Residents protest police station closure
BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland: Residents of Bluefields, Westmoreland, took to the streets yesterday to protest against the closure of the police station in that community. Wolde Kristos, president of the Bluefields Bay Fishermen Society, said...
Spanish firm to control Sangster International Airport
Spain's big construction company, Actividades de Construc-tion y Servicios (ACS), is moving to take a majority stake in the consortium that manages Montego Bay's Sangster airport, an acquisition that will effectively give it control...
No Problem leads way in tournament
STORMY SEAS gave way to brilliant late evening sunshine as seven marlin were tagged and released when the second day of the Port Antonio International Marlin tournament came to a close at the Old Port Antonio Marina yesterday.
EDITORIAL - Revisit Political Code of Conduct
Andrew Holness, the young MP for West Central St. Andrew, has since apologised for his moment of juvenile churlishness in refusing to shake the hand of the Political Ombudsman, Bishop Herro Blair, and refusing to take part in a peace march...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Ethics and HIV/AIDS in the workplace
The Editor , Sir: Recent debates concerning remarks of the Jamaica Employers' Federation executive director on employers' right to test employees for AIDS should also consider several key points.
Bobby Brown wanted for outstanding child support
A warrant has been issued for Bobby Brown's arrest. A judge in Massachusetts made the decision after the My Prerogative singer didn't turn up for a court hearing regarding his child support payments to Kim Ward, the mother of two of his children.
Food addiction begins and ends with pain
The World Health Organisation recognises that obesity is a major problem worldwide. It states that this "escalating global epidemic is one of today's most blatantly visible and yet most neglected public health problem."
US scientists win Nobel prize for 'gene silencing'
STOCKHOLM (Reuters): Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday for their discovery of how to switch off genes, a potential road to new treatments for diseases from AIDS to blindness and cancer.
