BOG WALK, St Catherine: DESPITE HER anxiety, 71 year-old Alice Mendez of West Prospect, St Catherine, expressed delight about the re-opening of the Bog Walk gorge. She was a picture of joy, as she boarded a minibus in Bog Walk on Thursday...
CHIDING Finance Minister Audley Shaw for presiding over what he called the abject mismanagement of the country's finances, the minister's opposition counterpart, Dr Peter Phillips, yesterday demanded a road map for economic growth...
The group that represents Jamaicans who lost millions in the Olint Ponzi scheme said yesterday that it had no interest in the sentence to be handed to David Smith in a United States courtroom today.Godfrey McAllister...
David Smith, the convicted operator of the Ponzi scheme, Olint, is to know his fate today when he appears in the United States District Court in Orlando, Florida. Smith is to be sentenced after pleading guilty to 23 counts of wire fraud...
Government ministers should know on Monday the proposed adjustments in the budgets for their ministries for this fiscal year. Finance Minister Audley Shaw is to present a revamped spending plan to his Cabinet colleagues...
On Tuesday afternoon, the west Kingston police laid charges against the 15-year-old girl who has been accused of killing her six-year-old brother, Howard Johnson Jr, at their home on Nelson Street in Jones Town, Kingston 12....
A PLAN that would allow Cash Plus liquidator Hugh Wildman to begin reimbursing victims of the failed investment scheme is now being discussed and an announcement could be made soon. However, Wildman, who made the disclosure...
LONDON (AP): Britain's prime minister hammered out a tough line against rioters yesterday, determined to restore order and confidence on Britain's streets as extra police officers flooded the capital for a second day....
Although officials and the police are not blaming any racial, cultural or geographical group for the wide-scale rioting that has been rocking sections of the United Kingdom (UK), talk shows in Britain yesterday reportedly began laying blame at the feet of Caribbean nationals....
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Jovial, fun-loving, always smiling, humble - those words were used to describe D'Angelo Young, who died in a gruesome road accident on Trafalgar Road on July 27, along with his friend, Dayne...
The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Alliance says its membership is facing "untold hardships and significant losses" owing to the "insensitivity" of the relevant authorities in the management of roadworks...
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Senator Dwight Nelson has announced the development of a national small-arms policy, as part of efforts to stem the flow of illegal firearms into Jamaica.Nelson said on Tuesday at a forensic technology workshop...
Friends and family members of disgraced foreign-exchange trader David Smith have submitted letters to the United States District Court in Orlando pleading for mercy for the man who led the Olint Ponzi scheme. In a memorandum filed in court last week...
CHRISTIANA, Manchester: Little did Floretta Smith and husband Jeremiah Smith know, when they bought their house at Straun Castle in Christiana, that in their twilight years, at 80 and 84, respectively, they would be living in misery....
CUSTOMERS OF the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) are expected to see a five per cent reduction in their electricity bills for August. A decline in oil prices on the international market has resulted in a drop in the fuel and Independent Power Producer (IPP)...
FINANCIAL ANALYST Anne Shirley says the Government should spearhead bipartisan talks with the Opposition and engage the private sector and other stakeholders to examine the possible implications of the historic Standard and Poor's (S&P) downgrade of the United States...
Blondel Cluff, current chief executive of the West India Committee, is seeking to make the organisation's presence felt again in Jamaica.The West India Committee, founded in 1735, is one of the oldest continuously active institutions working...
EWARTON, St Catherine: THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) on Monday took legal action against the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) following the unauthorised release of improperly treated trade effluent on July 29, which resulted...
With less than four weeks to go before the start of the new school year, Education Minister Andrew Holness is warning principals that he will not tolerate failing schools in the education system. Addressing the Ministry of Education's Region Six Back-to-School Conference...
As merchants predict difficult days ahead because of the hike in sugar prices, some consumers are planning to cut back on their intake, as they believe the 19 per cent increase in cost on the local market is far too high....
FALMOUTH FISHERMEN who were relocated in order to facilitate the development of the pier and have been forced to pay lease, now have attorney-at-law Patrick Atkinson in their corner. The fishermen, through their president, Fritz Christie...
The Jamaican police yesterday refused to discuss an incident in the upscale St Andrew community of Jacks Hill, last Friday, in which a United States (US) diplomat was robbed at gunpoint of cash and "sensitive" US Embassy documents...
LONDON (AP): A few miles from the worst violence to hit the city in 25 years, beach volleyball players dived headlong in the sand, the most summery of Olympic sports on display less than a year before the London Games....
WESTERN BUREAU: Assistant Commissioner of Police Denver Frater is to make his exit from the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to begin early retirement after a 34-year stint in the organisation...
A BRAVE woman from Hackney spoke out against 'yobs' (uncouth or thuggish working-class people) responsible for bringing devastation to her beloved area, in a passionate outburst Monday night. The woman, thought to be Pauline Pearce, cursed the "copycat"...
