ILO to conduct sugar safety survey
Western Bureau: The Ministry of Labour and Social Security says it will collaborate with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Caribbean office, to conduct a full survey of the safety and health standards in the sugar industry...

'Montego Bay centre of illegal drug trade'
WESTERN BUREAU: National Security Mini-ster, Dr. Peter Phillips has described Montego Bay as an organising centre for the illegal drug trade during a meeting held yesterday with the St. James Parish Council in Montego Bay to discuss issues of crime and..

Special Olympics Ja host 1st Carib MedFest
Special Olympics Jamaica recently hosted the Caribbean's first MedFest at the Windsor School, Duncan's Pen, St. Catherine. The event attracted some 268 persons with mental retardation along with 129 parents. MedFest is designed to officially register...

Spring breakers do voluntary work
Westmoreland: Two administrators and five students from Sexton High School, Michigan State University in the United States used their Spring Break holiday in Jamaica to do voluntary community work on the Roaring River Early Childhood Institution. They...

Portia will be PM says Phillip Phinn
The Rev. Dr. Phillip Phinn has said that Local Government Minister, Portia Simpson Miller will be the next prime minister of Jamaica....