Mirant sells JPS - Power company attracts US$800 million price tag- US-based company offloads Caribbean interests to Japanese firm
Mirant Corporation yesterday announced it had agreed to sell its controlling stake in the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) and all of its Caribbean assets to Marubeni Corporation of Japan for US$1.082 billion. Finance Minister Dr. Omar Davies announced in Parliament yesterday...
EOJ to use electronic voter ID system
Director of Elections, Danville Walker, says the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) will be using the electronic identification system in 800 polling stations in the country's next general elections. Mr. Walker made the disclosure shortly...
Courtroom gag on reporters remains
Permanent Secretary in the Justice Ministry, Carol Palmer, says the challenges facing members of the media who cover court cases may not be addressed before the reform of the justice system is completed.Several reporters had complained that they were ordered to sit at the back...
Buchanan wants toreview Gleaner poll
Donald Buchanan, general secretary of the governing People's National Party (PNP), said the party would be reviewing recent polls commissioned by The Gleaner, which showed that the St.Catherine South East seat was wide open. Yesterday Mr. Buchanan told the newspaper...
Cho sent 'disturbing' mail to NBC
BLACKSBURG, Va.(Reuters): The gunman who went on a deadly rampage at Virginia Tech university this week paused between campus shootings to mail a rambling manifesto of grievances to NBC, the U.S. network said yesterday...
Cops lie, accused freed
A man has been freed of gun charges because Supreme Court Judge Martin Gayle found that two policemen had told lies in their evidence in the Gun Court."The police must stop telling lies when giving evidence," the judge remarked when he freed 21-year-old...
Pakistan team may not return for inquest
There is uncertainty as to whether members of the Pakistan cricket team will return to Jamaica to give evidence at the coroner's inquest into the death of their coach Bob Woolmer. The coroner's inquest is scheduled to get under way at 10:00 a.m....
Former PNP councillor to run as Independent
Following what he described as a gross insult to Member of Parliament for South East St. Elizabeth, Lenworth Blake, by the ruling People's National Party (PNP) hierarchy, councillor for the Myersville division, Winston Sinclair, says he will be challenging the seat...
Enviro groups to focus on endemic birds for Earth Day
As part of the annual Earth Day celebrations, regional environmentalists will this week turn their focus on the island's endemic birds. There are some 30 bird species endemic to the island, 25 per cent of which are threatened by global warming and other...
|
