Prime Minister of Jamaica signs $billion credit deal with Brazil
AN AGREEMENT for a US$100 million (J$6.5 billion) line of credit has been signed by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, to facilitate the importation of machinery and agricultural equipment...

Nurses return to work, meet with Dalley today
NURSES ACROSS the island went back to work yesterday, ahead of a meeting with Minister of Health Horace Dalley who is hoping to avert the current crisis in the health sector. However, according to Edith Allwood-Anderson...

GSAT PERFORMERS
ESHER, Hanover: TWELVE-YEAR-OLD KEVIN Leong's 95 per cent average in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) has not only earned him a place at Cornwall College in Montego Bay, St. James, but also the Kraft Mathematics Scholarship...

Jamaica Gasolene Retailers' Association (JGRA) puts squeeze on Government
GOVERNMENT VEHICLES could come to a standstill if Shell West Indies Limited fails to adhere to a 30-day ultimatum issued by the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers' Association (JGRA). According to president of the JGRA, Trevor Heaven, if Shell fails to meet...

No link between Bacchas and police guns - expert
BALLISTICS EXPERT Daniel Wray said under cross-examination yesterday that he was not able to link the fragment from the body of 63-year-old taxi driver David Bacchas to any of the police guns he tested. Wray was testifying at the trial of Woman...

Tanker drivers warned - Cease parking in residential areas
SENIOR DIRECTOR of the Energy Division in the Ministry of Industry, Technology, Energy and Commerce, Conroy Watson, says the practice of parking tanker wagons in communities across the island could at some point plunge...