The nation's longest federal court vacancy ended last Thursday after nearly 14 years of foot-dragging and politics as the US Senate confirmed a Jamaican-born university professor to a North Carolina trial court seat in a bipartisan vote.
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A gunman was disarmed by a man he attacked along the Greendale main road in St Catherine on Monday, December 9.
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness departed the island yesterday afternoon (Friday, December 6) for the 9th African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) Summit of Heads of State and Government in Nairobi, Kenya.