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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP):An Oklahoma statute barring the termination of a pregnancy based on the gender of the fetus was deemed unconstitutional recently by a judge who said the law violated the state's rule that legislation address a single subject."When you...

It was still fuzzy how former Commissioner of Corrections-turned-Permanent-Secretary Richard Reese has figured as a victim in the suspense drama called 'Armadale'.

ARMING THE police force is not cheap.

Government Senator Hyacinth Bennett has called for the amalgamation of the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the Office of the Children's Advocate to see to the welfare of children.Bennett submitted the proposal in a motion in the Senate...

The Global Institute for Freedom, Transformation and Enlightenment (GIFTE) is inviting men to connect with their masculinity in a two-day seminar titled 'Man, Love, Money and Power', starting today.The seminar begins at the Mona Visitors' Lodge and...

Representatives of the Interna-tional Human Rights Law Clinic in Washington, DC, will be arriving in the island next week to take on the case of Jeremy Smith, who was killed by the police in 2002 under questionable...

THE WEST Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) will bring its decades-old involvement in bauxite production in Jamaica to an end when it makes its 762 permanent employees redundant on March 31.The redundancy exercise, expected...

AN ALLIANCE of health professionals is joining the island's nurses in harshly criticising the Government over the sector's yet-to-be implemented job evaluation and reclassification exercise....

THE POLICE High Command says it has not taken a final decision on transferring 75 personnel out of two stations in St Catherine. Communications director for the Jamaica Constabulary Force, Karl Angell, told The Gleaner yesterday that staffing...

A superintendent of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) confirmed last night that his United States (US) visa had been cancelled.The superintendent, who wished not to be named, told The Gleaner that he was written to in February about the new status...

THE CONTROVERSY surrounding the American Airlines (AA) deal deepened yesterday with Contractor General Greg Christie flatly rejecting the defence offered by Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett....

Contractor General Greg Christie has rapped the Ministry of Health and regional health authorities for breaching the Government's contract award principles by reportedly awarding contracts unlawfully....