Bruce shuns Bush? - PM denies requests to talk with US president
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has turned down two invitations to have face-to-face talks with United States President George W. Bush. This has sparked concern of a possible rift in the relationship between Jamaica House and the White House, particularly as Golding has jetted off to Havana...
ATTACKING PRAEDIAL LARCENY - We are losing millions - Farmers
From Seaforth, St Thomas, to Windsor Forest, Westmoreland, farmers are pleading for an end to praedial larceny, saying they have lost millions of dollars worth of livestock and crops. Talk Frank Dunkley of Mountainside in St Elizabeth and one would consider him...
'Protect Brand Jamaica'
Protect indigenous Jamaican brands or lose them forever to foreign markets, Swiss intellectual property expert Felix Addor, warned on Monday. Speaking at a symposium on 'The Protection of Geographical Indications', Addor called for tighter regulations...
Gov't warned against playing politics with school boards
MAXINE HENRY-Wilson, opposition spokesperson on education, is warning the Government against any action that would politicise school boards. In her presentation yesterday during the Sectoral Debate in Gordon House, Henry-Wilson claimed that there have...
Petrol prices put the brakes on taxi profits
Gas prices are on the rise, and taxi drivers, like other motorists, are feeling the pinch. Hugh Burgher, a cabbie for more than three years, says soaring petrol costs have hit his business - and life in general - hard. Burgher's regular hours are from 9 a.m.-5 p.m...
Company keeps Tru to staff numbers
Jamaicans are trying desperately to keep their heads above water, and oil. There are those who have traded in cars for motorcycles, and downgraded from motorbikes to bicycles. Businesses have had to slash expenditure and manpower to avoid going under...
Outsourcing saves bakery lots of dough
Businesses have had to implement major belt-tightening to limit the effects of rising fuel costs and plunging profits.Many have been forced to take drastic steps to conserve. But companies that bank sales on islandwide delivery are finding the going tough...
Former Cash Plus exec wants bodyguards
The former Cash Plus manager, who brought the application to have the investment scheme put into receivership, has put in a claim for the company to provide her with security.The former executive said that since she brought the application in March...
Appeal court frees murder convicts
The Court of Appeal on Monday freed two men, who were convicted in 2005 of the murder of Veronica Bennett, shopkeeper, of Poor Man's Corner, near Yallahs, St Thomas.Freed are Kevin Watson and Nickel Bailey, labourers, of Yallahs.Watson was shot dead...
United Kingdom Baptists repent for African slavery
WESTERN BUREAU: After years of consultation and deliberation, the Baptist Union of the United Kingdom (UK) made a public apology on Jamaican soil Sunday for England's role in the transatlantic slave trade. The Rev Jonathan Edwards, secretary general of the Baptist Missionary...
Gym instructor gets off gun rap
A gym instructor has been freed in the Gun Court of charges of wounding and illegal possession of firearm. Steven Dixon, 28, of a Kingston address, was freed after Justice Lennox Campbell upheld submissions from defence lawyers, Tom Tavares-Finson and Peter Champagnie...
Police Fed shoots down Golding's claims
Western Bureau: Corporal Hartley Stewart, the general secretary of the Jamaica Police Federation, yesterday took Prime Minister Bruce Golding to task for agreeing with human rights lobbyists that the Jamaican police have engaged in extrajudicial killings...
Mom rues slain son
The dark clouds rolled in as a single raindrop fell to the ground, the concrete is still stained with the victim's blood and the yellow tape is bundled up in a corner.There is an emptiness in his mother's eyes.
Cops target Clarendon hot spots
As murders and shootings in Clarendon increase, the police there have widened the scope of their operation with help from the Mobile Reserve.The police are now focussing their operations on several hot spots in the parish. In a pre-dawn swoop on Sunday...
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