Tanker drivers resume duties
AS MANY as 170 tanker drivers who took industrial action yesterday, disrupting the petroleum trade, are set to resume regular duties this morning. Some drivers started working last night.

Mbeki receives Key to Kingston
IN A colourful ceremony at the Mandela Park in Half-Way Tree yesterday, South African President Thabo Mbeki was presented with the Key to the City of Kingston by outgoing Mayor Marie Atkins.

CARICOM at a critical crossroads
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, CMC: REGIONAL TRADE officials have sought to highlight the need for urgent decision-making and greater civil society participation at a time when the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is said to be engaged in "a very tall...

US, Caribbean shape up for hot trade talks
WASHINGTON, D.C.: UNITED STATES Trade Representative Robert B. Zoellick will meet with Caribbean Trade Ministers in Jamaica on July 2 to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), progress on global trade talks, trade capacity building...

DNA test disproves 'wrong baby' claim at Victoria Jubilee
STAFF AT the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) in Kingston were yesterday vindicated when results from a DNA test showed that a woman who claimed that she was given the wrong baby by a nurse at the facility, was in fact given the correct baby.

Striking Jamalco employees back on job today
CONTRACT WORKERS employed on the US$115 million expansion project at the Jamalco alumina plant in Halse Hall, Clarendon, are expected to return to work today, after they went on strike yesterday, protesting against alleged racial abuse by supervisors.