Digical cut rates - Prepaid calls to any local network now $8.99
TELECOMMUNICATIONS provider Digicel yesterday announced a flat $8.99-per-minute rate for prepaid customers, cutting cross-network prices by as much as 49 per cent, in what could be the start of a fresh...
View ArticlePatterson Report with WICB in 'dock'
A positive development that could possibly result from the most recent fracas involving the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is a much needed revival of interest in what's commonly known as The...
View ArticleDigicel Foundation literacy initiative reaping rewards
AN education initiative, aimed at helping to achieve 100 per cent literacy in primary schools by 2015, is reaping impressive rewards with some students improving by two grades in one year, according to...
View ArticleTwo Klansman gang members slain by cops
TWO men, who are believed to b members of the notorious Klansman gang, were fatally shot by the St Catherine police last night.
View ArticleKingston Mayor wants cash to exterminate rats
MAYOR of Kingston Lee Clarke, is seeking funding from the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development to clear the Corporate Area’s rat infested drains and gullies.
View ArticleGov't backtracks on Prince Harry media protocol
THE Government this morning backtracked on an earlier decision to provide security vests and a tour bus for foreign media only and said local journalists will be accorded the same privileges....
View ArticleCops kill four more in MoBay
MONTEGO BAY, St James—Members of Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) and the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) have commenced probing the controversial police shooting of four men...
View ArticleThis Day in History - March 3
Today is the 63rd day of 2012. There are 303 days left in the year.
View ArticlePM Gonsalves tells Britain he is no water carrier
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) — Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves said this week that he does not regard himself as a "water carrier" or the "president of a fitness...
View ArticlePastor says thanks
Pastor Bryan Peart (second right) and his wife, Lorraine (right) were recently honoured by the Eltham Missionary Church in Spanish Town for 13 years of dedicated service. Here the couple is joined by...
View ArticleMico youth counselling centre rededicated
THE Mico University College this week rededicated its Youth Counselling, Resource and Development Centre which provides counselling for residents as well as functions as a training lab for students.
View ArticleCops kill 10 in three parishes
THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) — the body responsible for probing police shootings — was kept busy yesterday in the aftermath of 10 police killings in the parishes of St...
View ArticleVIDEO: JDF denies prisoners’ claims of routine beatings
THE Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) yesterday flatly denied that its personnel physically abused high-risk inmates housed at a section of the Horizon Adult Remand Centre.
View ArticleGovt backtracks on media guidelines for Prince's visit
LOCAL journalists covering Prince Harry's four-day visit to Jamaica will be provided with a bus and safety vests, following concerns that the international press was being given preferential treatment...
View ArticleMickey Hill murder case back in court
MALICA Reid, the police corporal who has been charged with the murder of Negril businessman Mickey Hill, had his bail extended when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.
View ArticleFalconer denies Bloomberg report
THE Government yesterday denied statements reported to have been made by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller about the Jamaica Debt Exchange (JDX) in an article published by respected United States...
View ArticleA Nigerian Farewell
After a four-year tour of duty on The Rock, Nigerian High Commissioner Peter Oyedele was feted at a grand farewell reception at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel last Friday. Fellow diplomats, government...
View ArticleAMEN Launches
Businesswoman Jacqueline Young has now reprinted her business cards, adding the titles author and publisher. Young proudly launched AMEN - A pictorial journey to historic churches in Jamaica, recently,...
View ArticleRed Hills Road residents advised to tackle rodent problem
THE Public Health Department of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) and the Ministry of Health is advising residents of the affected communities along Red Hills Road to take the following...
View ArticlePublic Health Dep't raps Calabar on the knuckles
THE administration of Calabar High School, which has been overrun by a large population of rats, will be served notice by the Public Health Department of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation.
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