Rats still on KSAC agenda
KINGSTON Mayor Angela Brown Burke today again raised concerns about the rat infestation problem affecting the Corporate Area and suggested that it will take a multi-agency approach for the issue to be...
View ArticleMore ganja found in Westmoreland
JUST hours after police in the Westmoreland Division seized a quantity of ganja in Cairn Curran District and charged three persons in connection with the find, they made another major bust.
View ArticleANANDA ALERT! 14-y-o missing
AN Ananda Alert has been activated for 14-year-old Joseph Smith of Grandison Path in Kingston 11, who has been reported missing since Wednesday, April 18.
View ArticleNo hope for third parties
ONE of Jamaica's leading political scientists based in the United States has virtually written off the potential of a third party emerging and winning the hearts of the electorate in future elections.
View ArticleMali official: 22 detainees to be released
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — An official in Mali says a group of 22 people who were arrested this week by the soldiers behind a recent coup would be released late yesterday.
View Article18-y-o's brutal murder stuns Gregory Park residents
EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD Amelia Pitterson had only just made the down payment on a plot of land as a step closer to fulfilling a long-held dream of relocating her mother from the Train Line squatter...
View ArticlePoor work ethic cited as reason for low productivity
POOR work ethic was yesterday cited as one of the reasons for the low level of productivity in the Caribbean.
View ArticlePublic Sector pension system unsustainable, says PSOJ
THE Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) on Wednesday told a meeting of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Pension Reform that the current public sector pension system is unsustainable for...
View ArticleVaz alleges David Rowe is the e-mail man; files libel suit
JAMAICAN-BORN Florida attorney David Rowe is the man fingered by Daryl Vaz, the former information minister, as the author of the widely distributed hate-mail that Vaz said libelled him and several...
View Article$200m to eradicate city rats
THE Jamaican Government will have to spend $200 million to urgently deal with a rat infestation in its main city, Kingston.
View ArticleCaribbean Airlines axing all J'can pilots
TRINIDAD-OWNED Caribbean Airlines (CAL) yesterday announced that the positions of all pilots represented by the Jamaican Airline Pilots' Association (JALPA) will be made redundant next month -- a move...
View ArticleBabysitter accused of killing four-month-old
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, US Virgin Islands (AP) — Authorities in the US Virgin Islands have charged a babysitter with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a four-month-old boy.
View ArticleE G Hunter is new NWA CEO
E G HUNTER, a former president of the National Water Commission, has been appointed CEO of the National Works Agency (NWA), Transport and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies announced yesterday. He will...
View ArticleHealth ministry addressing pharmacists issue
THE Ministry of Health is overhauling its pharmacy services, the ministry's chief financial officer, Michael Maragh, told the House of Representatives' Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday.
View ArticleJamaica goes harder after lottery scammers
THE Jamaican Government has been forced to take additional action to arrest the growing lottery scam as the Caribbean country moves to protect its international image.
View ArticlePEPPER POT: Tourism hate-mailer unmasked
O what a tangled web we weave when we do set out to deceive. The tourism official who should be promoting the industry is busy teaming up with the hate-mail people who would rather destroy the industry...
View ArticleVIDEO: Three homeless after Rousseau Rd blaze
IT was a normal morning for Zelburn Baker. His spouse Joy Murdock had gone off to work and his 14-year-old son was asleep inside a two-bedroom house at the back of a tenement on Rousseau Road in...
View ArticleObserver Online Exclusive: 28 days
FURIOUS waves kept up a sustained assault on the shorelines of the Pedro Cay.
View ArticleSuspect held in macabre Gregory Park murder
POLICE have collared a suspect in the gruesome murder of an 18-year-old girl in Gregory Park, St Catherine.
View ArticleThis Day in History April 21
Today is the 112th day of 2011. There are 254 days left in the year.
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