Warmington bows! - Letter of apology submitted, but not signed
Everald Warmington, Minister of State for Housing and Water, has yielded to public pressure and apologised for disturbing statements he made while on the campaign trail in the run-up to the December 5 local government election. In a release late yesterday, Mr. Warmington...
Members of PSC dismissed
Governor-General, Professor Kenneth Hall, acting on the recommendation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, yesterday issued letters of dismissal to the members of the Public Service Commission (PSC). The Gleaner has learned that an application will be filed in the Supreme Court...
Brace for Olga
Tropical Storm Olga will gradually lose strength as she impacts Jamaica's shores some time this afternoon. At 7:00 p.m. yesterday, the Tropical Storm was strengthening over southen Hispaniola and is expected to continue westward closer to Jamaica, the Meteorological Office said...
Heroine dies in fire - Mom, niece perish
WESTERN BUREAU: When Verona Johnson arrived at the Sangster International Airport from The Cayman Islands on Monday night, there was no way she could know that her death was near. In fact, five hours later, her charred remains were found inside her burnt-out family home in Kilmarnock...
Azan must go - PNP - Tells Trade and Invest boss to quit over MegaMart power theft
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has called for the resignation of Chairman of Jamaica Trade and Invest (JTI), Gassan Azan, in the wake of revelations that his company, MegaMart, was the subject of investigations after electricity bypass equipment, which interrupts...
UNDP wants a cure for carbon emissions
"The world is running a serious fever, we are overloading it with carbon emissions. "This is one of the key findings of the 2007-2008 United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Report, officially released in Jamaica yesterday at the Knutsford Court Hotel in St. Andrew....
Finally, a nationality for two-month-old Lateisha
Baby Lateisha Julene Clarke, who was born on October 2 on a Cayman Airways flight bound for Jamaica, was yesterday finally registered. Her mother, Shellesha Woodstock, had been facing difficulties getting her child's birth documented, as officials in both The Cayman Islands and Jamaica...
$1.7b to build new schools
The Ministry of Education is seeking an additional $1.7 billion during the current fiscal year to construct six new schools. The new schools are to be completed in time for the start of the 2008/2009 academic year. In anticipation of the development....
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