Gov't slighted by diagnostic centres
Health Minister Horace Dalley has put on notice persons who privately-run diagnostic centres and refuse to honour their commitment to Government to take in public patients. Mr. Dalley issued the warning Wednesday while officially opening a CAT scan room...
Portmore residents lobby for reduced toll
A delegation from the Portmore/Hellshire community yesterday presented a 4,200-signature petition to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, seeking her intervention in addressing what the group described as the "unjust situation facing us as a result...
Public servant pension delays to be addressed - Office of the PM
A special committee is to be established to examine the reasons behind the delay in processing pension payments for retired public sector workers, according to the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). This was one of the decisions reached at a meeting...
Acid thrower jailed for eight years
A mother of three young children, who doused a 16-year-old schoolboy with acid, has been jailed for eight years.Ingrid Owens, factory worker, of 28 Fenbrook Avenue, Kingston 2, was sentenced after she pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm...
LOC moves to facilitate disabled at Sabina
Jamaica Cricket 2007, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the Cricket World Cup, has found a solution aimed at facilitating disabled people coming to Jamaica for the first round and semi-final of the World Cup matches at Sabina Park, Kingston....
Cricketers should increase HIV/AIDS awareness - Speed
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: Chief Executive Officer of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Malcolm Speed, says it is necessary for cricketers to increase awareness of AIDS, as 30 per cent of persons living with the disease are from 10 of the cricket-playing nations...
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