JAILED, DEPORTED, abused and unable to manage the emotional challenges of his life, Kevin Kurt Josephs, a substance abuser, is now making strides to reintegrate into society in order to make a meaningful contribution....
Justin O'Gilvie, the business partner of former west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, is challenging the amount of money reportedly seized from his office during the incursion last May.The police have reported that $2.9 million was seized...
The United States Embassy in Kingston was apparently ticked off by Jamaica's failure to vote in line with it at the United Nations.In a May 2007 cable, embassy officials told Washington while it was not sure how Jamaica would vote on Belarus' candidacy...
As a result of the heavy showers that have been lashing the island over the last week, the Ministry of Health says it will be heightening its vector-borne disease-control programme in an attempt to rid the country of mosquitoes....
The United States Embassy in Kingston was blunt and damning in its criticism of Portia Simpson Miller's leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) less than six months after the party was booted from office in the 2007 general election. In a March 2008 diplomatic cable...
Senior members of the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) provided the United States Embassy in Kingston with a look at the dirty underbelly of Jamaican politics in the aftermath of the 2005 all-island protest...
The raging waters of the Yallahs River had completely inundated the ford that connects several communities in rural St Andrew when Allan Thompson on Tuesday offered to assist another man trying to get across.Midway through the journey....
Jamaican governments led by P.J. Patterson and Bruce Golding stood up to the mighty United States (US) and refused to fall in line with its position on Iran. Patterson earned the wrath of the United States over his Government's 2005 refusal to publicly reject comments ...
BUFF BAY, Portland:Students and teachers of Bradford Preparatory School in Buff Bay, Portland, are still mourning the death of a former pupil, whose body was found by emergency workers in his family's Homeland Court house...
THE PASSPORT Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) will be offering a mobile passport service at the Diaspora Convention, which will be held next week at Sunset Jamaica Grande hotel in Ocho Rios, St Ann. Jennifer McDonald, chief executive officer...
LINSTEAD, St Catherine: FOR 89-year-old Amzel Stubbs and his 85-year-old wife, Louise, enduring the stench of stagnant murky water and mosquito bites has become a part of their daily life...
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: SALARIES, INCLUSIVE of the retroactive payment schedule, may be paramount for the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) at this time, but other things are drawing the ire of the organisation. Speaking against the background of physical...
LABYRINTH, St Mary: LABYRINTH Primary School, which is infested with bats and termites, is to get a facelift through the intervention of the Government's poverty reduction agency the Jamaica Social...
BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth: MAYFIELD ALL-AGE School lifted one of several trophies presented at the 2011 St Elizabeth Health Department's public awareness campaign against smoking exposition, at the school last week.The trophy, along with several others...
WESTERN BUREAU: Embattled Member of Parliament Ian Hayles has expressed confidence that his constituency of Western Hanover is a "safe seat" for the Opposition People's National Party (PNP)...
A week into the hurricane season, rains have already brought misery to the perennially flood-prone areas of Clarendon, bringing back memories of anguish and loss. A decade after a fierce weather system scoured the parish, leaving untold devastation in its wake...
The National Works Agency (NWA) has attributed inconsistencies in reported projections for the cost of the Christiana road development in Manchester to the original estimate being done before the completion of detailed designs....
Jamaican students travelling to the United States to study have generally done the nation proud by sticking to the terms of their visas. Several diplomatic cables from the United States Embassy in Kingston spoke positively about the students...
Three witnesses have so far testified at the trial of the two policemen charged with the murder of the son of dancehall artiste, Spragga Benz. The Crown, represented by Meridian Kholer, deputy director of public prosecutions ...
A yellow tractor bucket sat halfway up in the fast-flowing muddy Tiber River yesterday, bearing witness to the wrath of Mother Nature.The owner said that up to late Monday night, the tractor was parked in its usual...
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament wants a complete overhaul of the internal audit system in the public sector in an effort to address a major Achilles heel in government and save taxpayers hundreds ...
FIVE PERSONS escaped serious injury in Clarendon yesterday after falling into a chasm. Stephen Shaw, manager of communications and customer service at the National Works Agency (NWA), said the incident took place in Hayes where...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the economic measures his Government has put in place are now bearing fruit and are set to put the country on a sound economic pathway.Delivering a lecture at the prestigious Brookings Institute in Washington...
Wary of claims that the 2006 cement crisis was triggered by the inaction of the then government, the Bruce Golding administration has vowed never to be caught in the same trap.A May 2006 cable from the United States Embassy in Kingston suggested ...
WESTERN JAMAICA residents were last night told to brace for tropical depression conditions from a weather system which is threatening the Cayman and Turks and Caicos islands. Ronald Jackson, director general of the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management ...
