Correctional officers have been lauded for their commitment to country despite having to grapple with tough inmates and even tougher work conditions.Speaking at an award ceremony at Terra Nova Hotel in St Andrew yesterday...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has expressed confidence that he will be able to handle the taxing demands of leading CARICOM while tackling the many problems facing his administration at home."...
IT WAS all cheers at Creative Kids Learning Academy on Wednesday as the school celebrated its success in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).The institution, which produced several high performers, including a government...
LeBron James will join fellow NBA stars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh at the Miami Heat.Ending weeks of silence and drama, the two-time MVP said on his ESPN television special from Greenwich, Connecticut, on Thursday night...
Northern Caribbean University's (NCU's) Team Xormis have emerged champions of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interoperability Competition. Team Xormis rocketed past 90 competitors from across the globe in preliminary contests before beating Brazil...
A POLICE superintendent and at least two lesser-ranked cops are among 70 licensed gun owners whose permits are now under the microscope of the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA), which is weighing whether it should...
NEW YORK (AP): A number of over-the-counter drugs, including the popular Benadryl and Tylenol brands, have been recalled from Jamaica and six other nations because of a musty and mouldy smell...
Olympic and World 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser is now awaiting a ruling from the Jamaica Amateur Athletic Association (JAAA) to know whether she will be able to compete for the rest of season after testing positive for a prohibited drug at an IAAF Diamond League...
THEY HAD no unripe limes or horseshoes in their pockets. Nor did they wear their shirts inside out to ward off evil spirits. Such are the usual superstitions of the living among the dead....
GOVERNMENT BACKBENCHER Clive Mullings has argued for the establishment of a whistle-blower office to ensure the proposed law is effective.At the same time, other members of the joint select committee of Parliament examining the bill have suggested that...
Jitters over whether a merger of Air Jamaica and Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) would fall through were put to rest last night, as Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said her government would honour...
Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has pledged to boost funding for programmes and research projects at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Parents of hearing-impaired children who opposed the use of Patois in sign language to teach deaf children have had second thoughts on what they saw as a controversial learning method. Since 2000, the Jamaica Association...
IF YOUR relatives were buried in the May Pen Cemetery in the last few decades, chances are their tombs have been disturbed. It is also possible that their remains may be among the morbid mosaic of bones which litter sections of the burial ground.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has challenged Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, the former police commissioner, to provide facts to back up his allegations that ousted west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke was tipped off about the pending extradition...
WESTERN BUREAU: Premier of The Cayman Islands, W. McKeeva Bush, is considering making it easier for Jamaicans to visit that country once they are already holders of a United States visa.
HIT BY the negative effects of the United Kingdom's (UK) air passenger duty (APD) on the Caribbean tourism market, regional states are pushing for further negotiations with the UK for adjustments to the charge....
WESTERN BUREAU: The four-day Conference of Heads of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ended in Montego Bay yesterday with the issue of governance still unresolved. CARICOM has been accused of not doing enough...
The government-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is to pay $6 million with interest to a former conductress who was injured on the job because of safety hazards. Stephanie Tilmutt had judgment awarded in her favour...
The contentious issue of the free movement of CARICOM nationals through the 15 member states remained stalled yesterday as regional leaders closed their 31st heads of government meeting in Montego Bay, St James....
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI) is looking to international donors for US$2 million to finance the cost of living expenses for 200 Haitian students...
Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo has given Jamaica a not-too-subtle hint that it is wasting its time whining about unfair trade practices by its Caribbean neighbours. Instead, Jagdeo has suggested that Jamaica and other...
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) has confirmed that it boycotted Sunday's ceremonial opening of the 31st meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government in Montego Bay, St James.PNP Deputy Chairman Anthony Hylton...
RESIDENTS OF Darlow and surrounding districts from Rock to Eden in Clarendon will soon be able to enjoy the return of regular visits from a doctor or family nurse practitioner, along with the existing services of maternal and child health...
