Miss Alice and Jermain in the Chapelton square
Ahh - ChapeLton. The place where everyone seems to move in slow motion and where there are more bicycles on the roads than cars. It was in the heart of this sleepy Clarendon town that I came across Miss Alice and her grandson Jermain.
Minister outraged at hospital's state
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Health and Environment Rudyard Spencer yesterday expressed disgust with the shabby state of the Noel Holmes Public General Hospital in Lucea, Hanover, during a site visit."I want to tell you, I am appalled," Spencer said after...
Gov't cuts Guyana rice imports, further suspends cement tariff
Industry and commerce minister, Karl Samuda, says the Government will be purchasing half of the 60,000 tonnes of rice that Guyana had set aside for the country. Samuda told reporters yesterday that Jamaica does not currently have a heavy demand for rice.
Former Carreras GM dies
Alan Lindsay, general manager and subsequently managing director of Carreras of Jamaica Ltd from 1964 to 1977, passed away on Friday, September 19, at Hatch End, Middlesex, England, where he retired in 1981. Lindsay was born in Newcastle...
Infirmary turns station for Falmouth cops
FALMOUTH, Trelawny: In the wake of reports of the poor state of the Falmouth Police Divisional Headquarters on Rodney Street, the Trelawny Parish Council has agreed to temporarily transform the matron's quarters of the Trelawny Infirmary into a cop...
JPS pays up August debt to Petrojam
The Jamaica Public Service Company Ltd (JPS) said Tuesday that it has paid over all outstanding debts for August to Petrojam, in keeping with recent agreements made between the management of both organisations. Energy Minister Clive Mullings last week revealed ...
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