Lead Stories Massive blaze - 37 stores destroyed ar Portmore Mall - Lack of fire equipment hampers response FIREMEN, ILL-EQUIPPED to quell a massive blaze, fought one of the largest fires in Jamaica's commercial history yesterday. The blaze in the sprawling Portmore Mall, St. Catherine, saw hundreds of millions of dollars in goods, equipment and fixtures... 
Phillips defends Highway 2000 contractor
 THE GOVERNMENT yesterday stoutly defended its decision to do business with French firm Bouygues Group which won the contract to construct phase one of Highway 2000. Amid questions about the company being investigated for alleged financial... 
Children First making a difference for over 700
 ZOE BARRETT is a self-confident young woman who attributes all that she is today to the help one organisation gave her family five years ago. She is one of several young people helped by Children First, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation... 
MPs trade insults - Acting Speaker refuses to swear in Dabdoub as new JLP member
 ACTING SPEAKER O.T. Williams left the House of Representatives in uproar yesterday, as both sides of the chamber traded barbs and insults over his decision not to swear in Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) representative Abe Dabdoub as a Member... 
Inverness Primary tops Enviro Competition
 INVERNESS PRIMARY in St. Ann copped the CIBC trophy and a computer for being the "Most Environmentally Aware" school at the recent awards ceremony for the Schools' Environment Programme (SEP). Second place went to Sandy Bay Primary and Junior High in... |