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Jamaica Launches Emergency Jobs Initiative

By BCNN6 on January 30, 2012 5:31 AM | No TrackBacks

Jamaica's month-old government on Wednesday launched the first phase of an emergency jobs program that was the centerpiece of its winning election campaign.

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Unusual Step as City Managers Sign Union Agreement

By BCNN6 on January 23, 2012 4:29 PM | No TrackBacks

The City of Hamilton today announced it has signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement for its management group. Making the announcement was Hamilton Mayor Charles Gosling.

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'Failing Schools' Must Address Community Needs to Improve, Experts Say

By BCNN6 on January 23, 2012 4:23 PM | No TrackBacks

A distinguished professor of education from the United States and a former teacher at a transformed local high school both agree that working with community stakeholders such as churches, businesses and youth groups to develop programmes to respond to the people's needs is critical to changing the output of underperforming schools.

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'We Are United' - Holness says JLP a Motivated Team Despite Loss

By BCNN6 on January 16, 2012 9:22 AM | No TrackBacks

JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) officers yesterday emerged from its first meeting of candidates who contested the December 29 general election and other functionaries, with the message that the party remains united without any of the anticipated blame, despite the crushing loss to the People's National Party at the polls.

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Obama Congratulates Portia

By BCNN6 on January 9, 2012 3:50 PM | No TrackBacks

UNITED States President Barack Obama has phoned Jamaica's new prime minister to congratulate her on leading her party back to power.

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Off With a Bang! Hundreds Flock Waterfront to Greet 2012

By BCNN6 on January 2, 2012 4:15 PM | No TrackBacks

2012, Jamaica 50th celebrations open with colour, excitement

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Jamaica's First Female Leader, Portia Simpson Miller, Wins Elections in a Landslide

By BCNN6 on January 2, 2012 2:49 PM | No TrackBacks

On Jamaica's rutted streets, the complaints have been chronic -- home ownership is out of reach for most wage earners, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed, water service regularly fizzles out and decent jobs are scarce.

Fed up with chronic hard times, voters in this debt-wracked Caribbean nation on Thursday threw out the ruling party and delivered a landslide triumph to the opposition People's National Party, or PNP, whose campaign energetically tapped voter disillusionment especially among the numerous struggling poor.

Jamaica's former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller shows her inked finger after casting her ballot in parliamentary elections in Kingston, Jamaica, Thursday Dec. 29, 2011.

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Six Killed Over Holy Weekend

By BCNN6 on December 26, 2011 3:55 AM | No TrackBacks

Christmas celebrations for six families were yesterday cut short as six men were murdered in Caroni, El Socorro, Laventille, St Joseph and Valencia in separate shootings over the weekend.

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Doubters Diminish

By BCNN6 on December 19, 2011 10:02 AM | No TrackBacks

Prime Minister Andrew Holness continues to improve the stock of the Government with fewer and fewer Jamaicans now saying that the country is headed in the wrong direction.

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Parliament Could Have Done More In Four Years

By BCNN6 on December 12, 2011 9:13 PM | No TrackBacks

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 marked the day that Bruce Golding led members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) down Duke Street to Gordon House to be sworn in as members of parliament (MPs) and to begin the process of taking charge of the affairs of the country.

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150 Candidates For Election Day

By BCNN6 on December 12, 2011 9:11 PM | No TrackBacks

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (ECJ) is reporting that 150 candidates were nominated today to contest the December 29 polls.

JLP leader Andrew Holness and PNP president Portia Simpson Miller led their parties today in nomination day activities. One hundred and fifty candidates from mainstream parties and third parties were nominated- photo illustration

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'Dudus' Sentencing Now Jan 17

By BCNN6 on December 5, 2011 1:17 PM | No TrackBacks

The sentencing of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, the former Tivoli Gardens strongman, has been postponed until January 17, officials close to the case told the Observer.

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Jamaicans to Go to Polls December 29

By BCNN6 on December 5, 2011 1:08 PM | No TrackBacks

Jamaicans are to go to the polls on Thursday December 29, 2011. Nomination Day is Monday December 12, 2011.

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What We All Ought to be Thankful For

By BCNN6 on November 23, 2011 3:28 PM | No TrackBacks

Thanks is a word we teach our children at a very early age. We teach "giving thanks" to our children, but do we apply it to our lives? Here are some things we can be thankful for this year.

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Holness Can Be Beaten, says Dr Warren Blake

By BCNN6 on November 21, 2011 7:31 AM | No TrackBacks

ANDREW Holness's first opponent in a general election is insisting that Jamaica's youngest prime minister can be beaten in his West Central St Andrew seat if the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) plays its cards right.

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