Visa denied to daughter robs woman of dying wish
CANCER PATIENT, Cynthia Powell, will be buried in Montreal, Canada today. But family members say that she died without receiving her dying wish ­ to see her daughter Angella Rearrie, whom she had not seen in five years. Ms. Rearrie, a Jamaican...

Special CARICOM meeting opens

THE SPECIAL meeting of CARICOM's Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) opened at the Jamaica Conference Centre yesterday morning with a call from Council Chairman, Elvin Nimrod, for "a frank and critical assessment" of the region's trade...

Conch fishing back on track

CONCH FISHING is expected to resume tomorrow. Industry sources had expected a resumption last month, after the Ministry of Agriculture reached an out-of-court settlement with DYC Fishing, which had taken the Minister of Agriculture to court over his...

JBI head denies bauxite roof corrosion accusations
THE CORROSION of zinc roofs in communities close to bauxite/alumina plants is often the result of bad storage and other practices and not necessarily factors from the plants, says Parris Lyew-Ayee, General Manager of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI).