'No more violence': Trench Town residents condemn police murders Police offers $1 million reward for information
RESIDENTS OF trench Town in south St Andrew, where two members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were fatally gunned...
Displaced farm workers seek compensation
AS MANY AS 4,000 Jamaican former farm workers, who were shunted off Florida's sugar cane fields following the mechanisation of the farms in the 1990s, are now being told to go home, or face further distress.One-time...
Tales of hope, despair
A sixty-five-year-old Jamaican farm worker - who does not want his identity disclosed - was recruited under the H-2A Agricultural programme by Florida Fruit and Vegetables Association in Orlando Florida, in November 1982...
A labour of love: Passport drive helps desperate farm workers
Since 1998, the Jamaica United Relief Association (JURA), a voluntary organisation, has teamed with local civic bodies, churches and government agencies, to offer passport renewals, citizenship and voter-registration services to displaced farm workers...
Men still at the helm: Study says women play lesser roles in governance, leadership
NEW RESEARCH has pin-pointed the persistence of "entrenched male hegemony" within Jamaica's boardrooms and raises the question as to why - with higher levels...
Less water vapour could ease global warming
A LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL scientist thinks too little attention is being placed on water vapour or H2O gas as a contributing factor to global warming.
Jamaicans overseas to sue Hill
A LARGE group of Cash Plus investors in the United States are pre-paring to join their counterparts in Jamaica who are taking legal action against the investment company to retrieve their funds.
Calabash bears witness in Treasure Beach
After Rosemarie Stone had finished her reading from No Stone Unturned, concluding the excerpt from her book about contracting HIV from her now-deceased husband, Carl, with, "amazingly, there is still hope, there is still joy",...
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