Water rate rises - Consumers to pay 28 per cent more
Consumers will have to pay 28 per cent more on their water bills. The National Water Commission (NWC) yesterday announced a 23 per cent rate hike, plus a further five per cent charge for the newly introduced K-factor programme. This means an additional $200 for most households.
Danhai walks - NHDC fraud case dumped
The absence of two vital Crown witnesses yesterday forced the director of public prosecutions (DPP) to drop the $451 million fraud case against east Kingston businessman, Danhai Williams, his company and five co-accused. However, the accused were told that if the witnesses...
Student battles for life - 10-y-o hit by bullet in Seaview Gardens
A ten-year-old girl who attends the Seaview Gardens Primary School should have been laughing and frolicking with her friends yesterday. Instead, she was battling for survival on a life-support machine in hospital, after being hit by a bullet, which threatens to leave her crippled....
Teary farewell for Bob's mom
CEDELLA BOOKER, the humble country girl whose first-born became a champion of the impoverished and downtrodden, was given an emotional send-off yesterday at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, St Andrew. Roughly 300 persons turned out at the church's Maxfield Avenue base to say farewell...
Experts predict tourism boom this summer
WESTERN BUREAU: There are projections that tourism arrivals this summer will be more than that of last year despite the economic downturn in the United States.Deputy Director of Tourism, United States, Donnie Dawson, made the analysis at the close of the Jamaica Product Exchange...
The Manley Memoirs - Men and the women they keep
"My relationship with my mother was always intense and often traumatic, and I see now that it, along with my experience of the power struggle between men and women, as observed first in my parents' troubled union, was largely...
Tuesday talk
1. Strata drama - A group of property owners out west is taking their case to the Supreme Court in order to turn the searchlight on how funds are spent and how the property is being managed. Despite the repeated disappearance of court files, the litigants are hopeful...
Liberty Hill Great House - A hidden paradise in St Ann
FOR OVER 200 years, Liberty Hill Great House, perched 1,200 feet above sea level, overlooks the town of St Ann's Bay. Today, its grandeur is being restored to not only tell a story, but to provide the perfect place for rest and relaxation for those who wish to unwind under its roof...
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