Lead Stories

FIRST GLOBAL Bank (FGB) has secured the services of a counsellor to provide counselling for members of its staff today after the manager of the New Kingston Branch, Everett Lloyd Chito, shot and killed his wife, Karla, and then committed suicide...

THE JAMAICAN Government could be forced to recall health and Jamaica Defence Force personnel from Haiti this week as the country struggles with a $700,000-per-day operational bill.Jamaica is leading the CARICOM response in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake ...

LASCO TOP Cop of the Year for 2008, Corporal Marvin Franklin, has called on male students to set discipline as a foundation that will enable changes and outcomes that may have seemed unattainable."All of you have the potential and the ability to do far...

AMID REPORTS of child trafficking on the rise and reports that Haitian police have arrested 10 US citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country, the Jamaica Association of Young Professionals is calling...

JAMAICAN PARENTS are usually very careful about who they leave their young daughters with but they will leave their sons with almost anybody, especially a woman.

The vexed issue of teacher performance-based pay has encountered mixed comments from teachers, as well as persons outside the profession.

SOCIOLOGIST Dr Claudette Crawford-Brown has identified a new phenomenon of 'Western Union' children who have replaced the concept of 'barrel'...

THURSDAY NIGHT'S Art of Music Talent Stage at the 14th renewal of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Trelawny served up an appetising mixture of roots rock reggae, rhythm and blues, and jazz music, which left a music-hungry audience wanting more.

A policeman who pleaded guilty to corruption charges two weeks ago was sentenced to nine months' hard labour in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

A senior representative of the Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) has issued a dire forecast of the possible emergence of a number of new diseases in the coming years.

The Jamaican diaspora group in Canada wants changes to the Constitution to bar Commonwealth citizens who are not Jamaicans from being eligible to sit in Parliament.At the same time, representatives from the diaspora have argued against giving Jamaicans overseas...

The Jones Town community has plans to turn dusty unoccupied land into oases of food and plants in keeping with the idea of eating what you grow. The Jones Town Baptist Church and the Jamaica Baptist Union Mission Agency launched the initiative 'Farming inna the City'...