THE POLICE crackdown on windshield washers accused of robbing and abusing motorists at major intersections in the Corporate Area began yesterday with eight arrests.Vowing to be relentless in this crackdown, the tough-talking head of the Police Traffic...
With the current outbreak of dengue fever already claiming one life on local shores, the Ministry of Health has appealed to Jamaicans to take greater precautions to avoid being bitten by disease-carrying mosquitoes.The health ministry yesterday...
Children's Advocate Mary Clarke is calling for parents to be more careful in protecting the nation's children. Her emotional plea came hours after three siblings were burnt to death in a fire which destroyed their house...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP): Hurricane Earl battered tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and roof-ripping winds yesterday, rapidly intensifying into a major Category Four storm on a path projected to menace the United...
WESTERN BUREAU: A FAMILY in Norwood, Montego Bay, is in mourning following the tragic death of their relative, who was swept away by flood waters on Long Hill on Sunday. Gigette Fletcher-Anderson, a 37-year-old...
A TEAM from the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) arrived in St Ann yesterday to begin probing the death of Constable Sheldon Williams, who was allegedly shot by police Sunday night after he was taken into custody for discharging his firearm while on a party boat...
Ask the average teenager if he or she would want to attend school in the United States and the answer would likely be in the affirmative. But not so for 17-year-old Winston Swaby who, after migrating to the US, returned to Jamaica...
WESTERN BUREAU: Flooding and heavy rains have damaged several vehicles between Long Hill and Reading in Montego Bay, St James, and caused injuries to at least three persons.This was the latest news from the Montego Bay Fire Department yesterday...
WESTERN BUREAU:The Opposition has proposed that Prime Minister Bruce Golding assist needy students with back-to-school preparations, using the money intended to facilitate his islandwide consultations to explain his handling of the Manatt, Phelps...
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters yesterday voiced loud and clear support for their embattled leader, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who is facing calls for his resignation over his handling of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica earned US$887 million through tourism during the period January to May, with US$275 million of that amount earned by Montego Bay, St James' tourism sector. According to Tourism Minister Edmund...
The rush associated with back-to school shopping is now simmering down and this is usually the time last-minute shoppers get to scrape the gravy from the pot bottom without the hustle and bustle caused by more aggressive...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has gone on the offensive while suggesting that critics of his handling of the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips issue have been unfair, unkind and political. According to Golding, the critics, which he implied include sections of the media...
Commuters who use the Long Lane main road, adjacent to Old Stony Hill Road, are being asked to continue observing the change in route along that area until roadwork is completed.The change is to facilitate the laying of drainage pipes on a section...
The Ferncourt High School family in St Ann is mourning the passing 17-year-old Moya Brown, a quiet, unassuming student who surprised even Principal Reverend Lenworth Sterling with her eight Caribbean Secondary Education...
Despite Edmund Bartlett's hope of two million stopover visitors by year end not materialising, the tourism minister is forecasting tourist arrivals will close out at 1.9 million for 2010, four per cent more than last year's figure.
The mini-display of the Jamaica Music Museum is last on the Institute of Jamaica tour. Curator Herbie Miller is responsible for the 22 yards which trace the stages in Jamaican music's development.
Like September 1, 1957 - Kendal crash; January 4, 1907 - earthquake; and September 12, 1988 - Hurricane Gilbert; August 25, 2009, has left a permanent mark on the history pages of Jamaica.
From as far as the battle-fields of war-torn Afghanistan, the transnational kindness of total strangers could ensure that nine-year-old Jamaican boy, Richard James, goes back to school next month.
Accomplished educator and lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Joan Spencer Ernandez, is warning against using students' performance in external examinations as the only basis for comparing and branding schools.
THE TRIAL of reggae superstar Buju Banton has again been pushed back, leaving the Jamaican to spend more time in an American jail before getting a chance to clear his name.
Tourists in Montego Bay are among the thousands of Montegonians who can now access Jamaica's fastest wireless broadband service with the roll-out of Digicel's 4G broadband in the Second City.
Tax officials are warning that there will be no ease-up in the intensity with which they are going after delinquent taxpayers, chief among them being entertainers, businessmen and professionals.
