Residents of Shettlewood and Burnt Ground in Hanover were last night met with gunfire as they returned home from a meeting with Health and Environment Minister, Rudyard Spencer.
Children’s Advocate, Mary Clarke is lobbying for more trained guidance counsellors to be placed in schools as a means of curbing behavioral problems in children.
Dr DK Duncan, Member of Parliament for Eastern Hanover is expected to meet with the Public Defender, lawyers and the Health and Environment Minister regarding the dispute between local residents and the cemetery operators.
Jamaica’s top junior tennis players will compete at the Junior Davis Cup and Federation Cup 16 and under events at the Central American and Caribbean regional tournaments in Honduras.
A woman and her common law husband are in police custody after being charged for the murder of a 39 year old mason in a reprisal killing at Mike Town in Manchester on March 5.
Unions representing the island’s sugar workers and the Sugar Producers Federation were last night able to reach a wage agreement during a meeting that lasted more than 12 hours at the ministry of Labour’s offices.
The nine-member Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries are pooling their resources to establish a new initiative aimed at stamping out the illegal drugs trade in the sub-region.
Several workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are back on the job after they were suspended following a fire at the Portmore depot in St. Catherine on February 23.
A 46 year old taxi operator remained in hospital in serious condition after he was shot in the head by one of three gunmen along the Middlesex Main Road in St. Elizabeth yesterday afternoon.