Popular Mandeville businessman/videographer Chris Gooden died in a motor-vehicle accident early yesterday morning along the Winston Jones Highway near Greenvale in Mandeville, Manchester. According to reports, Gooden was returning from a wedding...
More than a century since the Scout Movement landed in Jamaica, the leaders of the age-old organisation have managed to maintain its momentum amid economic challenges and changes in popular culture. However, while these are...
May Pen to Spanish Town route being explored With the reopening of the Bog Walk gorge road in St Catherine, the Ministry of Transport and Works yesterday said the train service between Linstead and Spanish Town will be scaled down to one trip daily...
Education Minister Andrew Holness says the Government will be looking at developing an electronic waste (e-waste) policy and creating an industry to deal with the management and recycling of this refuse....
Opposition spokesman on Justice, Senator Mark Golding, has declared that recent suggestions by Justice Minister Delroy Chuck for cameras to be introduced in the island's courtrooms cannot be a priority at this stage when the entire justice system is beset by a myriad of problems....
Two men who forcibly entered properties belonging to separate licensed firearm holders were shot and killed yesterday, leading to suggestions that counselling should be offered as a matter of course for shooters in such cases....
The mother of an 11-month-old girl who died in a fire in Salem, near Runaway Bay in St Ann, on Saturday night remained in police custody Sunday afternoon....
Superintendent Merrick Watson is the new chairman of the Police Officers' Association.Watson was elected to replace Superintendent Michael James who did not seek re-election when the police officers met for their annual general meeting last week...
Two weeks before the start of the new school year, only half the students who were placed in the Alternative Secondary Transitional Education Programme (ASTEP) have shown up for registration at the various centres to which they have been assigned....
LIKE MOSES who came down from Mount Sinai with two tablets containing the 10 Commandments and the laws to save Israel, Bishop Rowan Edwards says he has been called by God and given a divine 16-point plan of action to rescue afflicted Spanish Town from the clutches of Hell.
Vincent Commock makes no bones about being extremely talented. He started Vin's Mechanical and Electrical Repairs in 1980 after being in the field since 1959.
A new environment battle is brewing atop Long Mountain as the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET), with concerned residents in its corner, squares off against a housing development being proposed by the government-owned Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ).
The free-living amoebae (FLA) belongs to Acanthamoeba and Sappinia genera as well as Balamuthia mandrillaris and Naegleria fowleri species, occurring worldwide and can potentially cause infections in humans and other animals.
Three quarters have passed without a statement being issued by either the Government of Jamaica (GOJ), or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the performance of the Jamaican economy in any of these quarters in respect of the targets in the...
One of Spanish Town's major problems is having a prison in the heart of the city, Bishop Rohan Edward believes, adding that this is having a psychological impact on the city.
FORMER GENERAL secretary of the People's National Party (PNP), Maxine Henry-Wilson, has urged her party not to be caught up with merely returning to power. She said the party must effectively prepare itself for governance, and present Jamaica with the best policy options possible for development.
There has been a slight decline in Jamaica's CSEC performance this year. At a press conference yesterday, Education Minister Andrew Holness said there had been close to a two per cent decline in results.
Caribbean nationals, including Jamaicans who are illegal immigrants living in the United States (US), are to benefit from a new immigration policy by the Obama administration which this week said it will allow those facing deportation the chance to remain in the country and apply for work permits.
The start of the prestigious IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Daegu, South Korea, is a week away, but Jamaica's flag is already flying high on the Asian continent.
Located just over 30 minutes from Montego Bay, St James, is the quaint community of Adelphi, which has a history rooted in the sugar and slavery industries of the late 1700s to 1800s.
Kay Osborne, general manager of Television Jamaica, says there is a "pending revolution" in Jamaica over high utility bills. Osborne, who was speaking at the Jamaica Public Service and Partners Credit Union annual awards luncheon for GSAT and GNAT students Thursday, said Jamaicans care deeply about their inability to pay high utility bills.
Young Chruemar Dent has taken on the bold and mammoth task of changing the way entertainment events are executed in Montego Bay through his company Musketeer Entertainment (MuskENT) - a challenge he simply smiles at.
