Fury at Fiesta - Workers set vehicles ablaze in hotel protest
WESTERN BUREAU: Tempers flared, fires raged and thick, black smoke which billowed hundreds of feet high could be seen for miles as the Fiesta Hotel construction site at Point, Hanover, descended into anarchy yesterday.That was what the small district of Point resembled...
Big-hearted volunteers give kids a better chance
After waking up, two-year-old Danieldid not want to stay in bed. His cries echoed through the room of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Papine, St. Andrew. He could not be kept down. Daniel leapt out of bed and raced...
UWI certifies public sector employees
Some 300 public sector employees were yesterday presented with certificates of achievements from the University of the West Indies' (UWI) School of Continuing Studies.The graduates participated in training which began last July and lasted between 10 and 12 weeks...
$14b more in budget spending
The Government has increased its spending in the 2006/2007 Budget by $14 billion as reflected in the first supplementary estimates of expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday. The estimates were tabled by the Minister of State...
Montego Bay airport transport operators cry foul
WESTERN BUREAU: Persons arriving at the Sangsters International Airport in Montego Bay experienced temporary delays yesterday, as members of the Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) and the Jamaica Cooperative Automobile ...
Wife faces murder charge
WESTERN BUREAU: A woman was taken into custody by the Green Island police in Hanover yesterday morning following the death of her husband, who died from machete wounds.Facing a charge of murder is 31-year-old Charmane...
Government of Jamaica promises more school spaces
The Government is proposing to provide 16,990 school spaces by the end of the year with 3,500 of these to be created for Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students in Region Six by September. Maxine Henry-Wilson, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture...
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