WESTERN BUREAU:As pimps and prostitutes migrate from Ocho Rios to Falmouth, Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry is warning Jamaicans not to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.Weeks after the opening of the Falmouth Port, reports have surfaced...
The Government's plan to remove youths from police lock-ups and other adult facilities seems set for an extended delay as the proposed April 1 deadline has been missed and there is no indication when the new Metcalfe Street Juvenile Remand Centre will...
PORT MARIA, St Mary: RESIDENTS OF St Mary are set to benefit from a series of screening and health information, as the North East Regional Health Authority last Friday launched Health Month. The month is being observed under the theme...
SPANISH TOWN: ONE HUNDRED and twenty-five persons who are in need of wheelchairs will be receiving the well-needed device through the kind donation of a Rotary Club in the United States of America.
Faculty and staff at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) have been beaming with pride since learning that their colleagues have been selected All-Island Boss and All-Island Administrative Professional for 2011.Elaine Oxamendi Vicet...
Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has urged State Minister Robert Montague to use the first two verses of Psalm 41 as a guiding light to his policy on the elderly.The comments, made during a contribution...
A St Catherine man who devised an elaborate scheme to snatch 93 acres of land valued at $168 million from two St Mary land owners, then sell it for a mere $5 million two years ago, has pleaded guilty in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court....
Calm returned to Hessen Castle and surrounding communities in deep rural St Ann yesterday, a day after residents protested the killing of a man by a licensed firearm holder. Relatives, aided by residents of the community of Hessen Castle...
Legal arguments were completed yesterday in the appeal brought by Queen's Counsel R.N.A. Henriques, who is challenging his removal as counsel for the FINSAC commission of enquiry.
Last September, the Judicial Review Court handed down a ruling which removed Henriques...
Akeem Gordon (left), student of the Seaview Gardens Primary School, looks on as Kefian Hamilton inspects a shopping bag she received during yesterday's launch of Scotiabank Group's Scotia Goes Green...
There were no lavish celebrations when athletes, students and teachers of Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletics Championships kingpins Jamaica College...
OPPOSITION SENATOR A.J. Nicholson has expressed doubt that condemned persons will ever be executed in Jamaica. "I don't believe the death penalty is ever going to be carried out in Jamaica again...
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has hammered the Government over several policy initiatives introduced by the education ministry, arguing that some will not have the impact that was intended and that others have started to raise the frustration...
CHRISTIANA, Manchester: IT WAS an off day from the rigours of academics yesterday as Holmwood Technical High students, teachers, vendors and alumni crammed into the main auditorium to celebrate their latest...
BLEAK WEATHER conditions reflected the mood of the Marcus Garvey Technical High School community Monday morning as news spread among students that one of their own was killed early Saturday morning at his home in Hampstead...
The Vineyard Town Golden Age Home has defended the quality of the meals it serves to the hundreds of elderly and disabled persons housed there, despite the seemingly paltry rates approved by Cabinet earlier this year....
Hours after an emergency meeting of the 15-member board of The Golden Age Home yesterday, an impromptu visit to the institution revealed that at least one congenitally disabled female patient was still left half-naked on the institution's floor....
OCHO RIOS, St Ann: EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES have opened up in the bauxite industry in St Ann for owners and operators of large trucks.One private contractor, Noel Hill, is seeking between...
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: Tameika Frater of 36 Market Street in Falmouth had retired to bed in the dark approximately 10 o'clock Saturday during an electrical outage. Sometime later, she awoke to see her building ablaze and dashed for safety.....
Board houses are steadily becoming a thing of the past as more and more Jamaicans seem to be moving towards concrete houses, data from the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), conducted over a period of two decades, have revealed....
The advent of cruise shipping in the town of Falmouth is a phenomenon that is viewed by the business community, residents, and a section of the religious community of Trelawny with mixed reactions....
Despite being the capital of St Ann, St Ann's Bay continues to lag behind the resort town of Ocho Rios in several areas of development, including job creation, business, and maybe superfluously, population growth....
The government is planning on implementing a national identification system (NIDS), which will ensure that every man, woman, and child in Jamaica will have their own unique identification number that will give the Government...
AS BABY boomers come of age and the early 1970s National Family Planning Board's (NFPB's) 'Two is Better Than Too Many' campaign put brakes on the country's runaway birth rate, Jamaica is in the throes of an expanding ageing...
One of the most significant aspects of population change in Jamaica in the past 30 years has been the growth of the parish of St Catherine. Simultaneously with this growth is the continued decline in the population of the parish of Kingston...
