'Target garrisons' - Church needs to do more in inner cities
Following the murders of about 40 persons since the start of the year, at least one church leader has suggested that, instead of continuous prayers, the Church needs to move into garrison communities and target dons and other individuals.
FirstCaribbean cleared of Trafigura wrong
Three months after it became embroiled in an alleged breach of customer confidentiality in the Trafigura scandal, FirstCaribbean International Bank yesterday absolved itself of liability, claiming it had adhered to the law...
It's 3 million! - Record tourist arrivals last year
Tourism arrivals exceeded three million for the first time last year, generating an estimated US$1.9 billion (J$125 billion) in revenue, according to statistics released yesterday by tourism officials.
Rema residents asked to facilitate malaria teams
Health Minister Horace Dalley yesterday appealed to residents in the community of Wilton Gardens (Rema) to facilitate and cooperate with the health teams as they seek to carry out fever surveillance and mosquito control...
Two guards plead guilty
OCHO RIOS, St. Ann: High Court Judge Justice Marva Bishop will hand down sentence on January 18 on two men charged with the 2005 robbery of over $150 million from a Guardsman armoured vehicle in St. Ann.
Fiesta Group gets go-ahead in Hanover
LUCEA, Hanover: The Hanover Parish Council yesterday lifted the stop order placed on the Spanish Fiesta Hotel Group, allowing the resumption of construction on the 1,600-room hotel at Point Estate in Lucea.
McIntosh new Senior Puisne Judge
Supreme Court Judge Marva McIntosh has been appointed Senior Puisne Judge. The post had been vacant since August last year when Senior Puisne Judge Basil Reid retired. Justice McIntosh was appointed a Puisne Judge in May 1999.
Church group to host week of prayer
Starting tomorrow through to next Thursday, the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast Committee will be staging a National Week of Prayer. The eight-day prayer programme, 'Prayer Blitz 2007', will culminate with the leadership prayer breakfast...
You are wrong, KD - Butch - Sandals chairman denies excess utility services claim
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, the chairman of Sandals Resorts International, has strongly denied any intention on the part of his company to use what was characterised as "excess utility services capacity" at the Sandals Whitehouse...
More DPP resignations
The exodus of prosecutors from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is continuing. Five prosecutors resigned between September last year and January this year, and there are reports that others are planning to leave.
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