PNP returns cash - Trafigura saga comes to an end
The Trafigura Beheer debacle has come to an end, exactly 142 days after Prime Minister and president of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller, pledged that the $31 million so-called donation from the Dutch oil trader...
Culture plaza was our idea, say Allman Town residents
EFFORTS to clean up the city of Kingston and to display a squeaky clean image of Jamaica during Cricket World Cup (CWC) may be marred if residents of the Greater Allman Town area continue to feel disrespected. Some persons who live in the immediate environment...
National Solid Waste Management Authority saga deepens - Four board members resign over Errol Greene's dismissal
The controversy at the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) over the dismissal of Executive Director Errol Greene has deepened with the resignation of four board members.At the same time, Frank Phipps Q.C., the attorney representing Mr. Greene...
There is going to bea big cricket balls-up! - The hassle of intra-regional travel ahead of CWC
Last Wednesday, I left Jamaica en route to Kingstown (St. Vincent) via Barbados. With the start of Cricket World Cup (CWC) only days away, the experience was ominous. First, I must say that the Caribbean Single Immigration Space worked well enough. As I left Jamaica...
Concrete mixer crushes man
A family is mourning the loss of their beloved relative after he died in hospital on Sunday from injuries he sustained inside a mechanical concrete mixer at Newport West in Kingston. Dead is Richard McKenzie, a 27-year-old construction worker of Majesty Gardens...
Ganja found at Port Esquivel
OVER 100 POUNDS of compressed ganja was seized yesterday at the Port Esquivel complex in St. Catherine, by a joint team from the Marine Police and Coast Guard. Head of the Marine Police, Superintendent Marlon Dietrich, said the weed was sealed in a steel canister.
Policeman loses appeal
A POLICEMAN who had 32 years service in the police force wept yesterday after he lost his appeal against his conviction and 12-month prison sentence for a breach of the Corruption Prevention Act.He is Constable Barrington Williams who was attached...
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