WESTERN BUREAU: The new Bail Act has apparently stung United States renowned televangelist the Reverend Dr Paul Lewis, as he was remanded on Wednesday evening, mere hours after being granted bail in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident...

Diplomats turned up yesterday at the home of the Barbados honorary consul in St Andrew to pay their respects to the late prime minister of Barbados, David Thompson.Thompson passed away at his home after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer nearly four...

Rosalyn Bell-Wilson, one of the passengers of the ill-fated Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus involved in a fatal accident two weeks ago, has sued the company.Jeremy Charles Stewart, the driver of the bus, was named as Defendant No.1 in the claim...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Wednesday donated 500 wheelchairs to Food For The Poor, which will be distributed to persons in need across Jamaica.Some 250 of these are regular wheelchairs...

WESTERN BUREAU:President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association, (JHTA), Wayne Cummings, has lauded The Gleaner's Hospitality Jamaica magazine as the region's foremost tourism publication."Some people were sceptical in the beginning when the idea...

EXPRESSIONS OF shock and dismay rolled off the tongues of parliamentarians on Wednesday as they attempted to rationalise how public servants employed by the state before 2002 could currently be receiving a sum total of 74 days leave, comprising...

A programme aimed at raising the standards among motor-vehicle repair shops across the island was launched by the Jamaica Automobile Association (JAA) in Kingston on Wednesday.Under the initiative, dubbed the Approved Auto Repairer Programme...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Dr Christopher Tufton has encouraged Jamaicans to substitute local produce for those in short supply due to the recent weather conditions, rather than turn to imported foods...