Cocaine threat - Munroe wants joint plan to fight drug trade, corruption

INDEPENDENT SENATOR Professor Trevor Munroe, has called on the Government to bring together the opposition parties and leaders of civil society to work out a joint plan on how to deal with the external threat posed by cocaine trafficking through the...

$16 million fire at Sandals Cay
A FIRE, caused by a bolt of lightning, yesterday ravaged an offshore Thai res-taurant at Sandals Royal Caribbean in the tourist resort of Montego Bay, St. James, causing an estimated $16 million in damage. The restaurant, located at Sandals Cay, was...

UHWI hires 18 Cuban nurses to fill shortage
THE UNIVERSITY Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) has hired 18 more Cuban nurses to fill a shortage of nursing staff. A release from the UHWI said the Cubans have already been assigned to areas of critical need at the hospital, but must undergo a...

Teachers honoured for long service
LINSTEAD, St. Catherine: THREE TEACHERS who have given a combined 83 years of service to Dinthill Technical High School were honoured during a dinner at the school last week.

Bus workers restive

SUPERVISORY STAFF at the Jamaica Urban Transport Company (JUTC) are said to be restive. Danny Roberts, spokesman for the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), an affiliate of the National Workers Union (NWU), said last..

Remembering two excellent Jamaicans
TWO DEATHS have grieved me terribly. Mr. Alfred Chen's tragic departure has made us all very sad. He was exemplary as a politician in that he mixed with PNP, JLP and No Party people. He never missed meetings of his party's executive - called the Standing.