Rains to ease - Hurricane 'Ernesto' takes aim at Florida
The Meteorological Service yesterday maintained its flash flood watch for low-lying and flood-prone areas of eastern and central parishes until 5:00 this morning, despite there being no reports of widespread flooding..
Hard work really pays
Dana-Marie Dick of Campion College, made her family and friends proud when she copped nine ones in the 2006 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
Don't test workers for AIDS - MAJ president
Ocho Rios, St. Ann: The Medical Association of Jamaica has come out in strong opposition to the requests of some employers to have their workers tested for HIV/AIDS. According to Dr. Alverston Bailey, president of the MAJ, this is one of the problems...
T&T's Brown moving to Jamaica
Trinidad and Tobago's 2003 World Championships 100 metres silver medallist, Darrel Brown, is set to join the world 100m record holder Asafa Powell at the MVP Track Club at the start of the new season.
EDITORIAL - Dancehall and free speech
It is a shame that residents of the community of Grants Pen in St. Thomas could believe it was their right to inconvenience thousands of people on Sunday by blocking a critical route to protest against the arrest by the police of the dancehall DJ...
LETTER OF THE DAY - No to terror in Jamaica
The Editor, Sir: The Muslims who strap bombs to themselves or orchestrate bombings resulting in deaths of innocent people are absolute fanatics. We in Jamaica have lived a life free of this kind of deliberate criminal activity at least up to this point.
Laughter before the storm
While 'Ernesto' huffed and puffed its windy threats, satire and social commentary in the form of story, poetry and calypso blazed, crackled and popped at the Undercroft at the University of the West Indies, Mona on Saturday evening.
Joint statement by the SAJ and PTHA
Over the past few months, there has been a dramatic escalation in instances of missing containers, chassis and other equipment of shipping lines. In most of these cases, the afore-mentioned equipment has gone...
