A deep, rural experience in Hartlands - Deep rural living in Hartlands
In the light of the scorching midday sun, the two women, with their heads and faces covered with old T-shirts, were bent over what looked like a row of weeds. It was a dry, brown section of a cane field that the women were standing in, but it was hard to tell...
Fire at Musgrave Girls' Home
Fire yesterday afternoon gutted the Musgrave Girls' Home in St. Andrew but the 25 girls there were not hurt. District Officer at the Half-Way Tree Fire Station, Nigel Cox, said the fire started shortly after midday. He said that, on arrival, the entire structure...
Bed shortage at Cornwall Regional
WESTERN BUREAU:Health authorities at the Cornwall Regional Hospital are facing a serious dilemma, as inadequate bed space is reportedly forcing them to discharge patients who are still in need of hospital care. "What we have is a lack of bed space, not a bed shortage," said Everton...
Motorist gets two years
Justice Almarie Sinclair Haynes yesterday spoke out against the total disregard which some motorists have for other road users when she sentenced a motorist to two years' imprisonment for causing death by dangerous driving...
Court enlightens landlady
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: A landlady, who asked the Jamaica Public Service Company to terminate the power supply to her tenants, wept openly when she was sentenced to 30 days at hard labour for breaching the Rent Assessment Board Act.
Government will find hospital fee - PM
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has dismissed claims that the Government would not be able to fund the $350 million shortfall in the Budget, arising from the exemption of hospital fees for children. Responding to questions at a post-Budget Debate...
Tainos Day tomorrow
Tomorrow will be marked as the first Tainos Day, in commemoration of the original inhabitants of Jamaica.The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) said it has decided to designate the day to the legacy of the Tainos, the name given to Arawaks in the northern Caribbean...
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