Cash-strapped - Gov't struggles to pay suppliers
The cash crunch facing the Government is starting to hurt businesses that supply goods and services to state entities. Over the last three months, several businesses have not been paid and the operators have been unsuccessful in their efforts to get a timeline...
Mother perishes in failed bid to rescue drowning son
Milton Morrison believes it was nothing short of a mother's dying devotion for her child that prompted his girlfriend's brave attempt to save her son from drowning. Although Donnette Fowler would lose her life in an attempt to save seven-year-old Jauntae Morrison...
NW Clarendon without MP until Sept
The constituents of North West Clarendon will be without a member of parliament for the next six weeks as Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Hibbert reserved his decision yesterday until early September. The judge is to decide whether the seat should go ...
No job cuts - IMF terms won't affect public-sector staffing - PM
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has moved to allay the fears of union leaders that the resumption of a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will result in massive job cuts. Golding met with the union leaders yesterday as part ...
IMF in island
Officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are now in the island for extensive discussions which could pave the way for Jamaica to resume a borrowing relationship with the fund. The IMF team arrived yesterday afternoon and immediately moved...
Kingston port worker crushed to death
Operations at the Kingston Container Terminal (KCT) were halted for several hours yesterday after a worker was crushed by a straddle carrier. Dead is Trevor Fennel, 46-year-old stevedore co-ordinator of Yallahs, St Thomas, who was working on the terminal...
'Speed up building approvals'
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and Finance Minister Audley Shaw have expressed displeasure at the pace at which building approvals are being granted by the parish councils.Golding yesterday stopped just short of saying the parish councils were standing in the way of development...
'Bungles' witnesses rewarded - attorney
The corruption case against Superintendent Harry 'Bungles' Daley will continue in the Corporate Area Resident Magis-trate's Court today with Detective Inspector of Police Paul Thomas expected to take the witness stand. The lawman did not show up after he was called...
Man waits three years for appeal
Judges of the Court of Appeal have frowned on the tardiness in the justice system which led to a 56-year-old man waiting in prison for three years before his appeal was heard yesterday.Carl Williams, the appellate, wept when he heard the Court of Appeal ...
Cop denies tear-gassing wards
The policeman who allegedly threw tear gas into a dorm at the Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Ann has denied hurling the object inside the building which caught fire, killing seven wards in May...
GG urges nurses to stay in Jamaica
Governor General Sir Patrick Allen is pleading with the island's nurses not to be too quick to leave Jamaica at this time. "Jamaican nurses are known worldwide to be the best and other countries, particularly in North America, do not hesitate to recruit...
Further restrictions for the Corporate Area water supply
National Water Commission (NWC) customers served by the Hermitage/ Constant Spring water supply system in the Corporate Area have been hit with further restrictions as a result of worsening drought conditions.The new restrictions took effect...
Experts to be featured at food-safety conference
Jamaica's fourth International Conference on Food Safety, hosted by the Food Hygiene Bureau, is scheduled to get under way tomorrow and end on Friday. The conference, to be held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in St Andrew, will feature international and...