Lead Stories

TAX-PAYING Jamaicans have been spared the pain of a levy package this year as Finance Minister Audley Shaw kept his promise of no new taxes....

GOVERNMENT WORKERS who are facilitating the leakage of tax revenues have been warned that they will be pursued and punished for their dirty deeds....

Attorney-at-law Harold Brady has failed to convince Solicitor General Douglas Leys that the American law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips had corrected the "false claim" that it had been contracted to represent the Jamaican Government.

The loud sigh and continuous murmurs revealed the obvious frustrations of the patients at the Accident and Emergency Department of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) yesterday, as they waited to get medical assistance....

The Ministry of Education will today unveil proposals that will result in significant changes to the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). The findings and recommendations of the GSAT Review Committee will also be presented at a public consultation...

Health care at 11 public hospitals across five parishes was disrupted yesterday after scores of registered nurses called in sick, the second time in a month. At the Kingston Public Hospital, for example, more than 15 patients lined up outside the Renal...

The headline of the lead story yesterday, 'Dudus will not hurt ties', was not a quote from our interview with United States chargé d'affaires to Jamaica, Isiah Parnell.

Education Minister Andrew Holness has told teachers that Government was committed to paying them outstanding amounts agreed to, but could not say how much or when they would get paid.Addressing the opening...

A wave of United Kingdom visa restrictions now looms for several Caribbean nations. The possibility of these restrictions comes at the same time as current immigration rules make it tougher for Caribbean and other Commonwealth nationals to work or seek residence...

Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington is expected to get a preliminary report today on the fatal shooting of Everton Parchment last Saturday night. The 32-year-old Parchment, of an Arnett Gardens, Kingston 12, address, was killed along Spanish...

The Media Association Jamaica (MAJ) is in the dark about a proposal being considered by the Government to allow Chinese entities to start operating a radio and television station locally.Almost one week after Information Minister Daryl Vaz made...

The troubles facing popular dancehall star Bounty Killer are mounting. Less than one week after the United States Embassy in St Andrew indicated that he was among five Jamaican entertainers to have their visas revoked...