Relatives of Joan Llewellyn, the lone survivor of the April 7 gun attack in Three Hills, St Mary, have launched an album to raise funds towards her recovery.Llewellyn's niece, Shae Miller, said her aunt, who is paralysed...
Dr Omar Davies yesterday dismissed claims by the Government of achieving the highest level of net international reserves (NIR) in history.Davies, the opposition spokesman on finance, said the NIR level is artificial.The NIR...
Veteran journalist Barbara Gloudon has challenged media practitioners to push the Government to give a timeline on when the review of the country's libel laws will be completed.At the same time, Gloudon, a talk-show host...
The Government has called on Jamaicans to awaken their philanthropic side and help lift the country's education system from the rut."If we are going to create this egalitarian society in which we are building new human...
Director general of the Office of Utilities Regulation, Zia Mian, believes it is unlikely residents of Islamabad knew Osama bin Laden was staying near the Pakistan capital where he was killed by American forces on Sunday....
THE MINISTER of Agriculture is reporting record production in domestic crops for the first three months of the year. Minister Christopher Tufton made the announcement yesterday during a press conference held at his Hope Gardens office in St Andrew....
The Youth Upliftment Through Employment (YUTE) programme an initiative of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), is to benefit from a $20-million donation from Scotiabank.The bank made the donation yesterday. Jacqueline Sharp, Scotiabank's...
THE JAMAICAN police were placed on high alert yesterday after the United States (US) Department of State issued a worldwide alert warning that the killing of terror mastermind, Osama bin Laden, could trigger attacks against American installations across the globe....
UNITED KINGDOM-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdur Raheem Green will visit Jamaica in the coming days. The sheikh is to be the main speaker at an Islamic convention, scheduled for May 14-15, at the Red Hills Road-based mosque in St Andrew."...
WESTERN BUREAU: Some 54 Air Jamaica employees were not retained by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) when their contracts ended last Friday.Among the casualties is Sue Rosen, a vice-president who has had more than 40...
WHILE COMMENDING Finance Minister Audley Shaw for the "content and quality" of his Budget presentation last week, a powerful private-sector group wants the Government to aggressively follow through with announced reforms. ...
WASHINGTON (AP): Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said yesterday...
Students returning to school today, following the Easter break, could turn up to find closed canteens at some institutions.Michael Stewart, the immediate past president of the Jamaica...
STUDENT LEADERS from two of the country's leading tertiary institutions had mixed views on Holness' revelation that the subvention to tertiary institution could be cut in order to help capitalise the Students' Loan Bureau. Jevaughn Neil, the outgoing...
The Government has called on Jamaicans to awaken their philanthropic side and help lift the country's education system from the rut. "If we are going to create this egalitarian society in which we are building new human...
THE STREAM cascading the metallic image of a child's face wasn't the only display of emotion at the monument for children who died under tragic/violent circumstances yesterday....
For some time, Peter, an elderly Rastaman from Coopers Hill in rural upper St Andrew, has been selling huge stalks of honey-cone flowers at the intersection of Lady Musgrave Road and Seaview Avenue on Sundays....
The government is contemplating the slashing of subvention to tertiary institutions. Education Minister Andrew Holness said consideration is now being given to transferring the portion of subvention taken from tertiary institutions to the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB)....
Ocho Rios, St Ann:Four family members who were shot dead at their home in Three Hills, St Mary, on April 7 were laid to rest in St Ann yesterday.The four, 72-year-old Valdie Brown; his wife Rachel, 79; her son Fitzroy...
WESTERN BUREAU: The family of the late Ambassador John Pringle has donated 23 pieces of paintings, which were done by celebrated Jamaican artist Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds, to the National Gallery of Jamaica....
A man committed suicide yesterday morning in Comfort district, Manchester, after attempting earlier to murder a son, boyfriend, and grandmother of his ex-girlfriend.
Successive governments have pumped more than $250 million of taxpayers' money into four commissions of enquiry in just over a decade with little to show for the expenditure.
Jamaica's disaster preparedness and emergency management mechanisms are expected to be ready to deal with any eventuality arising during the 2011 tropical Atlantic hurricane season, which begins on June 1.
