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Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

John Issa confirmed the close of the deal to sell 37 million shares representing 30 per cent shareholdings in The Pegasus hotel of Jamaica in a victory for minority investors who negotiated a substantial 71 per cent premium on the price Kevin Hendrickson paid...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

WHILE WE cannot deny there have been incremental improvements in our educational system over the past decade, we have to be careful we do not take two steps backward for every forward step that we make.I vividly recall the days...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture announced yesterday that the Youth Ambassador, Paul McFarlane, will be Jamaica's representative at the UNESCO Youth Forum to be held in Paris, France, October 17-20.A resident of St Ann, he will join hundreds...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: JAMAICAN SPRINTER and World 100-metre champion, Yohan Blake was among 20 persons honoured at the St Catherine Heroes Day Civic and Awards ceremony on Monday...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Travelport, one of the world's leading providers of global distribution systems, including the Galileo and Worldspan platforms, recently named Erika Moore as its new regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean.She has been tasked to focus ...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Some of my girlfriends will not be reading this article. So strong is their fear of developing a cancer in the breast that they avoid even reading articles on the topic. This might not be the best approach, but then fear is a strong emotion. ...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Colourful and creative. Energetic and euphonious. Those are some of the adjectives that could aptly describe the 38-year-old Cari-folk Singers' 2011 concert season held at The Little Theatre over the weekend...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Four members of the famous reggae band UB40 have been officially made bankrupt, the website www.debtmanagementtoday.co.uk revealed on Monday.According to the website, while the Birmingham-based band sold...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

More exceptional artistes have been added to the line-up of the Bob Andy Unplugged concert, which is slated to take place next week Friday night at the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium on the grounds of Jamaica College.Among them are Freddie McGregor, known...

Published:Wednesday | October 19, 2011 | 12:00 AM

THE EDITOR, Sir: I take the liberty of rephrasing a section of the penultimate paragraph of Peter Espeut's article 'What's age got to do with it?', published last Friday, for it to read thus: "The spin doctors are hard at work...

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