Archive for December, 2008

“You are one in a million!” Such was the adoration bestowed on Dhaima Brookes by Valerie Juggan-Brown, group managing director of Guardsman Limited, when Brookes stepped into the security firm’s offices in St Andrew yesterday….

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Residents of Goffe Way in Denham Town, west Kingston, are angry with the police over what they say was a failure to protect a two-year-old girl they claim was left by her mother to die. Nineteen-year-old Nicolette Ledford was yesterday detained under the Child Care …

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One police group has welcomed a call from the National Transformation Programme (NTP) for a national ceasefire during which there would be no murders for the month of January. The Police Officers Association (POA), which represents the officer corps…

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Residents of Denham Town and surrounding communities are describing as a major miracle the revelation that an abandoned two-year-old child survived for four days without food and water. Medical authorities say it is not unusual for an abandoned child to survive for this period…

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Minister of Labour and Social Security Pearnel Charles says he will be looking into the circumstances that led to the repatriation of 18 Jamaican workers employed to a mushroom farm in Ontario, Canada, under the Temporary Foreign Workers Programme…

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Fate sought to tempt legal secretary Dhaima Brookes when she stumbled upon $1 million in an ATM in the Portmore Mall, St Catherine, yesterday. Undeterred by any possible temptation to walk away with the find, Brookes displayed an act of goodwill, which angered many…

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ALTHOUGH THE Christmas season was a busy time for dancehall star David Alexander Smith, also known as Ice, he could not pass on a festive tradition – Christmas Day dinner with family.”When him finish eat him sey, ‘Thank yuh mi sister…

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Former mayor of Kingston Marie Atkins died yesterday afternoon.She died at her home in Cherry Gardens, St Andrew. was 88 years old. Atkins, who represented the Waterhouse division as a councillor for the People’s National Party …

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