Caribbean plots early warning system
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC: The Barbados-based Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA) said yesterday that it was working towards establishing an early tsunami warning system for the Caribbean in light of the tragic events that led to the...

Tsunamis a threat to Ja?
SINCE THE evening of Christmas Day in Jamaica, we have been following the news of death and destruction caused by the Boxing Day tsunami in the Indian Ocean following a series of earthquakes that started in the plate boundary zone in Sumatra and then the

Some parents differ on placing GSAT students nearer home
THERE ARE mixed feelings among parents on one of the recommendations put forward by the task force on education, namely that the distance from home to school be taken into consideration when allocating Grade Six Achievement Test..

NYS recruits teenagers to work as enviro aides
HEIGHTENED DEMAND for more personnel to assist in the national efforts to upgrade and preserve Jamaica's natural environment has led to the recruitment of over 300 'environmental aides' by the National Youth Service (NYS). The training of these...

Route taxi men to come under greater discipline
ROUTE TAXI operators can expect no favours from the National Association of Taxi Operators (NATO), the organisation to which many of ...

NWC wins damages appeal
THE NATIONAL Water Commission (NWC), has won its appeal against a Supreme Court ruling that it unlawfully retired 56-year-old Balteano Duffus 14 years ago as director of corporate planning.