PATH fraud - Over $700k paid out to relatives of Manchester staff
AUDITOR General Pamela Monroe Ellis has uncovered fraudulent activities by staff at the Manchester office of the labour and social security ministry which has robbed beneficiaries of a Government poor...
View ArticleTrade unionist wants drastic reform of labour market, social safety net
MANDEVILLE, Manchester — President of the Joint Trade Union Research Development Centre, Lloyd Goodleigh wants a comprehensive reform of Jamaica's labour market and social safety net as part of an...
View Article'Sport talk'
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (centre) and the minister with responsibility for sport, Natalie Neita-Headley, greet President of the Jamaica Olympic Association Mike Fennell before a meeting...
View ArticleDavies sends warning ahead of JDIP audit
TRANSPORT and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies, under whose portfolio the controversial Jamaica Development Infrastructure Development Programme (JDIP) falls and for which a forensic audit has been...
View ArticleCaricom ministers happy with outcome of UK-Caribbean Forum
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) — British and Caribbean Community (Caricom) ministers ended their UK-Caribbean Forum Monday confident that the deliberations over the three days had done much to improve the...
View ArticleCivil society groups want transparency on JEEP
THE new government's controversial omnibus job programme -- the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP) -- is again under the microscope with civil society lobbyists demanding greater...
View ArticleWoman among 18 on police most wanted list
SIX months after Patricia Cornwall allegedly brutally stabbed and killed her husband, Anthony Cornwall, at their home on Red Hills Road, she is still on the run.
View ArticleMost of JDIP money already spent, says Davies
TRANSPORT and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies has revealed that almost the full US$400 million for the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) has already been spent, but insisted that the...
View ArticlePolice continue to probe allegation against Nelson
THE police are continuing investigations into allegation that former security minister Dwight Nelson pulled a gun on a supporter of the People's National Party (PNP) in the weeks leading up to the...
View ArticleFormer T&T PM hospitalised
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The man who led the resource-rich Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago for nearly 15 years has been hospitalised after an apparent stroke.
View ArticleGerman on child porn charge remanded
SVEN Littkowski, the German national believed to be the mastermind of an alleged child pornography ring and fertility centre in Jamaica, was remanded in custody when he appeared in the Corporate Area...
View ArticleAll set for Expo Jamaica 2012
Expo Jamaica 2012 was officially launched yesterday at a function held at the Wyndham Kingston Hotel. A joint initiative of the Jamaica Manufacturers' Association (JMA) and the Jamaica Exporters'...
View ArticleMinister: GCT removal from light bills part of taxation review
ENERGY Minister Phillip Paulwell says the Government intends to keep its election promise to remove the General Consumption Tax (GCT) on electricity.
View ArticleSingle and multiple entry visas
Q: I am planning to visit the United States Embassy for the first time to apply for a visitor’s visa. If my visa is approved, how many times will I be allowed to use it?
View ArticleDentist accused of paper clip use in root canals
NEW BEDFORD, USA (AP) — A former dentist in the US has pleaded guilty to fraud for using paper clips instead of stainless steel posts in root canals.
View ArticlePaedophile found hanged in prison cell
A convicted paedophile whose partner is accused of murdering their two children in a hotel in Spain has been found dead in his cell, the Prison Service said Wednesday.
View ArticleElderly man murdered in Morant Bay
THE Morant Bay Police are investigating the shooting death of a senior citizen at Lower York district in Morant Bay, St Thomas this morning.
View ArticleExtradited ex-priest faces 55 Irish abuse charges
DUBLIN (AP) — A defrocked Irish priest who was extradited from Brazil with British help has appeared in a Dublin court charged with 55 counts of sexually abusing 18 children.
View ArticleDefense: Stanford's empire "wasn't a fraud"
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's financial empire was real, his attorney says, and not, as prosecutors contend, built on a foundation of lies, theft and bribes as part of an effort to...
View ArticleGov't committed to level customs playing field — Dalley
MINISTER without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and the Public Service, Horace Dalley, says the Government is committed to creating equality among clients of the Customs department.
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