'Million-Woman March' on today
JAMAICA'S FIRST 'Million Woman March', will take place in Kingston today, Emancipation Day. The march is intended to be a 'movement' against the nation's crime rate and a symbolic proclamation on the part of Jamaica's women...

Marvia Roach - Keeping cricket fans abreast with World Cup 2007 news
WITHOUT THE communications arm of World Cup Cricket 2007, packaging, promoting and showcasing cricket's premier event when the world visits the Caribbean in 2007 would be impossible.

Hylton to replace Williams in West St Andrew
AMBASSADOR ANTHONY Hylton has been selected to replace the People's National Party (PNP)'s outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for the West St. Andrew constituency O.T. Williams.

Five killed on weekend
FIVE PERSONS were shot and killed in Kingston and St. Catherine on Saturday. According to reports from the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), three men were murdered in two separate incidents at East Avenue and Seventh Street in Greenwich Town...

Old Harbour residents stage roadblock against police action
SPANISH TOWN: HAILS OF stones and other makeshift missiles peppered an armoured police car and workers from the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) as residents of Old Harbour tried to prevent them from clearing a major roadblock...

Church service to start Jamaica's Independence celebrations in Britain
LONDON, England: AS PART of Jamaica's 43rd year of Independence, Jamaicans in Britain will celebrate the event with a national church service of praise and thanksgiving at a parish church in Trafalagar Square in London on August 6.

Gov't eyes draining 'St Bess' pond to reclaim farmlands
WESTERN BUREAU: OFFICIALS OF the Ministry of Land and Environment and the National Works Agency are eyeing the possibility of cutting a channel from a flooded area in Great Bay, St. Elizabeth, to the sea to allow water to drain off...