Lobbyists to rally against passports for US citizens
LOCAL TOURISM officials plan to lobby the United States against its decision mandating its citizens to use a passport when travelling here. The announcement, made earlier this month, comes into force on January 1, 2006, a notice period...

Golding chides branding of ghettos
BRUCE GOLDING, new Leader of the Opposition, yesterday made a case for inner-city communities which he said are being branded wrongfully as protectors of criminals.

US bill saves J'can hotel workers from visa measure
THE UNITED States Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that will see Jamaica's hotel workers, who were hired under the Ministry of Labour's Overseas Employment Programme in previous years, being exempted from the annual 66,000 cap on H2B...

Armed inmate led prison unrest - report
A PRELIMINARY report into the March 31 shooting incident at the maximum security penal facility on Tower Street, Kingston, which claimed the lives of four persons, indicates that the correctional officers were attacked by an inmate, armed.

Murders clear 500
THE COUNTRY'S homicide toll climbed to 508 yesterday, following the gun slaying of at least three Craig Town residents whose bodies were found dumped in separate locations in Kingston.

Sugar worker dies in freak accident
WESTERN BUREAU: AN APPLETON Estate worker was killed in a freak accident yesterday when he reportedly fell into a sugar bin at the factory in Siloah, St. Elizabeth.The deceased man, Lloyd Campbell, 29, machinist, is the second sugar worker to have lost hi

Faulty equipment caused Long Pond accident ­ sugar group
WESTERN BUREAU: ALMOST THREE weeks after the tragic death of a technician, who was killed in an explosion at the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny, Chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers Association (AIJCFA), Allan Rickards, is blaming the acci