Transport and Works Minister, Mike Henry has called for the United Nations General Assembly to promote the establishment of a Global Motor Vehicle Safety Standard, to help reduce road fatalities worldwide.
The promoter of the recently held British Link Up dance at the La Roose Club in Portmore St. Catherine has been fined $80,000 for breaching the Noise Abatement Act.
There are reports that a policeman who was ordered suspension by Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, after he admitted that he had fabricated evidence in a murder trial is still on the job.
A settlement has been reached between the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), and several taxi and bus operators in the corporate area regarding the recent proposed increase in sub-franchise fees.
The special constable who was charged with the death of an 11 month old infant in Spanish Town, St. Catherine last month appeared in the Home Circuit court this morning.
The Jamaica Fire Brigade said its investigations have revealed that there was no fire aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship off the St. Ann coast yesterday.
$2.5 billion has been allocated for the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) in the 2008/09 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives.
Several members of the Jamaica Teachers Association (JTA) are not supporting the plans by the Education Ministry to empower some teachers to search students.
