The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is continuing to pour cold water on the newly published Progressive Agenda of the opposition People's National Party (PNP).One day after JLP deputy leader Dr Christopher Tufton...
Andrea Thomas has only managed to purchase five textbooks from a lengthy booklist for her son, Davour Green, who will be sitting the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) next year, and from all indications she is unsure when she will be able to purchase...
AN ASSISTANT teacher in a St Catherine primary school is among five persons being sought by the police in connection with the beheading of two women in Lauriston, St Catherine, last month. The teacher's aide...
Bishop Rowan Edwards' 16-point divine plan of action for the redevelopment of Spanish Town, St Catherine, has been generating public interest since it was revealed in The Sunday Gleaner this past weekend....
WESTERN BUREAU: The Hanover Fire Department is optimistic that a recruitment drive this month will assist in identifying new firefighters to help shore up the manpower resources in that division. "Our main setback when it comes to fire is manpower...
Firefighters in Portland remain committed to their profession despite the limited resources, which is compounded by a shortage of fire units.With two fire stations in the parish - Buff Bay and Port...
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.
