UNITED NATIONS (AP): Rescuers who heard scratching sounds pulled a security guard from the United Nations headquarters building that collapsed in the Haiti earthquake, "a small miracle" as 36 UN personnel...
Jill Lear has decorated bedrooms waiting for the nine-year-old boy and girl she calls her son and daughter even though she hasn't brought them home from Haiti.
PARIS (AP):France's Finance Minister says she has asked creditors of earthquake-ravaged Haiti to speed up plans to cancel its debt.Christine Lagarde says she "made contact with all Paris Club members so we accelerate the cancellation of the government...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Ape): Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are in desperate need of drinking water because of an earthquake-damaged municipal pipeline and truck drivers either unable or unwilling to deliver their cargo."Many drivers are afraid of...
WASHINGTON (Ape):President Barack Obama said yesterday that America "stands united" with the Haitian people as he thanked two former presidents for agreeing to help raise billions of dollars to help rebuild the country after this week's devastating...
Jamaica's emergency czar believes reconstructing Haiti will take more than picking up the pieces and putting the devastated country back together again.Ronald Jackson, director general...
WESTERN BUREAU: A policeman wept bitterly after realising he had fatally shot one of his colleagues in the busy downtown area of Montego Bay yesterday.
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: Roylan Barrett, the 71-year-old custos of Tre-lawny, died on Friday from renal failure. He died in Kingston where he was taken for medical care.
THE COURT of Appeal on Thursday reserved its decision in the appeal brought by former Matthews Lane strongman Donald 'Zekes' Phipps after hearing legal arguments that his constitutional rights were breached during his...
HEAD OF the Earthquake Unit and research fellow at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr Lyndon Brown, has revealed that Jamaica is not connected to the tsunami warning system for the Caribbean.
Parliament's Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) this week took aim at the Financial Services Commission (FSC) for a proposal the regulatory body made that might affect insurance costs.
AS THE Caribbean Community (CARICOM) mobilises regional relief efforts to aid its Haitian neighbours, senior officials from Jamaica echoed fears of not finding any more survivors...
IN THE wake of Tuesday's catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, a number of companies, non-governmental organisations and groups, along with individuals, have been making contributions to the relief effort.
CLEARLY SHAKEN by the horrific spectacle of the devastation meted out to Haiti earlier this week, Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has rendered a heartfelt appeal for the women, the young, the elderly and the...
THE PARENT company of the Jamaican firm Red Stripe has shipped 45,000 pounds of food and emergency supplies to Haiti.This is part of a major relief effort launched by Diageo through its temporary Spirit of the Americas Fund and the Diageo's Giving for...
Bloomberg: THE MAGNITUDE 7.0 earthquake that occurred in Haiti may increase the likelihood of a future quake in Jamaica, according to seismologists who study geologic risk.
ANOTHER 35 Jamaicans stranded in Haiti are to return home today by special airlift.Information Minister, Daryl Vaz, said yesterday that the Jamaicans would return on a special Air Jamaica flight that was scheduled to depart Jamaica this morning with...
THE NATIONAL Leadership Prayer Breakfast (NLPB) committee has pledged to provide support to affected persons in Haiti through its charity funds from the Prayer Breakfast this year.
As hapless Haiti continues to reel from the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake which has claimed an estimated thousands of lives and flattened infrastructure, a question that comes readily to mind is: what is it about January and the region ...
THE ISLAND recorded a marginal decline in the number of road fatalities last year but traffic accidents still continued to eat up a large chunk of the money allocated to the health sector.Data released yesterday by the National Road Safety Council...
AP:Scammers emerge as predictably as earthquake aftershocks following natural disasters, making it imperative for consumers to be wary of unsolicited appeals to aid victims in Haiti. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and security experts warned...
