McNeill wants TEF to focus on big projects
THE Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) will now be required to have a three-to five-year plan to develop major projects which will greatly enhance the tourism product, according to Tourism and...
View ArticleTourism rebounds - Winter season looking good for Jamaica
JAMAICA’S tourism sector has grown by 2.4 per cent so far this year over the same period last year despite a sluggish start and the negative effects of Hurricane Sandy and the presidential election in...
View ArticleJUTC seeking fare hike
THE Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is in the process of seeking a fare increase, likely to come into effect by next April.
View ArticleCayman Islands Premier arrested
CAYMAN ISLANDS - The Premier of the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush, 57, has been arrested and is currently detained in police custody in connection with a number of ongoing police investigations.
View ArticleHouse approves sexual offences act
PARLIAMENT yesterday approved the almost three years late regulations for the Sexual Offences Act despite heated arguments from some Opposition members who urged the withdrawal of the proposed...
View ArticleCayman Islands premier arrested
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The leader of the Cayman Islands Government was arrested yesterday on suspicion of theft, abuse of office, and breach of trust in the famed Caribbean tax haven.
View ArticleCayman Island Premier released on bail
Cayman Islands Premier Mckeeva Bush was released on bail Tuesday night more than 12 hours after he was arrested at his home on suspicion of theft.
View ArticlePiracy group: Don't pay Somali pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A UK-led Piracy Ransom Task Force says the shipping industry must adopt additional measures to ensure that payments aren't made to pirates after a successful attack.
View ArticleWhitney, PSY and Sandy most Googled in 2012
LOS ANGELES,USA (AP) — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, millions of people searched the Web to find out about a royal princess, the latest...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Media of the Year, journalists extraordinaire
Still basking in the joy of winning the coveted Media of the Year Award from the Jamaica Advertising Agencies Association, the Advertising Department of the Jamaica Observer (JOL) broke bread and...
View ArticleIt's AAIMS
In the headline of a story on Page 9 of yesterday's Observer, an incorrect acronym was used for the All-American Institute of Medical Sciences. The correct acronym is AAIMS. In the same story, Dr Simon...
View ArticleThis Day in History - December 13
Today is the 347th day of 2011. There are 18 days left in the year.
View ArticlePHOTO: Obstruction
A police vehicle yesterday drives past a boulder and other smaller rocks that tumbled from the hillside along the Red Light main road in rural St Andrew. (Photo: Karl McLarty)
View ArticlePHOTO: A Christmas 'tail'
Blindfolded, a boy tries to 'pin the tail' on the correct end of the image of a donkey — much to the amusement of his peers — during a fun day to mark the beginning of the Christmas break at the Bull...
View ArticleShanique Myrie trial set for March 4
THE Shanique Myrie lawsuit against the Barbados Government over her assault by airport workers in that eastern Caribbean island is set to start on March 4 next year in the Caribbean Court of Justice...
View ArticleJudge to rule on no-case submissions in cops trial
JUSTICE Horace Marsh is expected to rule today on no-case submissions made by attorneys for the three police officers charged with the murder of two men who were abducted from a Corporate Area plaza...
View ArticleHighgate Health Centre gets ambulance
HIGHGATE, St Mary — The Highgate Health Centre in St Mary now has its own ambulance.
View ArticleSenior cop granted $1-m bail
INSPECTOR Dodrick Henry was yesterday offered $1-million bail in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court.
View ArticleNEI: Students have scant regard for school property
THE National Education Inspectorate (NEI) has placed on record its concern about the "scant regard for school property" displayed by many students.
View ArticlePolice: Look out for a grey Mitsubishi Cedia
THE St Catherine North and South police are urging the public, particularly persons living in the divisions, to be on the lookout for a grey Mitsubishi Cedia motor car they say have been featured in...
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