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Gov’t plans $8b max-security prison

Planning is under way for the construction of a new maximum-security correctional facility, with the government having identified a site and established a committee to advance the project. The development comes as Jamaica moves to modernise its correctional system, with Ministry of National Security and Peace State Minister Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn outlining a raft of measures on Monday aimed at…

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STAY ON BEACH EVICTION

The Supreme Court has imposed an injunction that temporarily blocks the country’s environment regulatory authority from evicting at least 40 people from the Jacob Taylor Beach lands in Duncans…

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