McCalla warns docs: Medics under fire for issuing false certificates to selected jurors
Chief Justice Zaila McCalla is urging medical doctors not to engage in the practice of writing false medical certificates to exempt persons from serving jury duty.
Swearing-in scheduled for Tuesday
Arrangements are now being made for the swearing-in ceremony of Bruce Golding as Jamaica's eighth Prime Minister.The event is scheduled for King's House next Tuesday, September 11, at 4:00 p.m.
Children's Advocate cries for more protection
Children are regarded as the future of a society, and as such, Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke, is again calling for a more vigilant stance with regard to the nation's children to ensure that they are properly taken care of.
Market project on the skids
SPALDINGS, Clarendon:Almost seven months after construction work on the well-needed Spaldings market in north-west Clarendon started, to replace the over-60-year-old dilapidated facility, work has fallen behind schedule ...
Jamaica Public Service Company Limited says two more weeks for full supply
The Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) yesterday said it could take another two weeks before electricity supply is restored to some communities.
'Do not bar students for auxiliary fees'
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has encouraged schools not to prevent students from attending classes because of their inability to pay auxiliary fees.
Major probe into cop's murder
An intensive probe headed by the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT) is now under way into the killing of Detective Sergeant Edgerton Brown, a former member of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's security detail.Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark...
Court orders teen to attend church
A judge, in putting a pregnant 16-year-old schoolgirl on probation for throwing acid on five young children and two adults, saw the need for her to attend church and ordered her to do so.
Accident claims Jamaica Public Service contracted worker
A third person contracted to the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPS) electricity restoration efforts following Hurricane Dean which lashed the island on August 19, has died.
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