Please allow me the opportunity to respond to a letter on March 16, titled 'Col Douglas' misplaced gripe' and written by MichaelHis letter accuses me of failing to supply valid and credible reasons to show why the Defence Board's policy of barring non-Jamaican-born officers from being appointed chief of staff is bad for Jamaica.

The New York Review of Booksreports that a secret 2007 report by the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded that the Bush administration's treatment of detainees "constituted torture."looked at the treatment of 14 detainees transferred from CIA "black site" prisons in Afghanistan, Morocco, Poland, Romania, and Thailand to the Detainee Center at Guantanamo Bay and co

Reuters top ten news storiesdelivered to your inbox each day.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery lifted off on Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida,carrying seven astronauts on a 13-day mission to the International Space Station.Here are the crew members: *Commander Lee Archambault - A 48-year-old U.S.

Satellite Internet Accelerated Access for Africa and Middle EastDue to the new satellite capacities allocated by Lamit Company, new satellite internet access for Africa is now available to all kind of users along the entire continent.)-- New satellite internet access for Africa is now available due to the new satellite capacities allocated by Lamit Company, to all kind of users along the entire co

Hungary's President Laszlo Solyom spoke of Hungarian national unity in his speech at the commemoration of the 1848 revolution and war of independence in the Romanian Nyergesteto on Saturday.

LB Airport chief takes Obama trip in strideSouthland braces for wind, rainL.A. mayor backs Braude in electionLB may oppose postal closureBy Karen Robes Meeks, Staff WriterBoeing and Air Force officials, along with international dignitaries, celebrate the riveting of key parts in a C-17 plane that is the first of three to be shared by 12 nations.

It is a mark of American disinterest in international sports that the Netherlands' progress into the's second round should produce such shock on these shores.Dutch victories over the baseball-marinated Dominican Republic last week indeed were noteworthy, based on the Dominican-to-Netherlands ratio of big-league players.

, the Romanian police, working along with the FBI, arrested 20 individuals who allegedly built cloned bank sitesand then drained the accounts of users who were lured into logging in to them.The cloned sites, which were deployed in Italy and Spain, looked and operated like the actual bank Websites, but they asked users questions that ultimately led to the divulging of personal bank details, accordi

to possessing stolen bookmark purportedly owned by HitlerA Kenmore man pleaded guilty this morning to federal charges after he tried to sell a bookmark that had allegedly once belonged to Adolph Hitler.The ornate bookmark, said to have been a gift toAdolf Hitler, was stolen in Madrid in 2002.A Kenmore man pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S.

Romania might send more military to Afghanistan during the elections in this country if it is asked to take such a step."If a temporary supplement is necessary during the elections in Afghanistan, as part of our mandate, we may offer it but only if we are asked to,"said President Traian Basescu   on Thursday at the end of the meeting of the Supreme Council for the Country's