Prime Minister of Jamaica eyes LNG deal
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller is on the verge of securing additional supplies of liquefied natural gas for the nation through a deal with the Malaysian Government. Mrs. Simpson Miller made the disclosure last night at a press briefing...

'Jamaican journalism needs baptism of fire'
AS MEDIA figures meet in Barbados for the Conference on Caribbean Media Annual World Press Freedom Day, president of the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), Desmond Richards, believes Jamaican journalists are themselves limiting their own...

MORE MEDIA: Are we being better served?
A CYNICAL wag suggested a few years ago that journalists more often than not behaved like fish swimming around in an aquarium peering outside for something interesting. Somebody drops a morsel of food in the tank...

Press focuses on global poverty
JAMAICA ENJOYS a relatively free press ranked 34th in one recent world survey, above the United States. But others and other countries may not be so lucky. To that end, the theme of World Press Freedom Day today is how press freedom can ensure...

Voter confirmation hearings next week
FOLLOWING ITS year-long reverification of voters, the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) will be holding hearings next week in another effort to confirm the status of more than 250,000 electors whose place of residence remains in doubt.

Six hurt in building collapse at hotel
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: CONSTRUCTION WORK came to a halt at the Piñero Group hotel site in Pear Tree Bottom, near Runaway Bay in St. Ann, yesterday, after a section of one of the buildings collapsed, pinning workers beneath the rubble.