Cops seize guns, ganja in the Corporate Area
Police recovered several guns and about $16 million worth of ganja in separate operations across the Corporate Area on the weekend.Five more guns are off the streets of Kingston today as the Half-Way Tree police made two separate seizures in Half-Way Tree ...
Journalists call for worldwide peace at South Korea confab
Seoul, South Korea: President of the Press Association of Jamaica, Desmond Richards, and a small contingent of Jamaican journalists, were among 350 foreign journalists, from 70 countries, calling for worldwide peace...
'Shore up Disaster Fund from NHT contributions'
Funds from the National Housing Trust (NHT) could be used to shore up the National Disaster Fund to provide Government with adequate financial resources to respond to natural disasters in a timely manner, according to Earl Jarrett, general manager...
Eight-point Portmore petition for Prime Minister
Representatives of the coalition of umbrella community organisations in Portmore, St. Catherine are to serve an eight-point petition on Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, on Thursday. The petition calls on the Prime Minister to improve conditions...
Open Bible convention tomorrow
The 58th annual convention of the Open Bible Standard Churches of Jamaica gets under way tomorrow at its national complex, in Twickenham Park, St.Catherine. It will end on Sunday, March 18, with a communion service at the National Arena in St. Andrew, starting at 10:30 a.m.
Unsavoury roads in Salt Spring
What's not working? - The colloquial usage of the word 'salt', often referring to unfavourable circumstances, is used without reservation when motorists speak about the Salt Spring Road in Montego Bay, St. James. Potholes, cracks, craters and ditches ravage....
Viewing cricket beyond the boundary
HAD HE lived, Michael Manley most certainly would have been at today's opening Cricket World Cup match between the West Indies and Pakistan at Sabina Park.Manley - last Tuesday was the 10th anniversary of his death - was one of the last Caribbean intellectuals...
Plans to resurrect Boys' Town launched
A FIVE-YEAR development plan to resurrect Boys' Town and surrounding communities in lower St. Andrew, was launched yesterday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel by the Boys' Town board of management. The project, which Boys' Town chairman Winston Davidson....
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