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POLITICS: In Caribbean, Dreadful Wait After U.S. Terror Attacks
Caribbean leaders and citizens have been transfixed by the unfolding horror in the United States. Many are convinced that countless lives in the region's small islands will be changed irrevocably by Tuesday's terror attacks, especially in New York City.ECONOMY-JAMAICA: Privatised Electricity Woes Unabated
Rolling power cuts have returned to Jamaica no sooner than its partly privatised electricity retailer announced customers would no longer face 'load shedding'.EDUCATION-JAMAICA: Schools Pay Price of Foreign Recruitment
When schools reopen next week, more than 300 teachers -some of them, the country's most experienced - will be absent, having taken new jobs in London and New York.HEALTH-JAMAICA: Women Risk All in Unsafe Abortions
Faced with possible life imprisonment for terminating their pregnancies, Jamaican women resort to dangerous - and sometimes deadly - methods of abortion.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Violence Persists Despite Peace Talks
Fifteen more people have been killed in violent incidents, some of them politically linked, despite an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties to work for peace.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Leaders, Communities Grope for Peace
Tensions are high as governing and opposition party officials prepare for peace talks amid renewed gang and political violence in this capital city. At least 71 people have been killed since May.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Leaders at Odds over Violence Probe
The leaders of Jamaica's two main political parties are at odds over the choice of commissioners to probe last month's civil violence in which 25 people were killed.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Leaders at Odds over Violence Probe
The leaders of Jamaica's two main political parties are at odds over the choice of commissioners to probe last month's civil violence in which 25 people were killed.ENVIRONMENT: Jamaicans Confront Hazardous Waste
For more than ten years, residents of the Succaba Pen squatter community in this south coast fishing village have lived on land contaminated with asbestos, a potent health hazard.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Taking a Stand Against Homophobic Violence
Jamaican homosexuals battered by violence and discriminatory laws hope to benefit from public defender Howard Hamilton's willingness to stand up for anyone whose constitutional rights have been violated.POLITICS: Caribbean, Britain Explore New Ties
Caribbean leaders are lobbying Britain on a broad range of issues following Prime Minister Tony Blair's pledge to revitalise the "special relationship" between the region and the former colonial power.ECONOMY: Jamaicans Symbolise Debate on New Trade Initiatives
John Maxwell warns against the perils of free trade. Jimmy Moss-Solomon extols its promise of bounty. The Jamaican antagonists mirror fateful debates at the global level and within the Western Hemisphere.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Inquiry into Killings Postponed
Prime Minister PJ Patterson failed Friday to meet his own deadline to name a three-person commission of inquiry into recent civil violence in the western part of this capital city.ECONOMY-JAMAICA: Tourism Struggles with Legacy of Violence
Officials are going all out to repair damage to the country's reputation as a tourist destination after this month's political violence.POLITICS: Gun Battle Over, Jamaica Grapples with Profound Questions
The guns have been silenced but the questions are deafening.POLITICS: Jamaicans Ponder Economic Cost of Gun Battles
Jamaica's nascent economic recovery is in peril, officials and business executives say. Their warning comes as this city collects its dead and clears debris from the recent outbreak of gang and political warfare.ECONOMY-CARIBBEAN: Jamaica Bids to Revive Citrus Industry
Seven years after the citrus tristeza virus (CTV) began decimating the Jamaican citrus industry, the government is launching an effort to replace diseased trees.HEALTH-CARIBBEAN: Officials Fight on Two Fronts to Lower AIDS Treatment Costs
Jobless and infected with the virus that causes AIDS, Devon is one of thousands of Jamaicans who cannot afford drugs to lengthen or improve the quality of his life.DEVELOPMENT-JAMAICA: Women Bear Unequal Burdens of Poverty *
Mable Thompson and her nine children are homeless. For the past year she has been looking for a house she can afford from the earnings from the tiny grocery shop and the small vegetable plot she operates.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Police Killings in the Spotlight
Almost three months after police killed seven men, Jamaica's Minister of National Security and Justice Keith Knight is urging a "speedy ruling" from the Director of Public Prosecutions following the completion of investigations into the incident.POLITICS-JAMAICA: Police Reform Put to the Test
Two days after the launch of the government's new crime fighting measure, gang violence shattered the calm of western Kingston. Two people died in the ensuing battle.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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