TYRONE'S WATCH - Guava Gap residents trash garbage agency
What's not working: Residents in Guava Gap, rural St Andrew, are complaining about a decade-long garbage disposal problem, lamenting that the collection trucks rarely visit the community. Hence, the citizens say they are forced to dump waste into nearby bushes.
✙ Caretaker makes Denbigh Cemetery home sweet home
By the sweat of your brow, you will eat bread' is the philosophy Stanhope Williamson uses to get him through the difficult days. Williamson has been a caretaker for the Denbigh Cemetery in May Pen, Clarendon, for the past 22 years. In fact, he not only works there...
Murder accused to appear in court today
A 44-year-old mason, James Brown, of St Margaret's Bay, Portland, who was charged on Friday with the murder of the mother of his four children, is to appear in the Resident Magistrate's court in Buff Bay, this afternoon. The man, who was on the run, was arrested by detectives...
Coalition formed to fight in the Golden Triangle
The citizens of the Golden Triangle and surrounding areas have declared war on creeping commercialisation and flawed urban planning in what they have labelled one of Kingston's oldest and most prestigious residential districts. The residents have, as a result...
Students, counsellors host school-leavers' event
Fifth and sixth-form students from five parishes in western Jamaica will gather on February 27 with their guidance counsellors for a special one-day school-leavers' event to be held at the West Jamaica Conference Centre, Mt Salem, in Montego Bay, St James...
Alleged rapist finally remanded
Twenty-eight-year-old Lamar Golding - a taxi operator, of Richmond Hill in Portland, is to return to court on February 18 to answer to a series of carnal abuse and rape offences, which were allegedly committed over a four-month period. He was remanded...
Road crashes cost Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) $15 million
Road crashes involving utility poles are proving costly to the Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS), with the company spending some $15 million last year alone to replace poles and transformers. "To replace a pole, it costs approximately $85,000.
New contracts approved by Cabinet
Cabinet approved the award of three contracts at its meeting held last Monday.Among the contracts is one for the completion of a nationwide active reference network based on Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The contract has been awarded to Spatial...
|
