Triple the fun - Inner-city trio impresses teachers, do well in school
IMAGINE HAVING the same three faces in your class and not being able to figure out who is who.Well, that's the situation in one grade-nine class at Tivoli Comprehensive High School in Kingston, where triplets Colliette, Cadine and Colleen Bramwell are all students...
Despite political bickering, residents bask in attention
Long-suffering residents in communities throughout West Portland say they are happy the result of next week's by-election is unlikely to affect the completion of road repairs and water rehabilitation in many areas. The residents note that many of these projects ...
Banish doubt, push your canoe out to sea - Hinds
"Learn to adapt to these changing economic circumstances and be ready to change again and again." This is the message Roger Hinds, president of the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ), delivered in the parish of St Ann last Thursday.
Security costs inflate Champs budget
Increased security costs will force the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) to spend just over $5 million more this year to stage the annual GraceKennedy Boys' and Girls' Championships. This was revealed at yesterday's official launch of the champ...
EDITORIAL - Constitutional absurdities
We agree with Justice Seymour Panton about the incongruity - absurdity even - of a citizen of a Commonwealth country being eligible to sit in the Jamaican Parliament, while a Jamaican who is a citizen of a non-Commonwealth state is barred...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Call the JPS's bluff
The Editor, Sir: This is an open letter to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR).I won't wait until your public forums to make known my opinions on the JPS's submission for a 23 per cent average rate increase to the Jamaican consumers of electricity...
Queen Ifrica looks to Montego Bay
There are at least six persons crammed inside the studio at Penthouse Records as Queen Ifrica's unmistakable vocals blare from behind the glass. She is recording an introduction to her upcoming album which, she says, is a tribute to the Pitfour Nyabinghi...