Rodney Chin's digital recordings continued to be played during the Cuban light-bulb trial yesterday.In one recording, made in February 2008, Spencer says that what Chin...
The Ministry of Health will have $33.2 billion to spend in the new fiscal year, up from the $28.6 billion it was given in 2009-2010. However, medical personnel, hospital administrators and patients all seem to agree that this was far from what was needed ...
MORE RESOURCES to improve the chronic space shortage in primary and secondary schools and the allocation of more funds to shore up the Ministry of Education's drive to eliminate illiteracy in schools form part...
WESTERN BUREAU:Stakeholders in the town of Lucea in Hanover will have to rethink their strategy for a sewage-treatment plant, as there are no plans by the National Water Commission to undertake any such construction....
Jamaican authorities have identified three of the 62 Haitians who reached local shores on Monday as prisoners who escaped when the National Penitentiary in which they...
THE USUAL festivity associated with the ceremonial opening of Parliament might be diminished today as crowds have been advised to stay away from the immediate vicinity of Gordon House...
TWO CRITICAL pieces of legislation, arguably the most far-reaching of the measures presented for passage during the just-concluded parliamentary year...
Some primary school principals appeared confident their students were prepared for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which starts today.In addition to the usual extra classes, some principals have...
Athletes have already made the 100th staging of the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships a memorable one...
Finance Minister Audley Shaw will today indicate how much money the Government plans to spend for the 2010-2011 fiscal year when he tables in Parliament the estimates of expenditure...
Twenty-three recordings of conversations between former junior minister Kern Spencer and star witness Rodney Chin were played yesterday at the Half-Way Tree Courthouse, after Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey ruled...
Sixty-two Haitians, including six children, who fled their earthquake-ravaged homeland, landed in two groups in Portland yesterday, after battling five days of rugged conditions on the sea....
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says the slow response to the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) should have been expected because it was poorly planned and implemented. PNP Spokesperson on Youth, Lisa Hanna, charged that from the outset...
Calls of "juice, juice" and "ba-ba-ba-banana chips" were welcomed by passengers travelling on the Jamaica Urban Transit Company No.500 bus steadily making its way to the Half-Way Tree (HWT) terminal.
As the country's job opportunities become more and more limited, acting director for the regional programme services department at the HEART Trust/NTA, Cynthis Dewdney, says the Career Advancement Programme (CAP) introduced...
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey will today determine which parts of alleged recordings between Rodney Chin and Kern Spencer should be admitted to evidence in the trial of Spencer and co-defendant Coleen Wright...
A number of the Corporate Area's leading hotels reported increases in bookings heading into the start of the 100th staging of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Athletic Championships at the National Stadium....
The Government has scaled back its ambitious plan to add 200 new buses to the fleet of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC).Instead, 103 new buses will be imported starting next month, with three of the buses offering specialised service to members...
Commuters using the state-run bus service provided by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be paying up to 60 per cent more for a ride come April 1. Transport Minister Mike Henry announced the long-anticipated increases...
Persons who are not yet registered have just a week to become eligible for the new voters' list. Director of Elections Orette Fisher said while persons are receptive of the registration process to meet the March 31 deadline...
Weeks after a rank-and-file policeman made a public appeal for a closed-circuit television (CCTV) to be installed in the armoury at the Elletson Road Police Station, the national security ministry says work was well under way to put in place such a...
Young scientists from western Jamaica showed off several innovative exhibits during the Western leg of the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) Science & Technology Expo, held recently at the West Jamaica Conference Centre of Seventh-day...
Some 1,600 gallons of water vanished from two tanks at St Andrew Primary School over the weekend, although the Ministry of Education provides the school with round-the-clock watchmen....
