UTech snubbed! - Government rejects university's bid for Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium
Delay has finally turned into denial as the Government has officially rejected the University of Technology's (UTech) ambitious plan to transform the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium into its western campus. The Government's failure to approve - before the start...
- Jamaican takes UK youth football by storm
- Top cop set to shake things up - Acting commissioner goes to bat for more stringent screening
- Officers back Ellington for Commish
- Spencer recants - Admits that reports about a shortage of bags and the reagent to store blood are true
- Gomes calls for CDA boss' resignation
- Finsac enquiry puts BOJ under the spotlight
- Lions centre makes disabled feel at home
- North Jamaica Adventists to host camp meeting
- Jamaica becomes fifth CARICOM country to join Rio Group
- Seiveright new G2K president
Issa speaks
On the weekend, hotel magnate John Issa addressed this year's batch of University of the West Indies graduates after receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The following are excerpts from his speech. This evening about 500 of you young women and men will be embarking...
- The gift that keeps on giving
- Landing requirements for a passenger travelling to Jamaica
- PM hopes to preserve Bradshaw's musical legacy
- Teachers get ICT certification
- Refreshing times come to Scott's Hall
- What keeps you connected?
- 'Repping' for Rastas - Brooks brings concerns of Nyabinghi youth to Parliament
- Closure of British High Commission
- JN video-transfer service rolled out
- Special-needs students to get online help
- Journalists to discuss code of practice
Denied - Cement waiver killed, but Samuda still suiting up for battle
CARICOM has denied Jamaica an extension of the cement duty waiver, scoring a victory for Caribbean Cement Company and its Trinidad parent, TCL Group, but last night Industry and Commerce Minister Karl Samuda vowed to fight the decision on several fronts...
- No assurances of an IMF deal in November - Golding deadline appears endangered
- CL Financial, bondholders negotiate compromise
- Shaw raises prospect of AAJ-Port Authority merger - Shippers on board with the idea
- No viable bids for small gov't assets
- NHT places commercial lots on the market
- Trinidad, Colombian cement companies to battle for market share
- Agency warns of 'dangerous drop' in energy investment
Cutting throat for millions - $2m for winner of Dragon Stout World Series domino
Total prize money of $4.35 million will be at stake when the inaugural Dragon Stout World Series of Domino makes its first pose on Friday, December 4 in St Thomas. The exciting new cut-throat style tournament, which offers a first prize of $2 million, will run...
- Waterford extend lead
- Gayle pins focus on team unity
- 'We're expecting an exciting tournament'
- Phelps comes third, misses two finals
- D-day for daCosta Cup quarter-final hopefuls
- Aussies resting Watson, Johnson for West Indies
- WI playerson the movefor Australia
- Richards seeks to lower PR
- HORSE RACING: ADL 'Blanca Nieves' Superstakes contenders. Purse: $6 million
- Holness makes proposal to leading athletes
- Lara gives Gayle full backing
- Campion, Immaculate dominate net exchanges
EDITORIAL - Coaxing value outof agriculture
IN THE early 1980s, Jamaica was not among the world's productive agricultural countries, but gross output for most crops was far better than it is today. For example, annual sugar production was more than 300,000 tonnes and the island's dairy herds...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Why not a woman as top cop?
THE EDITOR, Sir: TO GIVE Owen Ellington the top job in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) on the basis that he took control of security for the Cricket World Cup competition in Jamaica is idiotic. That shows we are not great thinkers.
- Pass new laws to help police
- One down,one to go
- Parking atone's own risk?
- Job cuts, more problems
- As privileged as a foreigner
- Common causes that stifle Jamaica
Full-figure models ready for TV debut
Pulse made history at this year's Caribbean Model Search (CMS) when it named 24-year-old University of the West Indies student Tka Briscoe as its first Full Figure Fashion model winner. The inaugural competition generated extensive interest ...
- Family Affair: Big laughter, little story - a fatal attraction
- Letterman 'extortionist' wants case dropped
- Scorpio retraces steps for 40th anniversary
- Something extra
- Many tears for Sonny Bradshaw
Tooth fillings Send off mercury vapours - But still safe for use
Amalgam filling (the dark-coloured mercury tooth filling) is hardly being used these days by dentists in Jamaica. But, Dr Tanya Perry, president of the Jamaica Dental Association, said that the decline in use of the controversial mercury filling...
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