The assets of Michael Misick, the former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, have been frozen worldwide. Documents obtained by The SUN revealed that on June 23, 2011, Chief Justice His Lordship Gordon Ward made the order to freeze all of Misick's...
HAMILTON, Bermuda, (CMC)Bermuda's lawmakers have doubled fines for illegal fishing to US$50,000 in an effort to protect the North Atlantic island's dwindling fish stocks.The House of Assembly last Friday passed amendments to the Fisheries Act...
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding is staying away from the controversial Shanique Myrie matter - at least for the time being.Speaking to Barbados' Sunday Sun on Friday during a breakat the CARICOM Heads of Government Summit in St Kitts, Golding said his...
A passion, along with determination, was the main contributor which pushed Everald Campbell for 38 years as an educator.Campbell was one of five retired teachers honoured during a function hosted by the St Anne's High School in Kingston last Friday....
Students of Obistan Kinder Prep School on Washington Boulevard in St Andrew were on Thursday hailed for their outstanding performance in this year's Grade Six Assessment Test (GSAT). Speaking at the school's graduation exercise, Minister Ingrid Butterfield...
HIS ADVENTURES in the murky waters of the local fisheries industry have been well reported since his murder last week Saturday. However, there is nothing unclear about Roderick 'Bunny' Francis impact as hundreds turned out to support his family and show...
Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force Anti Corruption Branch (ACB), Assistant Commissioner of Police Justin Felice, yesterday described as "disappointing" the latest incident in which a high-ranking member of the force ...
There is widespread public support for the classification of the island's two major political parties as the "gangs of Gordon House". Nine in every 10 Jamaicans agree that the two major political parties, the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party...
"Dem give him an inch and him take a mile," said a resident of Coleyville Avenue in St Andrew yesterday. The statement vividly captures the basis upon which the multimillion-dollar structure located at 2 Coleyville Avenue was demolished...
WESTERN BUREAU: With 17-year-old Khajeel Mais' family still mourning his death at the hands of a BMW X5 driver who shot him last Friday night, the youngster's mentor, attorney-at-law Bert Samuels, is blaming...
THE CONTROVERSY-PLAGUED infrastructure repair project, dubbedthe Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), has been accepted by a majority of Jamaicans as a good programme for the country....
Thirty-one-year-old Clara Graham, who was the only female graduate among the Year One welding class run by Operation Friendship, at the school-leaving ceremony on Thursday June 30, ...
Community transformation in a holistic, sustainable way is key to achieving the overall objective of stemming crime across Jamaica, believe organisations such as the Peace Management Initiative (PMI) and the...
Dr Christopher Charles Tufton, who on Wednesday took office as minister of industry, investment and commerce, says he enjoyed his four-year tenure as minister of agriculture and fisheries, where he earned a reputation as a hard worker and a man committed to Jamaican farmers.
Bruised after being battered by public opinion, and eventually booted from the Bruce Golding-led Cabinet, a defiant Dorothy Lightbourne says her former boss bowed to public pressure when he stripped her of the justice minister and attorney general portfolios last week.
People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller continues to lead Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Bruce Golding as the person Jamaicans believe would do a better job as prime minister of Jamaica.
VETERAN politician, Robert Pickersgill, is not willing to languish in the apprehension gripping some of his colleagues in the People's National Party (PNP) that the principles of the party have been severely watered down in recent years.
PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has gained ground on Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller in the latest check on the favourability and approval ratings of the leaders of the two major political parties.
Hundreds of early childhood institutions across Jamaica did not undergo the required fire and health inspections in the 2009-2010 financial year because of budgetary constraints at the public health and fire departments.
WESTERN BUREAU:Stakeholders in Hanover have rejected concerns that the parish is not adequately prepared for the job opportunities that will be created by the proposed US$500-million expansion of the Fiesta Hotel, located at Point in the parish.
WESTERN BUREAU:After lying in the shadows of the more established local resort areas for decades, the parish of St Elizabeth is now moving to establish itself as the agro-ecotourism capital of the Caribbean.
Some 1,000 jobs are to become available at a prominent Hanover hotel in the near future; do you believe residents of this parish are sufficiently equipped to fill job vacancies in the hospitality sector?
WESTERN BUREAU:His passion is executed through his love for music and entertainment and 17-year-old Chevaughn James, who goes by DJ Drumline, marches to the beat of his own drum and drive to excel in music.
