Prime Minister Bruce Golding says the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) will have a positive spin-off by stimulating the economy.Golding was speaking at the Manchester launch of the JDIP in Christiana yesterday."One of the important...
The local farming sector has racked up post-harvest losses of close to $5 billion each year.
Agriculture Minister Dr Chris Tufton disclosed yesterday that this is due to improper post-harvesting practices by farmers....
FOR WEEKS after the fatal shooting of four persons by a special team under the command of former Senior Superintendent of Police Reneto Adams seven years ago, the rural community of Kraal, Clarendon, dominated conversation...
Concerned Olint members in Jamaica say they have been assured by United States (US) authorities that funds from the failed investment scheme will be paid out to victims and without bias.The Association of Concerned Olint Members...
Contrasting views have coloured the debate over whether investors whose funds have disappeared in Cash Plus Ltd and Olint Corporation Ltd can reclaim the funds from those who pocketed big bucks from the ill-fated...
THE BOARD and senior management of the National Housing Trust (NHT) have come out strongly against a recommendation by the Public Sector Transformation Unit (PSTU) that the trust be placed under the Ministry of Water and Housing, citing fears that contributors...
The island's registered nurses have been promised that they will receive their more than $500 million in outstanding allowances by the end of October. Cabinet on Monday had arrived at the final decision on the crucial proposal for the country's more than...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
ALLEGED crime lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke has added two more attorneys to his legal team as he prepares to fight charges which could land him in prison for life. Coke, who appeared in a New York courtroom yesterday, has hired Frank Doddato...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Renowned Jamaican professor, Barry Chevannes, has been hospitalised in serious condition since Saturday. Reports are that Chevannes, a sociologist who has lectured at the University of the West Indies for many years, was at his home...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The second school of excellence to open in Jamaica, Steer Town Academy, which is temporarily housed in the newly built Mansfield Primary School in St Ann, started operations on Monday with no hitches."We had an excellent...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has reversed an earlier decision barring investigators from Public Defender Earl Witter's office from accessing police lock-ups without prior notice.A release issued from Witter's office last night stated that a letter...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
The second fish kill this year to plague the Kingston Harbour has left fisherfolk caught in the clutches of fear as they worry about their livelihood. The National Environment and Planning Agency's (NEPA) public...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A United States nurse practitioner is fuming over what she describes as the debilitating democracy cramping her efforts to assist needy institutions in the island. During a visit to the Fruitful Vale Primary School...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn yesterday withdrew the claim she had filed against Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey. The claim was withdrawn after Llewellyn's lawyers accepted an indication from Pusey's...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
EVEN IN this day of high-tech agricultural practices, the donkey continues to play a key role in farming communities in Clarendon. "If I eat food a him mek mi eat, is a blessed thing to me," 74-year-old Duncan 'Doctor' Palmer said as he sat astride his donkey...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
One month after a massive fire caused millions of dollars in damage to a section of the institution, Moneague College in St Ann reopened its doors to students on Monday."By Monday (next week) everything should be back...
Published:Wednesday | September 8, 2010 | 12:00 AM
A SHARP 63 per cent increase in murders in St Mary, when compared with the similar period last year, has jolted the police into swift action as they craft social-intervention strategies aimed at reducing domestic killings in the parish....
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, particularly those aligned to the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA), have pooled human and financial resources in an all-out effort to smash an emerging debit-card scam that is threatening the security confidence of the electronic banking system...
Worried new pupils have fears addressed - Pep talks were the order of the day at several Corporate Area high schools yesterday as administrators sought to comfort those students who were reluctant to take up their Grade Six Achievement Test...
WESTERN BUREAU:Jamaica's bid to stem HIV/ AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis is poised to hit a snag, as the country's 'upper-middle income' classification renders it ineligible for further financial grants...
FOR THE better part of 10 years, Winston McLeary and his company of teachers were forced to play the roles of security guard and warden at Fruitful Vale All-Age School, which had been located at the edge of a busy...
Good day,I would like to know how do I go about filing for custody for my daughter, who will be 15 in December?Her father wants her to stay there with him in Canada.
Good day,I need your response urgently on this matter. My uncle is filing for my mother but the thing is, she got married last year. Since July this year, we started receiving some immigration papers...
WESTERN BUREAU: A broken sewer pipe along a busy thoroughfare in Montego Bay, and the reopening of schools, could combine to cause peak-hour travel woes for commuters who are already experiencing delays on the Bogue main road....
