Nine hundred and eighty students of Hutton's Education Unit who were at risk of not participating in the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) tests in May and June have been given the go-ahead to sit the tests...
STUNNED BY Everald Warmington's decision to break ranks during Wednesday's sitting of the House of Representatives, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has hinted the member could be strongly reprimanded...
THE ELECTORAL Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) has defended its report to Parliament on the realignment of boundaries and the increase in the number of constituencies from 60 to 63....
Hi neighbour! Let's be thankful that despite the negative attitudes and destructive dispositions of some, there are always those who will help to mend lives and pick up the pieces. A young rape victim had to flee her home in the country in fear of her...
Difference is always noted, and so it was for the duo Duane McIntosh and Sandre Malcolm, marketing students at the University of the West Indies (UWI)...
THE NATION'S most powerful group of business leaders, the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), has joined other associations and individuals in disagreeing with the Government's decision not to sign the extradition...
THE NATIONAL Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC) is to carry out urgently needed repairs to sections of the Portmore, St Catherine, leg of Highway 2000 starting May.The repairs, which will take place over a five-month period...
ON A day when Parliament debated and passed amendments imposing tougher sanctions against acts of terrorism, deported Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal, who has been accused by the United Kingdom of preaching racial...
Junior government minister Everald Warmington staged a one-man walk out of Gordon House yesterday after failed attempts to register a nay vote against an Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) report...
THE HAUNTING wail of a mother who lost her child continues to echo in the heads of her neighbours four days after Ruthlyn Williams received word that her 11-year-old son had died in hospital...
Five-year-old Rojay King went missing two days after his mother's birthday in 2002.Janet Hardie, King's mother, described a time in her life where she was depressed, heartbroken and longed for her son."I was mentally...
Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton is urging farmers to embrace the new tools and equipment being introduced locally, arguing that this will make their operations more profitable...
Workshops, building inspections and the purchase of equipment are some of the moves being made by the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) as it steps up its effort to ready the city for future earthquakes. Mayor of Kingston Desmond Mckenzie says...
A fatal stabbing incident at the Ocho Rios Transport Centre in St Ann has exposed the inability of the police to adequately protect some travellers in the parish. Two men were stabbed to death during an altercation at the transport centre...
The judicial review into the eligibility of retired Court of Appeal judge Boyd Carey to sit on the panel probing the 1990s financial sector meltdown has been set for May 25.The hearing is estimated to last four days.
Prime Minister Bruce Golding leaves the island today to head the Jamaican delegation to the 21st intersessional CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Roseau, Dominica.Golding will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister...
The police sergeant and the businessman implicated in the Munster Road gun-and-ammunition find have been remanded on corruption charges. Sergeant Russell Robinson and businessman Garnett Pennington appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's...
Government has moved one step closer to establishing a new commission to respond to the perennial cry for justice by Jamaicans who often claim their rights have been breached by persons exercising state power....
From somewhere deep in the rubble, a ray of hope peeks out for 35-year-old truck driver Alvin Alberga, as residents of his community rally to assist the man whose home was razed by fire a week ago. Bay Farm Road in Olympic...
A LACK of leadership at the community level is being blamed for levels of poverty in many Jamaican communities. Scarlette Gillings, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund...
THE JAMAICA Social Investment Fund (JSIF) says it has been building fewer community centres because of a difficulty in finding persons or agencies to take charge of the facilities."We have suffered...
More than 1,000 students from Hutton's Education Unit are at risk of not being registered for this year's Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations unless millions of dollars in outstanding fees are paid over...
As women from all spheres of Jamaican life gathered downtown Kingston to mark International Women's Day, Inter-American Year of Women was officially launched in the island yesterday. Olivia Grange...
