The prosecution is to call its final witness today at the murder trial of entertainer Vybz Kartel. Defence lawyers in the case say they will be making no-case submissions when the prosecution closes its...
H-Y-P-O-G-E-U-S-I-A!That's the word 12-year-old Tajaun Gibbison spelt correctly to win the 2014 Gleaner's Children's Own Spelling Bee championship.Hypogeusia, which means a reduced ability to taste things, did not prove to be a challenge for the young...
GUESTS OF a parliamentary committee were made to endure a one-hour wait at Gordon House yesterday because the three-member quorum required for the start...
WESTERN BUREAU: THE COMMUNITY of Albion in St James got an opportunity to increase its learning capabilities, with the opening of a new computer resource centre at the Social Development Commission office in the community last Friday....
THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has welcomed the first wastewater treatment plant in the coffee industry, which was constructed at the Mavis Bank Coffee factory recently.Managing director at the factory,...
Western Bureau:One week after a tourist was struck fatally by an unlicensed jet ski, the various government ministries and regulatory agencies are yet to advise of any regulatory changes or new enforcement measures to...
Only dregs will remain in the Capital Development Fund, made up of proceeds from the bauxite levy, after March 31.This follows the approval of the House of Representatives yesterday to withdraw up to $1.54 billion from the fund, mainly for budgetary...
State minister in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment Damion Crawford has encouraged young persons to get rid of the bling culture, as it is an obstacle to educational achievement and obtaining high-end jobs.Crawford, who was delivering the...
OPPOSITION spokesman on Finance Audley Shaw on Monday cautioned that continued sluggish economic growth will lead to failed International Monetary Fund (IMF) tests.At the same time, Shaw warned that the local...
White Hall, St Thomas:Teacher of murdered eight-year-old, Celeena Headman, a distraught Itena Williams, is urging parents in White Hall, St Thomas, to send their children to school.Williams, who stressed that provisions have...
CABINET is yet to consider a motion passed by the House of Represen-tatives for the renaming of the Throne Speech as the People's Speech.Leader of Government Business Phillip Paulwell said yesterday that the Cabinet would deal with the matter in time...
The investigating officer in the Vybz Kartel murder case testified yesterday that on August 22, 2011, when he went to Kartel's Havendale house, he smelled a strong disinfectant "like Fabuloso".
CONTROVERSIAL SOUTH West St Catherine Member of Parliament Everald Warmington has ripped into the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) yet again, declaring it is being run by "another mental case"...
CO-CHAIR of the Energy Monitoring Committee (EMC), Dr Carlton Davis, said yesterday he was hoping Phillip Paulwell, the energy minister, would provide answers to some critical issues relating to the 360-megawatt power...
North Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has joined the fight to reduce the stigma against children with mental-health issues after receiving a cheque in the amount of J$150,000 yesterday. The cheque was presented by the RBC Royal Bank through...
A pre-feasibility study on the prospects for hydropower generation from five of Jamaica's rivers has indicated the country could nearly double the existing hydropower capacity if investors tap four of those...
With an at least two-month delay in the presentation of answers to questions about the prime minister's travels, the Opposition says it has no faith that Portia Simpson Miller is willing to speak on the issue...
As the debate over the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) bill intensifies, Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) President, Dr Mark Nicely, is alleging that the proposed legislation was deliberately crafted to get rid of the powerful teachers' union.Nicely...
Opposition Finance Spokesman Audley Shaw yesterday dismissed the views on bank fees put forward by former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, under whose administration he served as finance minister....
A member of the clergy has issued a warning to the country to protect its own interests when negotiating with foreigners.Making reference to the recent furore over Jamaica's place in the regional trading bloc...
Yallahs, St Thomas: An eight-year-old girl was found murdered in Top Hill, St Thomas, yesterday afternoon. The child has been identified as Celena Edmond, a student of White Hall Primary School in the parish....
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness yesterday came down on the side of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade A.J. Nicholson, who has argued that Jamaica must be wary of the United States in pursuing a marijuana agenda...
A new day beckons for Jamaica as, for the first time at last, fiscal rules are to be implemented to prevent governments from practising 'run-wid-it' economics.Being forced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to take the bitter medicine that we have...
