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ONLY HOURS after the curtains descended with a flurry on a birthday bash for embattled Tivoli Gardens community leader, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, neighbouring sections of west Kingston exploded into a raging gun battle...

MINISTER OF National Security Dwight Nelson said late yesterday that the Public Service Commission (PSC) had reached a decision on the fate of beleaguered Commissioner of Corrections June Spence-Jarrett, following a meeting yesterday....

KINGSTON (JIS): THE MAJESTY Gardens Basic School in southwest St Andrew has received well-needed assistance from the Steve Harvey Foundation, which presented the institution with a cheque for just over $1 million last Friday....

A mother is in a race against time to save the life of her ailing five-year-old who has been diagnosed with a string of medical complications.Lorna Smith told The Gleaner that since last year she has been pulling out all...

FALMOUTH, Trelawny: New Trelawny Custos Paul Muschett will be officially installed on Thursday.The ceremony will be held in Falmouth's Water Square, starting at 2 p.m., with the pomp and pageantry supplied by the Jamaica...

Despite concerns that registered nurses might take industrial action in response to perceived foot-dragging of the Government on salary payments and a reclassification exercise, Nurses' Association of Jamaica...

It was Rita Hilton's desire to provide grants for tertiary-level students, but she could only afford one at a time.When Hilton, of St Leonards in Westmoreland, told her friends about the concept...

A decade into the 21st century and Jamaica still remains the land of wood and no piped water for more than 800,000 Jamaicans who are still not being served by the National Water Commission (NWC), the parish councils or private providers.

A BARBADOS minister of government has moved to shut out toxic Jamaican dancehall music from his country.

While you may not take a drinking glass to the untreated water sources, if the fluid, chilled with ice, is presented to you on a hot sunny day, you would not detect contamination with the naked eye. The water looks clean. But looks are sometimes deceiving.

The following is an excerpt from the recently published book Killing Streets and Community Revival, authored by Horace Levy, University of the West Indies research fellow and member of the mediation group Peace Management Initiative. See Part 2 in tomorrow's Gleaner.

The government has given the clearest indication yet that the fire at the Armadale Juvenile Correction Centre was behind the planned transfer of permanent secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Major Richard Reese.Since...