Nothing really happens in...Guanaboa Vale
Whoosh! Another overloaded minivan blew past Miss Brown as she stood at the roadside in Guanaboa Vale in St. Catherine. Her hair and her skirt went north and a cloud of dust went into her eyes. "Cho man! Dem caan tek time drive?" she shouted.
Scotiabank donates $32 million worth of equipment to UHWI
Scotiabank Jamaica's foundation has donated equipment valued at $32 million to the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), to be used in its upgraded emergency unit.The equipment, a high definition ultrasound system, a digital diagnostic X-ray...
Knights no match for tourists
THE JAMAICA Constabulary Force (JCF) Knights proved to be no match for their West Yorkshire counterparts as they were thumped 48-8 in an invitational rugby league friendly match at Vauxhall High School yesterday. However, despite their struggles against...
EDITORIAL - The education mandate
This week's announcement by Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson that the Government will deliver just under 17,000 new secondary school places by the end of this year is welcome.It is also good news that approximately 3,300 of these places...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Tourism 'gold mine' still to be tapped
THE EDITOR, Sir: The news that the Irish will be targeted as a tourism niche market would be welcomed by many, like myself, who wish to see a more structured, sophisticated, creative and equitable approach to growing the industry in Jamaica. Indeed, the recent phenomenal growth...
New and known at 'Poetry in Motion'
Joan Andrea Hutchinson presented, uncompromisingly, Jamaican poems on love from her upcoming book to characteristically Jamaican 'forwards' of appreciation, and concert organiser Yasus Afari gave the world premiere of a part of his book...
JAS head urges CARICOM to ban poultry imports
President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Senator Norman Grant, is proposing that a ban be placed on the importation of chicken into CARICOM to foster local and regional advancement.The JAS president, who is also the chairman of the Caribbean Farmers'...
Let's do St Lucia
Once the vacation home of Napoleon's wife Josephine, St. Lucia remains an incredibly beautiful island with its rainforests, fishing villages, magnificent Pitons (mountains that seem to soar out of the waters to touch the skies) and its melting pot of people...
'A win would be good for Windies'
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): A WIN in the Cricket World Cup is the momentum West Indies cricket needs, says Clive Lloyd, the man who guided the regional team to triumphs in the 1975 and 1979 editions of the event. Reflecting on his side's effort in 1975...
