Financial Secretary Dr Wesley Hughes has contradicted a statement from junior finance minister Arthur Williams that Jamaica has passed its first International Monetary Fund (IMF) test. Hughes, writing in this newspaper...
Acting Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington is expected to get a preliminary report today on the fatal shooting of Everton Parchment last Saturday night. The 32-year-old Parchment, of an Arnett Gardens, Kingston 12, address, was killed along Spanish...
TRANSPORT AND WORKS Minister Mike Henry has mandated director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica (MAJ), Rear Admiral Peter Brady, to lead a probe into the boat incident that resulted in two deaths and injury to more than 20 other people near...
The Media Association Jamaica (MAJ) is in the dark about a proposal being considered by the Government to allow Chinese entities to start operating a radio and television station locally.Almost one week after Information Minister Daryl Vaz made...
THE DECISION by parliamentarians to retain the death penalty is strangling the Charter of Rights, which continues to languish on the parliamentary agenda. The Government had earmarked February 24 for the passage...
The troubles facing popular dancehall star Bounty Killer are mounting. Less than one week after the United States Embassy in St Andrew indicated that he was among five Jamaican entertainers to have their visas revoked...
Isiah Parnell, the United States chargé d'affaires to Jamaica, is expressing confidence that the ties that bind Kingston and Washington will remain strong despite the current impasse over the request for the extradition of west Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke...
Passengers on two flights experienced a slight delay while other persons at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) were evacuated after a fire scare yesterday afternoon."About 1:44, the fire alarm went off and the emergency team responded...
Different accounts are emerging about what took place on the ill-fated boat ride that left two people dead on the weekend. While the captain of the boat is claiming that it...
WESTERN BUREAU:THE ST James police confirmed yesterday that it has identified and located three of the 32 residents whose names appeared on a hit list taken off the body of a wanted man on Good Friday....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP): A Dubai appeals court on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant. The pair landed in court after an Emirati woman complained about the public kiss...
THE UNITED States Agency for International Development (USAID) has made a donation of US$2,000 (J$180,000) to the Rotary Race to Literacy Drive in order to buy locally produced books."The book drive is an excellent example of what public-private...
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Antigua's Governor General Dame Louise Lake-Tack has signed the order revoking the knighthood of alleged fraudster R. Allen Stanford....
Churchgoers attending Easter Sunday Mass at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday reaffirmed their faith in Catholicism despite the latest round of child sex abuse that has jolted church officials worldwide....
LOS ANGELES (AP): A STRONG earthquake south of the United States-Mexico border yesterday swayed high-rises in downtown Los Angeles and San Diego and was felt across Southern California and Arizona...
THE GOLD Musgrave Medal awarded to renowned Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite in 2006 has been stolen from his New York home in the United States, one of thousands of items of which he says he has been robbed....
Local dancehall stars Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Mavado and Aidonia, as well as selector Ricky Trooper, are set to lose millions of dollars in earnings based on United States decision to revoke their visas.
THE LONG-promised national building code is now a little closer to reality. Months after a major earthquake ravaged Haiti and forced the issue of the quality of buildings in Jamaica back on the front burner the Cabinet has issued instruction for the drafting of legislation to establish a national building control framework for the island.
At the end of March, weeks before the winter tourist season officially ends in April, Jamaica showed an increase of 12.7 per cent or 20,850 visitors over last year's figures, preliminary airport arrivals revealed.
THE TOWER Street Adult Correctional Centre, Kingston, is a very busy place at mid-morning last Wednesday. It is visiting day and in the parking lot are grim faces, bearing packages designed to bring cheer to someone on the other side of the towering, forbidding red brick wall.
A NUMBER of local pastors and prophets see the hand of God behind the severe drought conditions gripping the island since last year. The clergymen argue that the disaster is God's chastening rod for backsliding Jamaica.
THE MINISTRY of Health has launched an investigation into an outbreak of gastroenteritis at a primary school in rural Jamaica to determine if it was spawned by the trucking of bacteria-laced water to the institution.The...
Police investigators have decided to use the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) to obtain evidence in the United Kingdom (UK) to bolster their case against former Junior Minister Joseph Hibbert.
Western Bureau:After losing several personal items and a place to rest, members of the Island Special Constabulary Force (ISCF) branch in Montego Bay will have to find another home following a massive fire at the Barnett Street...
