What a drama in May Pen!
It's lunch time on a warm Tuesday afternoon. The sun is still high in the sky and there is only a slight breeze. It rained here last night so there are still puddles of water all over. Roy McKoy, a wiry old man with a pronounced limp and particularly...
Inside the budget
The Sugar Transformation Project will receive a budgetary allocation of $71 million this fiscal year, as set out in the 2007/'08 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project, which will be implemented this month, will last until June of 2013....
Mother of 12-y-o gets bail
WESTERN BUREAU: Vivienne Campbell, the mother of the 12-year-old girl whom authorities allege was swapped for a piece of land, is a happier woman today. Campbell, 38, walked from the Santa Cruz police lock-up last Thursday when a good Samaritan signed her $60,000 bail bond...
Man sentenced to four years for carnal abuse
Supreme Court Judge Gloria Smith sent a strong message against men who molest young girls when she jailed a man for four years for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old who is now the mother of his child. Rayon Mason, a 24-year-old vendor of Airy Castle Road, St. Andrew...
Police stations to be upgraded in 2007/08
A sum of $400 million has been allocated to the Ministry of National Security to facilitate the construction and improvement of police stations and other buildings.Details of the allocation are given in the 2007/08 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House...
Jamaican-connected Haitian brewer dies
Famed Haitian brewer Michael Madsen, who regarded Jamaica as his second home, died recently of a heart attack. According to a report in the MiamiHerald.com, the 65-year-old Madsen died last Saturday while entertaining friends at his mountain home near Kenscoff...
Education Ministry plans to improve behaviour modification programmes
The Ministry of Education and Youth is to consolidate the plethora of behaviour modification programmes which exist, to see how best it can address the rampant increase of violence in schools. This decision was made on Monday as various stakeholders ...
Cari-Med, pharmacists join fight against AIDS
As Jamaica continues its efforts to combat the rising HIV infection rate in Jamaica, Cari-Med, in association with pharmacists islandwide and their professional society, the Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica (PSJ), will be staging its inaugural pharmacists' walk on Sunday...
Looters strip overturned feed truck
Spanish Town, St. Catherine: The driver of a Leyland truck, who escaped with minor injuries after it overturned in St. Catherine, watched helplessly as persons took just minutes to loot more than 16 tonnes of feed, valued at $400,000, from the vehicle.
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