National Commercial Bank (NCB) Group Managing Director Patrick Hylton says Jamaica needs to urgently plan and implement compulsory strategies if it is serious about arresting declining productivity levels....
Prime Minister Bruce Golding will this morning huddle with the police and army chiefs to craft adjustments to their massive anti-crime initiative in the wake of the Government's failure yesterday to get enough votes to green-light an extension of the state of public emergency...
More than 4,000 Jamaicans have been detained under the state of emergency since it was first imposed on May 23.Responding to questions in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced that police figures up to July 14 showed that 4,181...
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Dwight Nelson last night said the parliamentary Opposition missed an opportunity to demonstrate to Jamaica that it was taking a non-partisan approach to crime fighting...
JUST OVER two years after the Government purchased St Joseph's Hospital in Kingston, the cutter-in-chief, Patricia Sinclair-McCalla, has recommended that it return to private hands.The Public Sector Master Rationalisation Plan, which was tabled...
Reckless day in Gordon House - The Golding administration and Portia Simpson Miller's Opposition engaged in a reckless piece of political gamesmanship in Parliament yesterday, for which the Jamaican people could suffer severe consequences.Both, but...
Farmers in the rugged rustic community of Free Hill, near Bamboo in St Ann, are appealing for help from the Rural Agricultural Development Authority or the Ministry of Agriculture to cover loans...
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Bruce Golding has linked a recent decline in Jamaica's murder rate to his administration's assault on crime and violence.At a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) North West St James constituency...
Agents from the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) yesterday seized a posh Mercedes-Benz motor car valued at millions of dollars from dancehall star Elephant Man in a bid to collect taxes owed by the entertainer. The car was taken from an upscale home ...
The European Union (EU) and the Food and Agriculture Organi-sation (FAO) have joined forces with the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) to help local small and backyard...
LEGAL LUMINARIES have said scores of persons now being held under the current state of emergency may have to be released when it expires on Thursday.This is because a parliamentary vote to extend the extraordinary...
FIERY DEBATE on the controversial findings of the forensic audit into operations at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) and the Petroleum Company of Jamaica is expected to begin today during a committee meeting in Gordon House.The audit examined...
MILWAUKEE (AP): For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa.
Times have changed since two months ago when dozens of residents from Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, marched in the streets and militants challenged the security forces in defence of alleged drug baron Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...
Another date is to be set for the hearing of the motion filed by Western Hanover Member of Parliament Ian Hayles, who is seeking leave to go to the United Kingdom Privy Council to challenge a ruling in the dual-citizenship case against him....
Cyril Chambers, a hard-as-nails farmer who has weathered the vagaries of a tough economy, is a firm believer that agriculture is the lifeblood of rural Jamaica. Though his four-acre farm in Carron Hall, St Mary, may be small potatoes...
Today, I am a cabbage, one of thousands trying to keep fresh and firm in overloaded vans traversing bumpy farm roads in places like Manchester and St Elizabeth before hitting the major thoroughfares en route to markets across the island...
ATHENS, Greece (AP): A Greek journalist was gunned down in a pre-dawn attack outside his home Monday by suspected members of a Greek terrorist group that had vowed to target the media, police said. At least two attackers fired 16 shots at 37-year-old...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP): Former dictator Desi Bouterse was elected president by Suriname's Parliament Monday, following weeks of jostling by opponents who sought to stop a convicted drug trafficker and ex-strongman accused of killing political...
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) plans to compel all Jamaican workers to contribute to the National Insurance Fund (NIF) whenever the party returns to power.Dr Omar Davies, the opposition spokesman on finance...
It was unclear whether Millicent Forbes, mother of Janice Allen, a 13-year-old who was struck down by a policeman's bullet in Trench Town, St Andrew, in 2000 was just plain stubborn in her pursuit to see that her daughter...
Nearly 200 mates - including a man on the police most-wanted list - were detained yesterday in a curfew in west Kingston, the constabulary said. The wanted man - whose name the police have not revealed - is expected to be charged later today...
Allied Protection Ltd is to pay more than $15 million, plus interest, to a man who has been left mentally retarded after he was struck from behind by a motor car belonging to the security company.Acting Supreme Court judge...
AGRICULTURE INTERESTS have accused hoteliers of undermining local farmers by refusing to enter into contracts for the supply of produce. But the tourism and hotel sector has denied the charge, while calling on farmers to get their act together....
WESTERN BUREAU: After a sometimes bitter and bruising campaign in the North East St Elizabeth constituency, Senator Basil Waite emerged victorious in an internal poll to choose the People's National Party candidate to line up for the constituency...
