Children's Court judge Icylin Reid has expressed shock at the number of St Ann students appearing before her for crimes ranging from extortion to wounding and has warned them to steer clear of her court. "I do not want to see you in court...
Dr Herbert Thompson, the chancellor of the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), yesterday threatened the Cayman News Service with legal action and at the same time accused the media entity of political bias....
WESTERN BUREAU: Disaster coordinators in western Jamaica are now busily finalising their preparations to meet what weather forecasters are predicting will be a busy 2013 hurricane season. Three of the five disaster committees...
Director of the National Meteorological Service, Jeffery Spooner, says the agency is fully prepared to provide timely and accurate weather forecasting during the 2013 hurricane season, which begins June 1...
A senior executive at the ATL Group has conceded that except for 'normal' expenditures, no money left its pension fund as a result of the 2008 surplus distribution. This was part of the evidence given by David Davies, the chief financial officer...
Refurbishing of the Portmore Fire Station located at Waterford, St Catherine, will be the major Labour Day project undertaken by the Jamaica Fire Brigade on Thursday....
The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is taking issue with Minister of Education Ronald Thwaites' interpretation of the leave entitlement of teachers, which he presented last Wednesday during his Sectoral Debate in Parliament....
Children's Court Judge for St Ann, Icylin Reid, is lamenting the fact that greed has taken over the society and "everybody wants to live big" instead of staying in school and do their schoolwork.Read told students at Marcus Garvey Technical High School...
Food Basket: Worried about cholesterol? Well, let your food be your medicine. The medical industry continues to insist that we closely monitor the level of cholesterol in our blood. Woe betide you if it is elevated! But what really is cholesterol? ....
Members of the Jamaica Energy Council have declared that no consideration should be given to a Hong Kong-based firm which has expressed a belated interest in constructing the Government's 360-megawatt generating baseload plant....