Scammed! - Cane group pays millions to shady firm for cheap fertiliser
An Indian company has left Jamaica Cane Products Sales (JCPS) holding the bag after swindling it out of approximately $87 million that was earmarked for the purchase of cheap fertiliser from the subcontinent. The deal was made through a New York-based Jamaican company...
Tanya Miller: No challenge too big, no job too small
A Senior executive who answers her own phone sparing you the ordeal of doing battle with an over-protective assistant is a rare and refreshing find. Disbelief has you inquiring if this is normal procedure and Tanya Miller quickly responds with an emphatic yes...
Christmas Jamaican resort style
Spending the Yuletide season in a hotel is a growing trend among many Jamaicans. These include returned residents who want to eliminate the hassle of cooking and lavish preparations. Some even make it a vacation and extend the stay well into the New Year...
Peas in a pod ...Reggae Boy Demar Stewart tries to shake big brother's shadow
Demar Stewart once took extraordinary steps to distance himself from Damion 'Stew Peas' Stewart.With more than four years separating the brothers, the younger sibling always moved with his own crowd."I never really walked walked after him," Demar said...
EDITORIAL - Is the subsidy mix to UWI right?
Last weekend, the University of the West Indies (UWI) formally dedicated what it expects to be a temporary campus in Montego Bay. The university intends, over the medium term, to build a larger, sprawling campus in the Second City, as an extension to the one at Mona...
LETTER OF THE DAY - The bottom line - survive together or perish together
The Editor, Sir: As expected, the tourism sector, led by one of its prominent stakeholders, has presented the government with a wish list of concessions long before any accurate assessment of the impact of the global financial meltdown on the country has been undertaken....
Return of a dancehall rebel
DEEJAY TONY Rebel rode into the dancehall on a wave of consciousness during the early 1990s, helping to spark a Rasta revival reminiscent of the 1970s.There are flecks of grey in his beard and his frame is a lot more bulky, but the message that made songs ...
INDIA - Gov't demands 'strong action' from Pakistan
MUMBAI, India (AP): India demanded Pakistan take "strong action" against those behind the 60-hour siege that left at least 172 people dead, as new details emerged yesterday about the gunmen and the survival training that enabled them to thwart Indian...
