Hang 'em high - Seaga - JLP outlines broad crime-fighting plan, Drug traffickers, terrorists targeted
THE JAMAICA Labour Party (JLP) yesterday outlined a broad crime-fighting plan that advocated, among other things, capital punishment for drug traffickers and terrorists and the formation of a new national intelligence unit. The Crime Reduction Plan...
No toll fees just yet for bypass
MOTORISTS USING the Old Harbour bypass which was to have become Jamaica's first toll road, will not be paying any fees for the next two years. How soon the toll is implemented is dependent on when phase one of the Highway 2000 project is completed...
Spanish Town's Gospel Den
Soul stirring gospel music at 11 Burke Road in Spanish Town is the first sign that one is approaching a place where giving praise to God is important. If one follows the sound of the music, it will lead to a little store called 'The Grace Thrillers...
Strachan questions loan to IT firm
CONTROVERSY CONTINUES to follow the Government's information technology programme with news emerging yesterday that the IT firm Jamaica Call Centre had failed, up to March last year, to account for about US$500,000 in loans provided by...
Minister explains reasons for Air J's near mishap
A COMBINATION OF poor weather conditions and a faulty navigational system may have been responsible for Air Jamaica flight JM010 missing the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport by about five miles last November 4. Minister of Transport...
Confab on coconut disease on
IN A bid to control the lethal yellowing disease, which destroys coconut plants, and revitalise the coconut industry, the Coconut Industry Board (CIB), the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), on Monday...
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