A medical technologist employed to a hospital in Montego Bay, St James, is said to be living in fear after being repeatedly threatened by another woman who has accused her of being in a relationship with her spouse.

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WOMEN will now have to pay General Consumption Tax (GCT) on sanitary napkins and tampons starting New Year's morning. And smokers, like they did in September, will have to pay more for every puff of cigarette ...

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On January 1, 2010, citizens will have to dig deeper into their pockets when the General Consumption Tax (GCT) increases from 16.5 per cent to 17.5. THE WEEKEND STAR approached a number of persons...

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A motorist who offered a policeman $1,000 to drop a traffic charge was recently sentenced in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court to 100 hours of community service. He is Gary Morrison, a labourer from Old Harbour...

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Three unidentified men were killed and two hospitalised following a motor vehicle accident along the Spanish Town leg of the Toll Road in St Catherine yesterday....

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Residents braced for the worst, as the flames of a small fire threatened a row of gas cylinders on the Jon Lex Mor plaza in Independence City, Portmore. While shopkeepers ran for their life, a nearby homeowner removed items from her home...

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Kareen Daley, a woman facing a murder charge in relation to the death of a man in Mona Commons, St Andrew, was remanded in the Corporate Area Resident Magis-trate's Court yesterday.

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The teacher from Buff Bay, Portland who is accused of beating a five-year-old boy with a ruler which allegedly resulted in his hand being broken, is to return to the Buff Bay Resident Magistrate's Court on February 10.

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In the latest twist to a story that THE STAR published yesterday, members of a West-moreland-based Apostolic church are claiming that the obeah bottles found at their place of worship...

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A man identified only as 'Ravel' was shot and killed by unknown assailant(s) at Orange district, St James on Wednesday. He is of dark complexion, slim build and about 180 centimetres (5 feet 11 inches) ...

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Thousands of Jamaicans waiting for barrels and other personal effects from friends and relatives overseas may not get them in time for the Christmas holidays.

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A security guard and a woman were given a trial date in April for a fight they had at the Comprehensive Health Centre on Slipe Pen Road, Kingston, in October.

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Police have not made a breakthrough in investigations into a double murder which occurred at Royal Meadows, Tredegar Park, in the St Catherine North Division last week...

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The Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court gave Latoya Reed and David Scott a date in January to further mention the charges laid against them for murder and cruelty to a child...

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As part of its self-management thrust which includes medical management, stress management and behaviour change, the Ministry of Health is reminding diabetics to take their medication on time...

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Come January 2010, the Ministry of Education will roll out a multi-million dollar Career Advancement Programme (CAP), which will ensure that students leaving secondary school are literate ...

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