Broilers launches $1b ethanol plant
The Jamaica Broilers Group, the country's largest commercial poultry producer, is investing just over $1 billion in a fuel ethanol dehydration plant in Port Esquivel, St. Catherine. This was announced yesterday by the Broilers' management...

Boycotters to up tempo
A toll boycott rally is scheduled for next Monday as the Portmore Citizens' Advisory Council (PCAC) intensifies its protest against the controversial highway toll. Organised by the umbrella community group...

Police restive as wage talks falter
Rank-and-file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) yesterday remained restive, following another round of failed wage negotiations with the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Corporal Hartley Stewart, general secretary of the Police...

Home, sweet home for Rocky Point residents
A few dozen residents of Rocky Point, Clarendon, who lost their property when Hurricane Ivan ravaged the island in 2004, finally have a place to call home again. Slowly, they are moving into hurricane relief houses...

New crime task force
The Organised Crime Investigation Division has launched a new task force for Kingston and St. Andrew to buttress the work of Operation Kingfish. The new initiative, to be called the Major Investigative Task Force, was announced by Assistant Commissioner..

Paulwell censure bid fails
Industry and Commerce Minister Phillip Paulwell last night survived an Opposition bid to have him removed from office. Government members outnumbered the Opposition 29 to 17. The censure motion, tabled by Audley Shaw...

Portland Parish Council in turmoil - White moves to oust new mayor
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: An emergency meeting has been called for the Portland Parish Council (PPC) as People's National Party (PNP) councillors seek to have Mayor of Port Antonio, Rupert Kelly, removed from office.