There's no food crisis - Kellier

Consumers are being assured that there is no need to panic, as despite islandwide reports of a pending food shortage because of the prolonged drought, the Government is insisting that depressed agricultural...

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Hospitality Jamaica

Caribbean arrivals up, visitor spend trending positively!

Preserving Maidstone's heritage

Part and parcel of the brutal system of slavery, Maidstone in Manchester was a 349-acre coffee plantation originally owned by Thomas Frith. Operations ceased on the plantation after Emancipation in 1838....

• Customs revamps AEO programme to meet global standards
• Give every child an equal chance - Bowes-Howell

Sunshine Girls ready for NZ test

GLASGOW, Scotland: Jamaica's Sunshine Girls will look to tie up top spot in Pool A when they face defending champions New Zealand in Commonwealth Games netball action at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre this morning at 11:30 (5:30 a.m.

• Coach full of hope for Jamaica's boxers
• Russell stakes claim in senior ranks
• Hyde targets Youth Olympic record
• We did our best - Kerr says athletes excelled under trying circumstances at World Champs

JN to open special FX window for manufacturers

The Jamaica Manufac-turers' Association (JMA) and the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) have joined forces to make foreign exchange better available to small and medium-size manufacturers in an arrangement that...

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• For breaches of labour laws in fiscal year 2013-14 ... Employers paid $108m to workers in compensation
• Due to prohibitive transaction fees ...Government re-tendering for port community system
• NCB records 29% increase in net profit

Dates set for the ninth staging of the CaribbeanTales Films Festival

CaribbeanTales International Film Festival (CTFF) is celebrating its ninth anniversary and will this year return to Toronto, Canada, for the annual celebrations. Under the theme, 'Our Lens, Our Perspective'...

• Good music, intentions from Alpha Generations
• Prayer Warrior' takes JCDC gospel title

Keiran King: There’s no deeper meaning to life — deal with it

"The question of the purpose of human life has been raised countless times; it has never yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one.” — Sigmund FreudIn the film The Invention...

• Betraying our heroes
• NEPA won't clip bird hunters' wings
• Go after bigwig tax cheats

Cynics holding Jamaica back

THE EDITOR, Sir:The outlook of Dara Johnson, whose letter, 'Health and logistics hubs are pipe dreams', was published July 28, 2014, and Sheree Downey, whose 'Really, Dr Ferguson? Jamaica a health hub', was published on July 23, 2014, both in The...

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HEALTH TRENDS

Fist bumps less germy than handshakes - study - According to a new study, the familiar knocking of knuckles spreads only one-twentieth the amount of bacteria that a handshake does...

Corporate Sightings

It's been a busy summer for the corporate people.We have scenes from Relay For Life, Reggae Sumfest, and there's a new governor in town.

Church legal clinic gives immigrants place to turn

INDIANA, Logansport, (AP):She's worried about her oldest daughter, now almost 18, who's residing with strangers in Honduras.She talks to her daughter almost daily, she said, but the last time she saw her in person was when her daughter was seven years...

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