Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Re-elected president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC), Milton Samuda, yesterday urged his members to subject themselves to full disclosure as it relates to party financing. Samuda, who was unanimously returned as president of the JCC...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Jacks, River, St Mary: A number of roads in St Mary will be rehabilitated under Government's road improvement initiative, the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP).The St Mary leg of the programme was launched last Wednesday in Eden Park...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A SENIOR government technocrat has indicated that the multibillion-dollar road repair and maintenance programme now being rolled out by the Bruce Golding administration could be scaled down. While the possible...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The Medical Association of Jamaica (MAJ) is urging the Government to take swift action to prevent a total collapse of the ailing health-care system. The Dr Winston De La Haye-led association yesterday disclosed that it had diagnosed that the sector...
Published:Wednesday | September 29, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Whitehouse, Westmoreland: A new Enrichment Room established at a cost of $6.1 million and designed as a reading and mathematics resource centre to boost students' learning at the New Hope Primary and Junior High School, Whitehouse, Westmoreland...
The 2010-11 Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee competition kicks off today with the parish finals in St Elizabeth and Manchester, which will be held at the St Matthews Anglican Church in Santa Cruz at 9 a.m.
A 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound, a young man with a broken hand and a woman in her sixth month of pregnancy were among the scores of persons who had to leave the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) without treatment yesterday as the local health sector faced a major crisis....
The flooded Sir Florizel Glasspole Highway in east Kingston proved too much for two female drivers yesterday with both losing control of their vehicles hours after each other.In the first incident, the driver of a white Nissan...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has appealed to the United Nations to help stop the flow of guns into the island. Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, Golding said Latin America and the Caribbean are faced with "the twin menace of the...
For the second time in less than a month, heavy rains yesterday left some residents of Harbour View in eastern St Andrew struggling to deal with flood water which flowed into their homes.As the rain poured yesterday,...
THE PUBLIC conflict between Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn and Contractor General Greg Christie was stepped up a notch yesterday after Llewellyn dismissed his recommendations arising out of an investigation into the operations ...
Heavy rains in Manchester, St Andrew, St Thomas and Portland yesterday left several roadways blocked or reduced to single-lane access, the National Works Agency (NWA) has reported. Stephen Shaw, manager ...
It might not have been the result they were hoping for, but associates of singjay Buju Banton still welcomed the mistrial ruling in his drug-possession case in Tampa, Florida, yesterday."It's better a mistrial...
President of the Jamaica Employers' Federation, Wayne Chen, is warning the Government to avoid getting "too involved" in the issue of polygraph (lie detector) testing of employees in the private sector....
NOW that the hide-and-seek game seems to be over, at least on the part of the Government, it appears that parliamentarians may finally be forced to declare their hands in relation to possible dual allegiances. Ronald Thwaites, the member of Parliament...
The new head of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has vowed to establish a hall of fame for journalists to celebrate the accomplishments of individuals who have excelled in the profession...
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) continued its organisational restructuring with little or no surprises in its election of members to its executive during a meeting at Holiday Haven Resort in Runaway Bay...
The Government's trade and investment agency, JAMPRO, has succeeded in securing technical assistance from the Commonwealth Secretariat to undertake the development of a road map for the growth of health and wellness tourism in Jamaica....
THE RAINS that whipped the island could do little to stop a mass meeting of the Umbrella Groups of Churches in Half-Way Tree Square, St Andrew, yesterday. The church leaders took control of the bus terminal reserved for Coasters on the downtown route...
The circumstances today are a far cry from those which existed 19 years ago, but political veteran, Karl Samuda, has found himself enwrapped in a similar predicament to that of 1991 when he was ostracised from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).The JLP was...
Merita Charles, the mother of seven - Prime Minister Bruce Golding's wife, Lorna; senior government minister Pearnel; Wentworth; Kipling; Norma; Judith; and Hughlet - died in her sleep early yesterday.She had celebrated her 100th birthday on August 10...
WESTERN BUREAU:The US$10 million in emergency funding approved by the Cabinet for the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) was slashed in half by the Ministry of Finance in a bid to...
The young Turks in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) are at it again. This time, challenges to the status quo by West Portland Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz and Senator Aundré Franklin have signalled that a mood of renewal has gripped the 67-year-old organisation.
