Sitting for long periods after 60 can increase disability risk - A recent study by Northwestern Medicine in the United States found that for each additional hour someone 60 years or older sat, they doubled their risk of being disabled...
Digicel Jamaica is reporting double-digit growth in data revenues and data-plan subscribers over the last quarter ending December 2013.The growth, according to Digicel CEO Barry O'Brien, is due to effective strategies over the past year to deliver...
Tertiary institutions are being implored to become more than just repositories of information and start, in a practical way, moving to solve the problems plaguing the country.Maxine Henry-Wilson, executive director and...
PERSONS WHO falsify invoices to escape paying the maximum customs duty on goods imported into Jamaica could, in the future, face jail time instead of only a fine.At present, Jamaica Customs applies a penalty of three...
Former National Security Minister K.D. Knight revealed yesterday that during his tenure, he resisted a recommendation by a specially appointed task force to merge the Jamaica Constabulary Force...
ATTORNEY GENERAL Patrick Atkinson yesterday accused the parliamentary Opposition of seeking to besmirch the character and reputation of jurist Velma Hylton. While declaring he saw no reason to recommend to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller that she reconsider Hylton's appointment ...
JSE profit plunges - The Jamaica Stock Exchange Limited reported a plunge in net profit last year on the back of reduced revenues.The JSE made pretax profit of $462,000, which was bumped up to $7.19 million after tax credits in 2013.In...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC):Captain Dwayne Bravo has appealed for more runs when the West Indies take on England in the third and deciding one-day international (ODI) in Antigua today.England levelled the series one-all after holding their nerve to clinch...
The Barbados In-vestors and Policy-holders Alliance INC (BIPA) says comments by central bank chief, Dr Delisle Worrell, of a possible solution for settling outstanding Clico claims in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean have caused confusion.Worrell told...
Few people remember what was in the Sunday papers in 1998, but Irish billionaire Dermot Desmond certainly does.The canny investor - who made hundreds of millions of pounds from turning round London's City Airport - is suing the Sunday...
Portmore United head coach Calvin Lewis has charged his strikers with the duty of getting the ball into the back of the net by any means necessary, as the team continues its battle for survival in the local top flight....
BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CMC):Leeward Islands opened their campaign with a 79-run win over Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) on the final day of the first round WICB Regional Four-Day tournament cricket match here yesterday....
Smith ends career with SA in trouble - CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP):South Africa captain Graeme Smith's international cricket career came to an abrupt end yesterday when he was dismissed for three as Australia moved to within six wickets of...
Justice Kirk Anderson has turned down an application by reggae artiste Tony Rebel and his company to strike out the multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought against them by musician Jah Wayne.