT LEAST two employees from local motor vehicle depots have been taken into custody by the Major Organised Crime and Anti-corruption Agen

Published:Monday | November 17, 2014 | 4:16 PMCorey Robinson

Police in the Kingston Central division say they are clamping down on a band of robbers who have been plaguing students walking along Nor

Published:Wednesday | November 5, 2014 | 1:50 PMCorey Robinson

Twenty-eight years wasted, a

Published:Wednesday | November 5, 2014 | 3:03 PMCorey Robinson

They are listed among the cohorts with the fastest growing HIV infection rate in the Caribbean, but impoverished 13-19 year olds at two o

Published:Wednesday | October 29, 2014 | 10:29 AMCorey Robinson

Hard land, hard life

Small farmers in Portland risking life and limb as they struggle to survive

Published:Thursday | October 23, 2014 | 6:36 PMCorey Robinson

Residents of St John's Road in Rockfort, east Kingston, remained shell-shocked yesterday, as dawn broke over the ill-fated bar where thre

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