School delayed - 'Dean', election extend summer vacation in Jamaica
Students across the island have received an extended summer holiday as the Ministry of Education and Youth yesterday announced that the new school year will begin September 10. School was scheduled to resume on September 3, but according to the ministry, the reopening...
Cabinet meets on new election date
The Cabinet held an emergency meeting late last night to consider a recommendation from the Electoral Commission that the date for the general election be postponed from August 27 to September 3 and that members of the security forces go to the polls...
Looting spurred state of emergency - PM
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has hit back at her critics who charge that her decision to proclaim a state of public emergency was done without consultation with the Leader of the Opposition. In a statement to the media yesterday, the Prime Ministersaid contrary...
'Pegasus firefighters arrived late'
FireFighters who responded to a potentially dangerous fire at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, were yesterday accused of arriving more than 45 minutes late at the site of the 18-floor hotel. "I arrived there at the start of the fire minutes to 12 (noon) and fire trucks...
Debating dual citizenship
There is much debate in political circles about whether candidates with dual citizenship should be allowed to sit in Gordon House if they are successful in the coming general election. What the law says. Section 41 (2) of the Jamaica Constitution...
Grounded and grumpy - Flight foul-up landing Air Jamaica in trouble
There were chaotic scenes at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston yesterday as hundreds of passengers who were stranded on the island as a result of Hurricane Dean tried to get on a flight to their respective destinations....
Jamaica still on vacation roster
WESTERN BUREAU: Despite the passage of Hurricane Dean and the imposition of a state of emergency, visitors are still determined to travel to Jamaica for their vacation. Complementing the 14,000 guests who braved the dangerous storm and remained...
Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) back on most routes
The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) said buses have resumed operations on all routes except those scheduled to function in the Border and Glengoffe areas of St. Andrew and St. Catherine, respectively...
Pedro Cays residents safe, still stubborn
Twenty residents who made desperate last-minute calls to be rescued from the Pedro Cays early Sunday morning, before the passage of Hurricane Dean, are safe and sound. The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) on Monday visited the cays...
Four killed in St Catherine
THERE WAS a spate of homicides in the St. Catherine North Police Division over the past two days, three of them taking place yesterday. Constable Kanika Clarke said a double murder took place in Thompson Pen at 1:00 a.m. Terrence Powell and his common-law wife, Patricia Blake...
Mega supermarket flood
Hurricane Dean struck indirectly, yesterday at MegaMart located at 29 Upper Waterloo Road, St. Andrew, when water from the Sandy Gully swelled and overflowed the parking lot, covering at least three cars. Several onlookers had converged at the rear of the compound....
Neita hailed as a great friend and father
'Mr. Personality' is what Melanie Neita, daughter of the late Clifton Neita, dubbed her dad when she was around the age of four or five. This is the name she gave to the man she said "walked, talked, smiled and loved personality". This was the innocent view of a child based on a 1950s song....
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