Jamaica

  • August 14, 2013
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    JAMAICA-COURT-Government to amend Evidence Act to allow for computer generated evidence

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government is moving to amend the Evidence Act to facilitate easy admission of computer generated evidence in cases, Justice Minister Mark Golding has said. “Our provisions in the Evidence Act are antiquated and require quite a convoluted series of steps in terms of proof of the working of the machine, before any computer-generated evidence…

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  • August 14, 2013
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    Jamaica and Caricom

    GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Stabroek News – It is little over fifty years since a sustained campaign, led by the then opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) under Alexander Bustamante, resulted in a referendum decision approving the country’s withdrawal from the West Indies Federation, and supporting national independence for Jamaica. The JLP, the party currently in opposition, now appears to have started a…

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  • August 13, 2013
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    CSEC English Passes Up 11 Per Cent

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – The Ministry of Education is reporting an increase in the number of students attaining grades 1-3 in the Caribbean Examination Councils 2013 CSEC exams. Of the 26,529 students sitting this year's English A paper 16,871 attained a passing grade. This represents an 11 per cent increase over last year, which saw 52 per cent of the…

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  • August 12, 2013
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    Crown Him Again – Bolt Reclaims World Champs Title Despite Sore Legs

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner – Freshly minted 100m World champion Usain Bolt is delighted to have regained the title he lost two years ago, but admitted disappointment at not testing his own 9.58-second world record in the 100m final at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics inside the Luzhniki Stadium yesterday. “Overall, it was good. I can't complain; it was a…

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  • August 9, 2013
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    Digicel to abolish US, Caricom roaming charges

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer -Digicel will eliminate roaming charges for clients travelling within the US and Caricom, effective October 1, 2013. Phillip Paulwell, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) president, announced the agreement with the mobile telecoms giant throughout the region on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the joint CTU, International Telecommunications Caribbean Ministerial Forum on ICT in Port of Spain, Trinidad.…

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  • August 9, 2013
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    Organised communities can stop farm thieves

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as praedial larceny. Farmers have to deal with droughts, floods, extreme price fluctuations, and the high cost of inputs. But talk to any producer of food crops and…

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  • August 9, 2013
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    JAMAICA-POLITICS-Opposition wins by-election

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won Thursday’s by-election in the Cassia Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) – the municipal body which runs the affairs of the capital city. The JLP's Beverly Prince defeated and Sheryn Bromfield of the People's National Party's (PNP). With just over ten thousand registered voters…

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  • August 9, 2013
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    JAMAICA-CRIME-Missionaries robbed

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The police in the central parish of Manchester have launched an investigation into the early morning robbery of twenty-six missionaries. The missionaries from God’s Missionary Church in Pennsylvania, in the United States were invited to Jamaica by the Jamaica Holiness Church to work in their vacation Bible School programme. According to the group’s Youth Pastor, Anthony…

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  • August 9, 2013
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    Henry: Only Parliament can make reparations decision

    KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer – OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Mike Henry, says he has tabled his resolution on reparations again in Parliament, in an effort to force a political decision on the matter in the House. “What we need is a political decision, that will enable us to take the matter to the International Court of Justice to value the economic…

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  • August 8, 2013
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    Jamaica 16-year-old held over 10 murders

    (Jamaica Gleaner) A sixteen-year-old boy, who was on the Kingston Central most wanted list, has been captured. The teen, whose name cannot be released, was wanted for more than 10 murders, several cases of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm, was captured on Text Lane in Kingston about 12:30 p.m., today. The police say they were on…

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