'Ready for the world' - Prime Minister of Jamaica hails preparations for cricket tournament
Jamaica is ready for the world, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said last night as she hailed preparations for the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC), where the first ball will be bowled this morning, when the West Indies play Kenya in a warm-up match...
Nation urged to 'bat for peace'
Tomorrow will be celebrated as Peace Day by Peace and Love in Society (PALS), in collaboration with the Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA), and Jamaicans have been urged to make a change in the society by getting involved in its activities if they want...
Police transfers take effect today
The reassignments in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) announced by Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas on February 20, take effect today. Thirty-six senior members of the officer corps were reassigned last month in a major re-shuffle designed to...
Sewage used to put out gas station fire
St. Catherine: Onlookers praised a group of cesspool workers who used the contents in their truck to extinguish a massive fire at a gas station along Constant Spring Road, yesterday. At about 9:00 a.m., a pump at the Shell service station at 211 Constant Spring Road...
Items banned from cricket venues
The International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup (CWC) starts today with a series of warm-up matches and will continue until April 28 when the finals take place in Bridgetown, Barbados.Organisers have said that interest in this, the biggest...
Sexy Sabina struts on stage
Twenty-six months and US$25 million later, Sabina Park is strutting on to cricket's classiest catwalk with a feather in its cap - and she's never looked better.Work on the Kingston stadium is winding down for cricket's showpiece event, the World Cup,...
On her way to Broadway
Patricia McCray was only a fourth-form student in high school when she became pregnant with her first child."I was only 17 years old, but the father of the baby was seven years older than me," she said. He was employed and so could fulfil her needs....
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