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Under pressure from parents bawling about the high cost of auxiliary fees, and with the education ministry adamant that no child should be turned away for failing to pay these charges, several schools are strugg-ling to finance the most basic services.

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There is growing speculation surrounding Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke in the United States after news surfaced last week that prosecutors have filed a new sealed document with the courts.

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Several political dignitaries both from the governing side and the Opposition joined family members, including wife, Norma Clarke, to bid final farewell to the late former government minister Horace Antonio Clarke.

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SECTIONS OF Maxfield Avenue in south St Andrew are now tense following threats reportedly issued by thugs linked to the infamous Stinger gang. The man reported to have headed the gang, Ricardo Wynter, better known as ‘Government’ or ‘Gov’, was fatally shot by the police in Hellshire, St Catherine, last week…

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Jolted by what he has perceived as the swift reaction of criminal elements to the end of the limited state of emergency, National Security Minister Dwight Nelson will be huddling with senior security officers early this week.

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IT is widely agreed, certainly by CARICOM, that workforce productivity will be the dominant driver of economic growth in the region. Several countries are currently putting together plans that will have an impact on human resource development, and workforce training and development in particular.

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Empowerment of communities through education and training has emerged as the dominant feature of four projects shortlisted for the 11th annual Michael Manley Award for community self-reliance and the seventh annual Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) award, which will be presented at the Little Theatre on August 2.

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A PROMINENT local attorney is urging a review of the law that allows boys under 16 years old to be charged with carnal abuse even when they have consensual sex with a girl who is also younger than 16.

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TWENTY-seven-year-old Kevin ‘AC’ Watt of East Kirkland Heights, St Andrew was killed and three other persons were shot and injured by gunmen on the Red Hills Drive main road, Kingston 10, this morning.

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THIRTY-five-year-old Richard Oneil of Eric Avenue, Kingston 20, died after he was stabbed during a dispute with a female exotic dancer on Ripon Road, Kingston 5, yesterday.

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