Labour Minister Pearnel Charles has hit back at claims by the National Workers Union (NWU), that his ministry is undermining Jamaican workers by providing work permits to foreigners.
The Premier League Clubs Association, PLCA, has raised another $45 million worth of sponsorship for the country’s top football competition – the Digicel Premier League.
Football’s world governing body, FIFA, has fired the executive of the Grenada Football Association effectively ending the ongoing turmoil and clearing the way for fresh general elections.
Spain won their third straight game at the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt today, comfortably beating Venezuela 3-0 thanks to goals from Daniel Parejo, Aaron Niguez and Ander Herrera.
West Indies seamer Lionel Baker will captain Montserrat in two warm-up matches against Antigua and Barbuda ahead of the NAGICO Leeward Islands Cricket Association one-day tournament later this month.
The Jamaican Association of Students at the Cave Hill in Barbados is this afternoon relieved by the Government’s decision to continue to provide boarding grants for Jamaican students overseas with first degrees.
The sentencing of the three men who have been convicted of the murder of 48-year-old Assistant Police Commissioner Gilbert Kameka has been set for October 15.
Representatives of the University and Allied Workers Union, UAWU and the management of the Iberostar Rose Hall Hotel are now meeting at the labour ministry in a bid to settle a dispute.
The Education Minister Andrew Holness has dismissed claims that hundreds of students will not be able to sit external examinations this year because of a decision to cut $166 million from the money allocated for project.