Cyclists still using toll road
On a fairly easy Sunday afternoon, Kevin, a construction worker, decided to take a little trip into Portmore, St. Catherine. So after talking with a friend at the causeway fishing village, he jumped on his bicycle and headed on to the busy Portmore toll..

Kidnappers killed after vehicle chase
While police were just over a week ago touting the training in the United States of two of its officers as hostage negotiators, one man in St. Ann resorted to more direct methods, crashing his car into kidnappers to rescue his 'baby mother'..

UK Diaspora wants more sensitivity to Jamaican professionals
London, England: Concerns have been raised in the United Kingdom about the awarding of contracts to non-Jamaicans, while Jamaicans in the diaspora with expertise are not sufficiently being brought into the process to impact on local development.

'Colon cancer warnings not being heeded'
Jamaicans are not heeding warnings about colon cancer which, up to five years ago, was the third most prevalent cancer in adult men and women in the country. Trevor Campbell, managing director of the Montego Bay-based Microlabs Ltd., said yesterday...

Public Defender says office will be strictly independent
Spanish Town, St. Catherine: Newly-appointed Public Defender Earl Witter says his office will will not be influenced by external forces in its operations. "The Office of the Public Defender, the one that I am appointed to...

Police Federation back at bargaining table
The executive of the Police Federation will be returning to the bargaining table today as they now press for a 50 per cent wage increase, down from a demand for 75 per cent.

Carnival air at the Arena
If the unity displayed during yesterday's public session of the People's National Party's (PNP) 68th annual conference is anything to go by, then the party may have exorcised the demons of disunity that have plagued it in recent months.

'Don't bring gutter politics to Mountain View'
Declaring the 'gutter politics' days of the 1970s and '80s over, People's National Party (PNP) president Portia Simpson Miller yesterday warned against simmering political tensions in the Mountain...