PM's $10m trips - Simpson Miller racks up big travel bill in seven months
Within seven months of ascending to the nation's highest political office in March 2006, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and members of her accompanying delegation have spent close to $10 million on official overseas visits.
Hotels cash in on jazz festival
WESTERN BUREAU: Pundits estimate that in excess of J$1 billion was pumped into the Montego Bay economy as a result of this year's staging of the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival.
Costly breaches of travel rules
Public Officials at Jamaica House have breached, with regularity, the rules regarding per diem (daily allowances) and air travel while on official visits abroad.
Child pornography law coming
With paedophiles and other sex devils using technology, particularly Internet chat rooms and instant messengers, to lure persons into sex traps, calls have come for legislation to protect minors and greater public...
'Internet-based paedophiles usually very good with kids'
RESEARCHERS SAY Internet-based paedophiles are often very good at communicating with children.
Rafting on Rio Grande - a dying business
Rio Grande rafting in Portland, once considered among the premier tourist attractions in the country, is in danger of becoming extinct, rafters say.
Distinguished J'can descendant awarded MBE
African and Caribbean Services Manager for Walsall Libraries, Sonia Dixon, whose parents are Jamaican, has been selected to be a Member of the British Empire (MBE) by the British monarch later this year, having distinguished herself...
Communities honoured for keeping the peace
Residents of 18 inner-city communities recently took centre stage at the Hilton Kingston hotel for their stellar achievements in securing peace and community development under the Citizen Security and...
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