The much-touted new Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) smarter-card project is late in leaving its planning and testing depot for a promised full system-wide roll-out.

Nearly four years after the Belgian government donated a multimillion-dollar bus-driving simulator to the Government of Jamaica, the very expensive piece of technology now lays in ruins and will not be repaired.

Scores of Jamaicans are purchasing substandard toilet tissues and putting themselves at risk of serious health problems. Sources in the health and manufacturing sectors last week confirmed that a large quantity of substandard toilet tissues is being imported into the island, mainly from Asia.

Wanted: A green thumb with extensive knowledge of the black, or at least gray, market. As Washington state tries to figure out how to regulate its newly legal marijuana, officials are hiring an adviser on all things weed: how it's best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged and cooked into brownies.

As a number of Caribbean and Latin American countries lag behind because of lack of equity, the Pan American Health Organisation's (PAHO) new director, Dr Carissa Etienne, has placed Universal Health Coverage at the core of her agenda.