Cruise calamity - One Killed, 11 Injured in Ship Blaze
WESTERN BUREAU: ONE MAN died of a heart attack, three persons were hospitalised and several hundred passengers had to be accommodated in local hotels after a fire engulfed three floors of the Star Princess cruise ship as it travelled into Jamaican waters.
Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) confident about CWC security exercise
THE JAMAICA Defence Force (JDF) is confident that Exercise Tradewinds will help ensure a safe Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007. The annual exercise, between Caribbean security forces, is now in the second year of a three-year programme...
Banana at risk as recovery funds dry up
THE BANANA industry is bracing for the worst if it should be severely affected by hurricanes or floods this year again, as stakeholders say there is no insurance or available funds to cover the damage.
Jamaicans sweep the sprints
MELBOURNE: SHERONE SIMPSON outlasted Olympic champion Veronica Campbell in the last 50 metres to register a stunning victory in the women's 200 metres final at the XVIII Commonwealth Games yesterday.
Preparing for the worst
IN A strange convergence of circumstances, within a few hours of the announcement of the Jamaica Defence Force's hosting Exercise Tradewinds, a massive military exercise which includes training for mass evacuation, there was an early morning mishap...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Teachers, reach out and touch ...
THE EDITOR, Sir: HAVE YOU ever looked into a pair of eyes and wished you could remove the weight that is hiding the sunshine of youth? Ever wished the tears you saw were tears of joy? As a teacher, there are days I have wished so.
Maja Awards comes to Jamaica
JUST OVER two decades after the first event was held at the University of Toronto in 1985, the Maja Awards (Canada's premier gospel awards) comes to Kingston, Jamaica, on June 10 and 11, in what Fitzroy Gordon described as "what I am...
HIGH TEA
HERE'S A new one: a 'Celebrity Teapot and Art Auction' will be staged by the Pauline Brown Committee, in collaboration with the Jamaica Cancer Society, next Sunday at 4:00 p.m. at the Mona Visitors' Lodge, University of the West Indies.
