Save our youths! - Advocate asks teachers to do more to rescue her peers
Jamaica's youth delegate to the United Nations 60th General Assembly has pleaded for the teachers to do more to save the nation's youth, who are involved in numerous troubling incidents. Kemeisha Kelly made the appeal during a function in Montego Bay, St James, on Tuesday...
Landslide leaves residents stranded in Portland
Port Antonio, Portland:More than 2,000 residents were marooned in Cascade, Portland, yesterday evening, after a section of the main road leading from Wakefield to Hardwar Gap became impassable due to a landslide. The collapse of the roadway affected hundreds of farmers...
New motor vehicle tax date postponed
The implementation of the changes to the motor vehicle tax structure has been pushed back to May 12. The new rate structure, which was announced by Finance Minister Audley Shaw during the opening of the Budget Debate in Parliament last month, was originally scheduled to take effect today....
Former child soldier fights for the innocent
Ishmael Beah went to hell and back as a child soldier who participated in one of the most brutal wars in the country of his birth - Sierra Leone, West Africa. He could have continued a life of guns, drugs and murder but instead made a turnaround and is now travelling the world...
RIU resubmits four-storey building plans
WESTERN BUREAU:RIU Hotels and Resorts says it will be resubmitting revised building plans to the St James Parish Council for its 700-room building under construction in Montego Bay, St James, which is said to have breached building regulations."Although...
Fighting for peace in Central Kingston
Police personnel, educators and members of the political directorate in the Central Kingston constituency yesterday met to assess the worrying crime wave in the constituency, amid reports that another three people were murdered.The first victim, Carla...
The Manley Memoirs
"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...
Thursday talk - HOTTEST TOPICS ON THE COCKTAIL CIRCUIT
What's up here? 1. Talk about justice not being blind! Some in the legal community are still trying to come to grips with the recent ruling in the courts that saw the chief justice awarding costs against the victor in a recent constitutional matter.
Montego Bay mob kills gunman - One hospitalised, another on the run
WESTERN BUREAU:One of three alleged gunmen who held a man hostage inside his house at Irwin, St James, Tuesday was fatally chopped and stabbed by angry residents. Police sources confirmed that the dead man and his cronies were residents of Paradise, Norwood, in the parish....
Land row out west
Some residents living in two districts in Westmoreland have brought a case in the Supreme Court seeking orders to prevent any prospective owner from taking over the lands on which they live.The residents, totalling 34, are contending that they have been living on the lands ...
St James on wellness drive
Public health authorities in St James are seeking to raise awareness about the negative impact of physical inactivity with the hosting of Wellness Day on May 9.The Wellness Day initiative, which is being held under the theme, Move for Health, Fit for Life...
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