Jamaicans giving up citizenship
THE PASSPORT and Immigration Office in Kingston is reporting a slight increase in the number of Jamaicans living overseas who are choosing to give up their Jamaican citizenship as several countries tighten their immigration rules in response to the...

Mixed reactions as new fares take effect
MOST COMMUTERS using the Jamaica Urban Transit Co. (JUTC) buses reacted with relative calm as the new fare increases took effect, yesterday. However, it was not just the JUTC fares which had gone up. The operators of robot taxis which many persons use...

Buchanan defends NHDC
WESTERN BUREAU: HOUSING MINISTER Donald Buchanan has taken a swipe at critics of the restructuring and modernisation programme now under way at the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC), and has expressed confidence that the outcome of the...

Editors' Forum - Gov't to link teachers' salaries to performance
THE GOVERNMENT is pushing ahead with plans to link the salaries of teachers to their performance in the classroom. In January, the Education Ministry will pilot the much-discussed performance management system, which will set out the terms on which...

Searing heat boosts sales of fans, a/c units
RECORD-BREAKING HIGH temperatures soaring above 34 degrees Celsius (just over 100° Farenheit) have been blamed for more than 3,000 heat-related deaths in France over the past two weeks and scores of forest fires across the rest of Europe.

Despite DNA tests, cops want to track accused
WESTERN BUREAU: ALTHOUGH HE has been cleared by DNA results and released from custody the man, who the Montego Bay police had labelled the western city's much-feared serial rapist will be monitored by the police.