Local residents and environmentalists have challenged a proposal to renew quarrying on Puerto Bueno Mountain near the Queen's Highway between Rio Bueno and Discovery Bay in St Ann.
WESTERN BUREAU:AIR JAMAICA will continue to operate as one of two brands under the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) umbrella, allaying fear that the country's iconic brand had been...
FAMILY AND friends of former government minister Donald Buchanan spent yesterday preparing the place in the family plot in Little Park, St Elizabeth, where he is to be buried.Buchanan, who died on Monday after battling...
POLITICAL ANALYST Dr Paul Ashley yesterday called for the media to use its position as society's watchdog to help change the electoral nomination process.Ashley, a criminal lawyer with a passion for politics...
WITH THIRTY-FIVE cases of ackee poisoning recorded in the country between December 1, 2010, and Wednesday, January 12, this year, the Ministry of Health has placed the country on high alert when consuming...
POLICE COMMISSIONER Owen Ellington has reminded members of the force that it is against the rules for them to be sporting tattoos that can be seen when they are in the public."It has come to notice that there are some...
THE MINISTRY of Education has dismissed claims of a possible pattern of witch-hunting at two schools where the leadership of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) has held senior...
THE POLICE yesterday carried out a series of coordinated operations across the Corporate Area detaining scores of persons and seizing several illegal items.
AFTER ALMOST one week of sabre rattling, the governments of Jamaica and Honduras have started talks in an effort to settle the diplomatic row over the controversial incident at sea just over one week ago.
GOVERNMENT SENATORS yesterday passed the Corruption Prevention (Special Prosecutor) Act seeking to establish the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Corruption despite a walkout by opposition senators protesting what they...
Portland resident Jermaine Webber is the 'luckiest man alive', having won the grand prize of a brand new two-bedroom house in LIME's 'Christmas Pon Di Remix' Promotion.A first-time homeowner, Webber received the keys to his Presidential Estates...
Hundreds of people flocked LIME stores in Kingston and St Catherine yesterday, eager to grab hold of mobile TV phones to view the historic broadcast of reggae superstar Buju Banton's Before the Dawn concert.The concert, which will be broadcast live on...
One of the leading entrepreneurs in the fast-food industry envisions that Jamaica's way out of its economic malaise is by renewing its focus on job creation at the microeconomic levels."It is time that we wheel...
Maurice Facey, chairman and chief executive officer of Jamaica Property Company Limited, has been named chairman of the newly appointed Tourism Advisory Council.Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett, in making the announcement yesterday, also said group...
Tension filled the New Kingston office of the Trustee in Bankruptcy yesterday as a St Thomas bailiff and his team went about the removal of furniture in an attempt to recover an $8.5-million debt allegedly owed by Cash Plus Group Ltd....
STUNG by an apparent increase in theft by scammers who illegally access banking information of customers and bleed their accounts, the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA) has joined with the police to launch a major counter-fraud initiative....
In an attempt to stem the critical shortage of nurses in Jamaica, 35 nurses are now in the island from Cuba to begin working in the public health sector.According to the Ministry of Health, the nurses will be deployed to facilities across all four...
Member of Parliament (MP) for South Central St Catherine, Sharon Hay-Webster, was yesterday served with court papers in the dual-citizenship case brought against her by Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate, Devon McDaniel.
Prominent regional officials are declaring that Caribbean Creole are languages in their own right and believe they should be treated as such and nationalised. The Caribbean officials and professional linguists were attending the first half of the two-day...
