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$7.3m being sought to clean up St William Grant Park

TWO years after the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) spent $ 121 million on its refurbishment, the St William Grant Park in downtown Kingston is again said to be in need of urgent maintenance.



Jamaica Observer

Balgobin seeks clarity on homosexuality

Independent Senator Rolph Balgobin wants clarity from Government on questions of homosexuality, bisexuality, and marriage as it relates to homosexuality….


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Probe into treatment of trainees

TRAINEES ARE COMPLAINING that they are being exploited so companies offering apprenticeships to the youth will soon come under the scrutiny of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) Youth Arm.




NationNews – Barbados

I wanted to protect my baby

EVEN AS her flesh was being ripped out by three ferocious dogs during a mauling on Tuesday, shortly after she had dropped off her two young children to school, all that five-month pregnant mother of three Kurleen Cooper could think of was protecting her unborn baby. …


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Write on!

PRIME MINISTER FREUNDEL STUART yesterday called for Caribbean writers to be given greater recognition, while admitting he felt more at home among them than in the midst of other politicians.




NationNews – Barbados

Quebec street stars enthrall Tapatios

The Lol Brothers, one of acts taking part in the May Cultural Festival, entertained an enthusiastic crowd at the Revolucion Tren Ligero station this week.




Guadalajara Reporter – News from Guadalajara, Lake Chapala, Puerto Vallarta and Western Mexico

Nov 26 trial for accused in ATL pension fraud

THE three former Appliance Traders Limited (ATL) executives who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the group’s Pension Fund and Gorstew Ltd are to be tried on November 26.



Jamaica Observer

Samantha Carlos: Innocent, Free and Victim of the System

Robbers escaped with over two hundred thousand dollars in a heist at Heritage Bank in Orange Walk on April fifth, 2011. Two of three men, entered the bank and asked to speak to the loan officer, while the other waited outside. They were escorted to the office of Bank Manager, Samantha Carlos, who was held [...]…


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Cheryl back to work

FIFTY-EIGHT days after she was forcibly removed from her cubicle at the Ministry of Gender, Youth and Child Development and sent to the St Ann’s Psychiatric Hospital where she was kept for 15 days, acting assistant accountant Cheryl Miller made a quiet return to work yesterday….


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Three injured as car, taxi crash on bridge

page11b002PHILIPSBURG–A black Hyundai Elantra collided with a Ford Eco Line F350 taxi in the vicinity of Prins Bernhard Bridge on Friday, May 18, around 2:20am….


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