Unions boycott meeting

TRADE UNION leaders stayed away from yesterday's inaugural meeting of the Tripartite Working Group looking at a flexible work week for Jamaican workers. None of the four trade unionists in the working group -- Dwight Nelson, vice-president of the...

Angry MoBay workers end protest
WESTERN BUREAU: POLICE RIOT squad yesterday kept vigil outside the gates of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Rose Hall, Montego Bay, in the wake of Thursday's fiery protest by construction workers in front of the property. However, the protesters who had...

What is Caribbean linguistics?

The following is a contribution by Hubert Devonish, the coordinator of the 13th Biennial Conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics which is set for the Mona campus of the UWI between August 16 and 19.

Flat Bridge is deteriorating

OUR CELEBRATION of Emancipation Day on Tuesday once again signal yet another landmark in our life as a nation. Indeed Emancipation Day apart from the fact that it reminded us of the time when our ancestors was granted freedom from the bondage of slavery,.

The passing of the 'Bird Lady'

MISS LISA SALMON, "The Bird Lady of Anchovy", has died at 96. After a brief illness, she passed away on Wednesday, August 2, in Montego Bay. "Miss Lis" as she was affectionately known, was born in Kingston just after the turn of the century. She was...