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Police charge alleged lottery scam mastermind
Kenrick Stephenson, the alleged mastermind behind the multi-million dollar lottery scam who was taken into custody by the police yesterday, has now been slapped with several charges.

Kellier says retooling, reskilling workforce should become priorities for Jamaica
Labour minister Derrick Kellier says Jamaica must commit to re-tooling and re-skilling its workers in order to compete on an equal footing with other countries in an increasingly borderless world.

St Catherine farmer charged for teen's murder
A 52-year-old St Catherine farmer was this morning arrested and charged with murder arising from the death of a teenager earlier this month.

Alberto not a threat to Jamaica
The National Meteorological Service says the first tropical storm of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane season does not pose a threat to Jamaica.

T&T chief justice critically injured, four others killed in highway crash
Trinidad & Tobago’s acting Chief Justice Wendell Kangaloo was critically injured in a motor vehicle crash this morning that killed four persons.

Strong quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy
A strong earthquake shook northeast Italy early Sunday, killing four people, tearing off chunks of church facades and sending panicked residents into the streets. Aftershocks wreaked more havoc in th

T&T integrity commission probes CAL board member on questionable contract
Trinidad and Tobago's Integrity Commission has been called in to investigate the alleged awarding of a TT$4 million contract to a former Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) board member.

Missing J'cans on Bahamas boat may have been killed
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now says it appears that something went wrong on the boat that was transporting 10 Jamaicans from The Bahamas to the United States nearly two months ago.

Telephone tax to go directly to Universal Access Fund
The government has announced that the tax collected from incoming telephone calls will be deposited directly into the Universal Access Fund (UAF) to help enable more Jamaicans to access Information Co

G8 wants Greece to remain in eurozone
The leaders of the G8 group of the world's most powerful economies say they want debt-stricken Greece to remain in the eurozone.

Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies at 60
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli Sunday, nearly three years after he was released fro



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