The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) is reaching out to other groups in the health sector as it observes its annual week of celebrations. "We are not looking at just physicians now, we really went outside...
The United States Embassy in Kingston has branded Jamaica as potentially a fertile breeding ground for terrorism. A February 2010 secret diplomatic cable from the embassy to Washington pointed to...
The Bog Walk gorge in St Catherine will not be closed next Monday as was previously announced by the National Works Agency (NWA).Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry, who stepped in and shelved the planned closure, said he will announce the new date...
WESTERN BUREAU: In his first public comment on the United States diplomatic cables acquired by WikiLeaks and now being published by The Gleaner, Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday blasted this newspaper, claiming the media house is harassing his government....
Western Bureau: While he is thrilled that major crimes, including murders, are trending down in St James, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Denver Frater, the commanding officer for Area One, is worried that social problems...
The Jamaican Government in 2007 reportedly rejected a programme proposed by the United States to deal with deportees despite previously appealing to Washington for assistance with the problem.A confidential...
WESTERN BUREAU: A historic milestone for Jamaican women in the hotel industry was accomplished on Saturday when Negril hotelier Evelyn Smith was elected the first female to head the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist...
WESTERN BUREAU: Davon Crump, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, wants a rescue plan for downtown Montego Bay to stave off widespread urban blight as commercial activities increasingly shift to the western and eastern ends of the city....
As the nation continues to digest news that former finance minister Dr Omar Davies has been shifted from that portfolio in the Opposition's shadow cabinet, a secret United States diplomatic cable is claiming that he had threatened to resign from the Portia Simpson Miller administration shortly after he was appointed by the then new prime minister.
With the election wind blowing across Jamaica, the Budget Debate in April 2007 gave the party leaders a chance to outline their platforms and they did.
A legal battle could be brewing over the controversial tender process for the Government's proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project.With the Cabinet expected to deliberate on a recommendation to scrap the tender when...
WESTERN BUREAU:AN EXCLUSIVE group of affluent "self-serving" Montegonians is being blamed for the manifestation of urban blight, which threatens the commercial viability of downtown Montego Bay."Montego Bay is...
Rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have shot down the government's request for them to forgo a year's worth of retroactive payment.According to Sergeant Raymond...
WESTERN BUREAU:Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has no intention of backing down on the 100 per cent increase in the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), even as he chides the...
A secret cable from the United States Embassy in Kingston has claimed that in early 2008 Prime Minister Bruce Golding was snubbed by the president of Spain, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who refused to meet him.
Dr Peter Phillips has rejected suggestions that his relationship with some United States government officials is or has ever been abnormal and declared that he had never second-guessed himself on his role in the extradition affair of the reputed influential Tivoli Gardens don, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Western Bureau: WITH SOME forty per cent of its population living outside the established formal sector, the city of Montego Bay's revenue generating capacity is being badly hampered as...
RIVERSDALE, St Catherine: TO THE uninformed, it's just another roadway. To members of the community, it is just there. To visitors, it is billed as the 'Eighth Wonder of the World'.
THE OLD adage says 'seven brothers, seven different minds', but 19-year-old Kyle and 16-year-old Ryan Wallace have similar ambitions. Both youngsters hail from the Arnett Gardens community and are now involved in the Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) programme at the Inner City Ministries complex in Arnett Gardens.
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:MEMBERS OF Dela Vega City Children's Club were among scores of volunteers who turned up at the Social Development Commission's (SDC) Greater St Catherine complex in Spanish Town last week Friday, to give support to the...
ALEXANDER POWELL, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), has defended the recent farmers' market initiative for the financial liberation it has given local farmers.
PORTMORE, St Catherine: IN HIS report for the first quarter of this year, Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton reported that domestic crop production had increased by 20 per cent over the corresponding period for 2010, with the overall increase settling at 14 per cent.
