Policing off-duty cops - Commissioner wants regulations for police, some on NSWMA payroll
The Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has ordered a review of the policy that governs the employment of off-duty police personnel. Karl Angell, director of communications at the Jamaica Constabulary Force, says the commissioner has directed that the policy review for the police....
PCJ exec axed in bulb saga
A HIGH-RANKING Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) official has fallen victim to probes into the Cuban light-bulb affair.Rodney Salmon, director of administration and corporate secretary at PCJ, has been relieved of his job, a release from the corporation said yesterday....
Montego Bay firm owes $50m for electricity
WESTERN BUREAU: A large company in Montego Bay, St James, is the most recent business to be caught with illegal connections to the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) distribution lines. It has since been deemed that the company owes $50 million for the electricity used....
Anglicans to mobilise Church Army in Jamaica
The launching of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Church Army in Jamaica will be a feature of the 138th Synod of the Anglican Church in Jamaica and Grand Cayman. The launch takes place with the opening service at St Peter's, the parish church in Falmouth...
Probe into PRIDE projects
THE BOARD of the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) intends to dig for evidence of corruption and impropriety in the management of Operation PRIDE projects. Housing Minister Dr Horace Chang said at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House yesterday...
Zacca still leads PSOJ
Christopher Zacca was on Tuesday unanimously re-elected as president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), for a second successive term. He received a vote of confidence from his fellow council members at their scheduled quarterly meeting which was held...
Students caught in crossfire - Gunmen, cops face off in August Town
Several hundred students were yesterday prevented from attending classes at the August Town primary and basic schools in St Andrew, following a stand off between heavily armed gunmen and members of the security forces. Joan Headmann, vice-principal of the August Town Primary School...
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