More rain! - Flooding in several parishes
More rains are expected to pelt the island today, as the country continues to experience unstable weather conditions caused from a trough which is currently over Jamaica and the central Caribbean.Yesterday, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management...
Consumers boycott bread, patties - Hike in baked products takes effect
Claudette Ebanks, a middle-aged Kingston woman, who customarily purchases at least two five-pound loaves of bread per week, can no longer afford to do so, as her meagre salary will not allow her. Her predicament is based on the recent hike in baked products ...
Bob goes Bollywood
The Bob Woolmer saga has taken what could be its most bizarre twist, inspiring a Bollywood film entitled Jannat, which in English means 'Paradise'. Stranger still is that the film, set around the mysterious death of the 58-year-old coach of the Pakistan cricket team...
Free registration causes long delays at children's hospital
Some parents at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, yesterday welcomed the Government's decision to abolish health fees for children under 18 years, but some complained that the new system was impacting on the waiting period...
IAPA wants Starbroek ad ban lifted
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has joined calls by the news media to ask Guyana President, Bharrat Jagdeo, to reconsider his government's position and end its discrimination in the placement of official advertising...
Time short to apply for summer jobs
Young people have until the end of this week to apply for the National Youth Service's (NYS) Summer Programme which places them in temporary jobs across Jamaica. An original deadline had been set for May 11, earlier than in previous years....
No space for pregnant girls
Some high schools in the country are still refusing re-entry to teenage mothers, who became pregnant before completing their high school certificate, in contravention of education policies and the girls' constitutional rights...
Uncertainty over principal's death
WESTERN BUREAU: When the 65 students turned up at the Lilliput Early Childhood Education Centre in St. James, yesterday morning, they were greeted with the tragic news that their principal had died. Some children cried openly as they tried to decipher what was really unfolding.
Ganja still on Parliament's cutting board
A NEW Parliament may determine whether persons such as Rastafarians, who use ganja in small quantities, will be allowed to continue doing so without sanction. Dr. Morais Guy, who headed the joint select parliamentary committee that debated the recommendations...
'We will meet with el-Faisal, while we investigate'
The Islamic Council of Jamaica is conducting its own investigations into the accusations that led to the deportation of Abdullah el-Faisal to the island from the United Kingdom last Friday. President of the council, Mustafa Muhammad, said yesterday that...
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