Commandant of the St Ann police, Superintendent Wayne Cameron, is urging motorists in St Ann not to leave large sums of money in their vehicles and to be extra careful when conducting financial...
Jamalco gives $7m in grantsFifty-seven students from the parishes of Clarendon and Manchester have received educational assistance valued at $7 million from Jamalco for the upcoming school year.The successful recipients received their commitment...
Principal of Spanish Town High School in St Catherine Ventley Brown has described a move by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information to increase its budgetary support to schools as welcome and valuable....
Windsor Castle All-Age gets science labStudents at the Windsor Castle All-Age School in Portland and the Horace Clarke High School in St Mary will enter the 2016-17 academic year with newly outfitted science laboratories.The facilities were provided...
The Administrator General's Department (AGD) has provided school supplies to 59 students for the upcoming academic year.The students, who were being rewarded for excellent performance in the Grade Six...
Minister of Education, Youth and Information Ruel Reid says Region Four schools are in a state of readiness for the start of the 2016-17 academic year.Region Four covers educational institutions in Westmoreland,...
Q We are a young couple (19 and 21) and we are desperate to have a baby, Doctor! Our parents don't mind as we are going to get married next year.Although we keep having sex, we have had no luck so far. Is it something to do with the menstrual cycle...
In response to the alarming number of motorcycle accidents being recorded in Westmoreland, resulting in multiple fatalities, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) will be collaborating with Back to Basics (B2B) to host the second Westmoreland staging...
The police have charged the driver who allegedly mowed down and killed a police inspector in front of the Clarks Town Police Station in Trelawny two weeks ago. The driver, 24- year-old Andre Brown, from Trelawny, has been charged with manslaughter...
People’s National Party (PNP) general secretary, Paul Burke, is claiming that statements he made regarding campaign donations have been deliberately misrepresented. Burke has been under pressure since allegations surfaced this week that he...
The People's National Party (PNP) is condemning what it calls the unethical and false comments made by leadership aspirant Dr Karl Blythe regarding the health of the president Portia Simpson Miller and is demanding that he withdraws them and...
It could soon become mandatory for low-performing students, particularly those in mathematics, to attend extra classes during summer holidays. Education Minister, Ruel Reid, says the intervention is one of several initiatives being contemplated to...
The Opposition Spokesman on Health Horace Dalley is claiming that a sixth person has died from the Guillian-Barre Syndrome (GBS). Dalley’s claim comes three days after he unveiled that a 78-year-old man died from GBS at the Kingston Public...
The Barbadian government says it has found no evidence to substantiate claims that a Jamaican woman and her infant son were mistreated after being refused entry by the Barbados Immigration Department on Saturday. It was reported that Sonya Samantha...
The Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) says it’s acquiring the services of an independent consultant to evaluate its protection system in the wake of last Saturday’s islandwide blackout. The disclosure was made by the company...
Some 20 Cuban teachers will be taking up positions in primary, secondary and junior high schools across the island when the new academic year begins on Monday. Cuban teachers have been serving in Jamaica since both countries signed a bilateral...
People's National Party (PNP) leadership aspirant Dr Karl Blythe has withdrawn a request to debate the incumbent Portia Simpson Miller ahead of the presidential election saying recent television interviews show she's "unwell"....
Foreign Affairs Minister Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has announced the return of businesswoman Audrey Marks as Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States. In a statement,...
The defence will on Monday begin closing arguments in the murder trial of businessman Stephen Causewell, after the case which was set to resume this past Tuesday was again postponed."The ruling is that the matter will continue," Justice Carol...
Some of the prevailing confusion about the full implications of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2015, which allows for decriminalisation of small amounts of ganja for personal use, played out a recent public function hosted by the Rural...
Published:Wednesday | August 31, 2016 | 12:50 PMKeisha Hill
The GraceKennedy Foundation awarded 26 Carlton Alexander bursaries, valued at $1.5 million, to assist employees across the GraceKennedy Group with their children's back-to-school expenses for the 2016-2017 academic year.The bursaries, named in...
Douglas K. Gordon, publisher/editor-in-chief of Ocean Style Magazine is getting ready to host the first CanEx Conference in Montego Bay today. The conference scheduled for the Montego Bay Convention Centre will delve into the benefits of and the...
Hi-Lo Food Stores Liguanea was officially opened on Monday, August 29, by Don Wehby, Group CEO of GraceKennedy Limited, who conducted a tour attended by Fayval Williams, minister of state in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service; Senator...
Published:Wednesday | August 31, 2016 | 12:00 AMOkoye Henry
Western Bureau-The Westmoreland Health Department has stepped up its state of readiness to tackle the Zika virus (ZIKV) with the creation of a response unit to be boosted by 45 additional workers, who are now in training and who are to be certified...
