Shrugging off last year's avalanche of criticism of his call for divine intervention in dealing with crime, National Security Minister Peter Bunting has sounded a rallying cry for churches across the island to make...
Western Bureau: Jamaican offshore company, Island Outsourcers, has planted its seeds in The Bahamas. Last Thursday, the Montego Bay, St James-based company unveiled...
Queen's continues push for excellence - The Queen's School and The Queen's Preparatory School kicked off their 60th anniversary celebrations yesterday with a thanksgiving service at the St Andrew Parish Church in Half-Way Tree.In his address,...
The Independent Commission of Investigation (INDECOM) seems set to bring charges against members of the police force involved in the fatal shooting of one of their own and the wounding of five other police personnel in a training school mishap last January....
Sounds of laughter echoed through the paediatric section of the Sir John Golding Rehabilitation Centre in Kingston on Saturday as 24 children were fêted by the Jamaica Paralympic Association...
IT APPEARS the Government is again lining up to avoid going before the Committee on Tax Measures before implementing new taxes, which, if it happens, will be a major disrespect to the people of the country....
As the world marks today's fourth anniversary of the devastating earthquake which killed around 200,000 people and left some 2.3 million homeless in Haiti, the human-rights group Amnesty International is charging very little has been done to ensure the respect, protection and fulfilment of the right to adequate housing in the country.
Ariel Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died yesterday, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma from which he never awoke. He was 85.
The Jamaica Customs Agency is experiencing great difficulty in correctly valuing products imported from some countries, as unscrupulous importers find new ways to beat the system.
It appears that most Jamaicans would turn down the chance to migrate despite the many problems facing the country, with a little more than 30 per cent saying they would pack up and leave today if given the chance.
"The end of 2013 was certainly better than the beginning," declared Minister of Finance Dr Peter Phillips, as we started an extensive review of 2013 and some prospects for 2014.
THE ISLAND Traffic Authority (ITA) which administers the provisions of the Road Traffic Act is expected to be given increased powers to revoke the driver's licences of persons who accumulate a significant number of demerit points.
THE EXCELSIOR Community College (ECC), in Kingston, is now preparing to train between 350 to 500 students per year to take up jobs in the logistics and shipping industry.
Jamaica's tax authority is to intensify its efforts to secure greater compliance from taxpayers, warning yesterday that the full weight of the law will be brought against persons who breach the Revenue Administration Act.
Senior police investigators from the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) have launched a probe into reports of a series of activities which have been linked to a particular case that is currently before the Court.
A significant jump in the number of persons enumerated over the last two years have signalled that electoral activities are rapidly intensifying as the nation approaches the halfway mark in the tenure of the People's...
The use of an electronic device while driving, including cellular phones, is expected to be outlawed by the end of the legislative year in March.Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, Dr Morais Guy, said a new road...
The police are heaping praise on Dennis Mutler, driver of the tanker full of petrol that exploded near to an upscale residential and school community yesterday evening...
POINTING TO the creation of regional health authorities (RHA) as an example of public-sector rationalisation that is still bedevilled by problems, the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has urged the Government to ensure...
NEWLY APPOINTED director general respon-sible for public sector transformation and modernisation (PSTM), Veniece Pottinger-Scott, is being told that it is going...
Jamaica Customs authorities have revealed that in the last 13 months, tests conducted at the nation's ports have confirmed the presence of higher-than-normal levels of radiation in two shipments from Japan. The most recent...
One of Digicel's telecommunications official expressed surprise yesterday under cross-examination at the Vybz Kartel murder trial that one of the two computer discs which contain call and text-message records has gone missing...
