Portia gets PM approval from People's National Party's (PNP)
THE GOVERNING People's National Party's (PNP) parliamentary group yesterday unanimously selected party president-elect Portia Simpson Miller to replace incumbent Prime Minister P.J. Patterson when he demits office by month-end.
Gas tax on table
GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY tabled new proposals for an energy policy which could include the reintroduction of a value-added tax on gas. In presenting the measure, Prime Minister P.J. Patterson said the Jamaica Energy Policy 2006-2020 was aimed...
Heavy rains pound St Ann
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: A WOMAN who was washed away in her motor vehicle on the A.G.R. Byfield Highway in St. Ann yesterday was rescued by passing motorists as flood rains battered sections of the parish. She was later hospitalised.
Prospect girl still missing
AFTER TWO days of intense searches, the Morant Bay police have failed to find Jihad McCool, the nine-year-old girl who has been missing since Sunday. Five members of her family were slaughtered in the sleepy town of Prospect, St. Thomas...
Lyssons in mourning
YESTERDAY WAS his 10th birthday. But instead of the usual celebrations, Sean Chin Jr.'s classmates at Lyssons Primary School were still mourning his tragic death. The grade nine students were writing their goodbyes...
Flight attendant held for ganja
AN AIR Jamaica flight attendant was jailed Monday night after narcotics police found compressed ganja concealed in his luggage at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. He is Elan Parkinson, of a Washington Close address in St. Andrew.
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