Calamity! - Financial director breaks down over lost funds
Faced with death threats against his children, a director of Money Express, a local financial entity with 179 members, called an emergency meeting yesterday to explain how millions of their dollars had been lost. During his address to the audience of about 60 persons...
Blackouts could occur again - JPS
It could happen again. That's the word coming from officials at the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) regarding Wednesday's all-island blackout - the nation's third in less than two years. Harold Nembhard, vice-president of power generation at JPS, told journalists yesterday...
Air Jamaica slapped for hash oil find
The United States Department of Homeland Security is probing the circumstances under which a quantity of hash oil found its way into luggage, which arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, aboard an Air Jamaica flight on Wednesday. While the local narcotics police...
'No more JPS monopoly'
An energy specialist attached to the University of Technology has recommended that the Government allow other players to provide electricity service to Jamaicans. Dr. Paul Campbell, research coordinator in the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at the University of Technology...
Jamaica Exporters' Association (JEA) blames former government for blackout
The head of the Jamaica Exporters' Association (JEA) is blaming the former government's failure to decide on a energy source for the all-island blackout that affected the island Wednesday night. JEA president, Marjorie Kennedy, told The Gleaner that the blackout was unfortunate...
Housing Ministry to spend millions on Flankers
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, says the Government is committed to spending more than $250 million on the formalisation and improvement of the community of Flankers in St. James. Dr. Chang said this would be the start of a plan to improve...
Gun find irks Lakes Pen residents
Spanish Town, St. Catherine: The seizure of a sixth gun by the St. Catherine South police has caused some disturbance in the Lakes Pen community in the parish as residents have questioned the authorities' account of how the weapon was recovered....
Man gets 10 years for kidnapping
A man who, along with two female teenagers, masterminded the kidnapping of two female life insurance agents and robbed them of their motor cars, credit cards and other items, was yesterday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment....
Clear the air, Davies tells Shaw
Opposition spokesman on Finance, Dr.Omar Davies, said Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, has yet to clarify his position o investment schemes. In a news release, yesterday, Dr. Davies said that when the former administration initiated legal proceedings...
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