Protest at wharf impacts negatively on business in Jamaica
IMPORTERS DOING business at the Kingston Wharves have said that yesterday's protest action by staff members at Berth 11 at the Kingston Wharves will have a negative financial impact on their businesses.
Crime on Cabinet retreat agenda
THE LONG-AWAITED Proceeds of Crime Act will be high on the agenda of a three-day Cabinet retreat, according to a statement from the Office of the Prime Minister. The retreat, which starts tomorrow, will focus on the legislative agenda...
Jamaican elected mayor of US city
KENNETH ERROL Reeves, born to Jamaican parents, took office on Monday for the third time as mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States. Reeves, 55, was re-elected to the Cambridge Council on November 8 and, on January 1...
Jamaican drug 'kingpin' imprisoned in London
LONDON, England: A JAMAICAN man, convicted of importing and supplying cocaine while laundering cash worth up to £47m, has been sent to prison for 14 years, in the United Kingdom. The convict, 36-year-old Clifton Rochester...
Jamaican to head Baptist organisation in United States
FALMOUTH, Trelawny; A JAMAICAN, Reverend Eron Henry, has been appointed head of the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Media Centre in the United States. He will take up the position in February of this year.
Justice and freedom of expression
THE NEW Year started out with some of the most insightful and reassuring commentaries in the print media. Long may this last into 2006 and way beyond. For any country with plans to survive the Third Millennium can do with such passion for truth...
Record Hanover murders in 2005
LUCEA, Hanover: PARISH OFFICIALS and residents in Hanover are expressing grave concern about last year's record murder toll in a parish which has reputedly been one of the safest. Twenty-four murders were committed in the parish in 2005...
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