Wynter's Pen, St Catherine:The New Horizon Skills Training Centre, an arm of the New Horizon Christian Outreach Ministries, has, since 2007, been quietly preparing some of the country's most challenged youths to position...
The Jamaica Business Council on HIV/AIDS (JaBCHA) last Friday announced Earl Moore as its new council manager. Moore, a former president of Guardian Life Insurance Company...
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of St James and Hanover have criticised former and present administrations for failing to properly outfit the security forces with appropriate equipment to aid in search-and-rescue operations.The complaints swirled yesterday...
Golding denies green card claims - Prime Minister Bruce Golding has rubbished claims made by a United States-based media entity that he currently holds a green card visa...
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: WHEN LOCAL fisherman Fitzroy Linton was sentenced to seven months for illegal entry in a Haitian court in 2007, little did he know that he would spend the next three years incarcerated in a cell with 64 other inmates...
FOR 18 YEARS, Leopard Maye has been producing wet sugar from a small boiling house in Summerfield, Clarendon, under conditions not far removed from those that existed during the days of slavery.
NORTH EAST St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Kern Spencer could walk out of court a free man in the coming days, and so, too, could his co-accused and companion, Coleen Wright.
THERE IS just no break for public-school teachers as president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy, and her team will today be talking to attorneys representing the organisation about a shock...
Mike Henry, Central Clarendon member of Parliament, wants an urgent meeting with Milton Brown, mayor of May Pen, to resolve the issues behind the ongoing protests by vendors in the parish capital. Henry said in a release...
Dance turns deadly Orville Alexander, a 35-year-old farmer of Thornton district, St Elizabeth, was on Saturday night stabbed to death at a dance in his community.
Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Anthony Hylton, wants Parliament to yet again debate the impact of the United States-imposed economic embargo on Cuba.Hylton wants Parliament to help the Government inform the United Nations...
There is a common thread linking Westmoreland and St James in The Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition.Camara Webber, who won the Westmoreland trophy for Haddo Primary a year ago, last Thursday took it home...
Enthusiasm and jubilation swept the Sean Lavery Faith Hall like a contagious disease last Friday evening.There were cheers, screams and hugs aplenty from a gracious winner, an exuberant champion boy and an ecstatic school society.
DESPITE an error-filled display, Jamaica's Reggae Boyz were still good enough to beat Caribbean arch-rivals, Trinidad and Tobago, 1-0 in a friendly international football match at the National Stadium last evening....
EASTERN WESTMORELAND Member of Parliament (MP), Luther Buchanan, has accused the Bruce Golding administration of mingling in nepotism in its handling of recovery efforts following the aftermath of the recent heavy rains associated with Tropical storm Nicole...
A 16-year-old boy, believed to have been forcibly removed from his home in Tivoli Gardens by members of the security forces, is one of three persons who have vanished almost five months after the military-led operation...
The rains associated with tropical storm Nicole have left many persons in the upper reaches of St Catherine greatly inconvenienced. The roads leading to many of these communities have been badly affected by land slippage and erosion....
SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP): A smooth-walled path to daylight awaited 33 trapped miners yesterday as they entered the tense final hours of a two-month odyssey christened in the terror of collapsing rock deep under a Chilean mountain....
Liaison officer for the University of the West Indies Township Programme and August Town resident Kenneth Wilson says the St Andrew community has seen a drastic reduction in crime and violence. UWI officials hope to continue this partnership...
WESTERN BUREAU: A local pastor has called for Jamaica to turn back to receiving instruction and guidance from God instead of relying only on human wisdom if it is to make any progress as a nation. The Reverend Milton...
Western Bureau: The United Kingdom imposed Air Passenger Duty (APD) is having a devastating effect on arrivals to the Caribbean, British Airways Chief Executive Officer Willie Walsh revealed yesterday ...
Ballistics tests are being done on more than 75 firearms that were taken from members of the security forces who were part of the operation which ended in the death of businessman Keith Clarke....
Caribbean societies are reportedly being devastated by the highest rates of violent crime in the world. According to the United Nations, Bahamians, Jamaicans, Haitians, Puerto Ricans and Trinidadians are four times more likely to die by gun violence than a North American.
Audley Shaw has come a long way in politics - rising from the uncomplimentary classification of Edward Seaga's 'Water Boy' in the mid-1990s to the current characterisation by some within the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as the man most likely to replace Bruce Golding as head of the Government.
SINCE IT began operation in March 2008, the Soapberry Sewage Treatment Plant has been running 24 hours each day with no downtime. Possibly the largest sewage-treatment plant in the Caribbean, with a capacity of approximately 30 million cubic metres per year, the facility is set on 200 acres in a remote location in St Catherine
