'Major brain drain' - IMF says Caribbean has lost 70 per cent of workforce
WASHINGTON (CMC): AN INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper has suggested that there is evidence of high emigration and brain drain from the Caribbean. The paper says Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 per cent of their labour force...

Bouygues begins pull-out - Highway 2000 equipment being sold
BOUYGUES TRAVAUX Publics Construction Company, contractor for Highway 2000, is following through on its threat to leave the island this year without completing the final phase of a multibillion-dollar road project.

Prime Minister P.J. Patterson looks forward to writing in retirement
TORONTO, Canada: BRAVING THE frigid weather of -15 degrees Celsius, hundreds of Jamaicans, members of the Caribbean Diplomatic Corps and friends piled into the Jamaica Canadian Association (JCA) Centre, Toronto, on Saturday night...

Fans to be bussed to cricket events - officials
LOCAL ORGANISERS of next year's International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket World Cup are looking to bus fans into Kingston from rural parishes during the matches at Sabina Park.

Seven murdered on weekend
THE CONSTABULARY Communication Network (CCN) says that seven persons were murdered on the weekend. Four of these murders were committed in St. Catherine. According to the CCN...

Three held for Sandy Bay robbery spree
SANDY BAY, Clarendon: TWO MEN and a woman who are believed to be part of a gang of thieves preying on residents in Sandy Bay, Clarendon, are now behind bars. The identities of the accused persons have not been disclosed by the police...