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The downtown Kingston-based Tower Street prison is no stranger to major security breaches.

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Commissioner of corrections renews call for new prisons after major security breachJamaica’s prison boss, Lieutenant Colonel Sean Prendergast, has reiterated the need for new and better-designed prisons in more isolated areas.The head of the Department…

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GraceKennedy Limited quietly slipped into the lives of thousands of Jamaicans 90 years ago and by all accounts, its founders demonstrated a unique brand of tenacity to etch the company as a huge household name in Jamaica.

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Senior national security operatives are probing a major security breach at one of Jamaica’s maximum-security prisons that resulted in hardened criminals hosting a marijuana-laced and liquor-filled Christmas party on its compound.

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The worrying issue of suspected ballot tampering in East Central St James has forced the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) to take decisive action.

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As support mounts for Derrick Smith to be the next chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), he has sought to allay misgivings about his health.

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Another traumatic episode in the life of the grief-stricken family of Anthony Taylor, the 13-year-old boy who died mysteriously two years ago, unfolded last week.

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An ambitious forecast by Phillip Paulwell, minister of science, technology, energy and mining who calculated that the energy cost to consumers could dip significantly in four years, has failed to generate support of senior technocrats who sat in a Gleaner Editors’ Forum last week.

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A major security breach at the Tower Street maximum-security prison in December last year represents a “deep network of corruption” within the prison system, a Sunday Gleaner source reports.

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For years, the Jamaican Government has collected money from its citizens for land without having titles to give them in return.After waiting years, some…

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