HE DID not disclose her name, but Karl Samuda, the member of parliament for North Central St Andrew, opened the eyes of parliamentarians to the plight of a scholar in his constituency, who he said risks falling...
MAY PEN, Clarendon: FORMER TRANSPORT and Works Minister Mike Henry has warned the governing People's National Party not to scrap the seven-year 'multi-modal' urban/rural transport system, which he had planned to implement...
The Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) has moved to strengthen accreditation of local engineers to better equip them for large international contracts.According to JIE President Omar Sweeney, "Jamaica continues to be assessed by bilateral agencies...
Amid grumbling from within the People's National Party (PNP) as it enters its annual confab, the secretariat is seeking to dispel suggestions of malaise and silence critics with a massive turnout at its 74th annual...
The Ministry of Health is to intensify its mosquito control programme in all parishes in wake of an increase in the number of reported cases of dengue fever in the island.Director of the Health Promotion and Protection Unit...
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade A.J. Nicholson is to leave the island tomorrow for an official visit to Cuba. Nicholson is expected to be there until next Wednesday....
While the number of Jamaican deportees remains high, data on the country's migration pattern is pointing to a change in the destination countries from which most migrant Jamaicans were deported last year.Findings from the latest Economic and Social...
MORE THAN $70 million is to be spent in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston, to provide sanitary conveniences for residents in the community.Sandrea Falconer, the minister with responsibility for information, said...
Forty-one-year-old Dion Palmer of Church Street was elated as he explained Melinda Brown's intervention in his life and how it inspired him to become an artist....
The National Water Commission (NWC) is urging some Corporate Area communities to start storing water as they will soon experience disruptions in their supply.
Detectives from the Half Way Tree Criminal Investigation Branch are asking anyone who has done business with Henry’s Imports on Slipe Road in St Andrew to contact them.
Two angry lesbian customers, who were accused of starting a fracas with a Jamaican-born employee at McDonald's outlet in New York have pleaded guilty to criminal charges.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has responded to the disparaging comments of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe against Jamaican men calling them unfortunate, misguided and disrespectful.
The National Democratic Movement says it supports the move by parliamentarian Damion Crawford, to use his Constituency Development Fund allocation on Education.
