Customers rush LIME stores for deals
SCORES of Jamaicans looking to capitalise on new mobile rate cuts flooded several stores belonging to telecommunication company LIME yesterday in an effort to capitalise on the promotion which saw the...
View ArticleArthur Williams Snr dies
FORMER educator and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament Arthur Williams Snr died on Thursday night at the age of 99. He was the longest living retired Jamaican Parliamentarian.
View ArticleINDECOM probes police killings
THE Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has launched a probe into the killings of three men by the police in an alleged shoot-out in Ensom City, St Catherine, on Thursday.
View Article‘It’s war’ - Tourism official calls for effort to make UK...
ROSE HALL, St James — President and chief executive officer of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) David Scowsill has called for a concerted effort to persuade the United Kingdom to discontinue...
View ArticleMPs clash over ombudsman’s future
POLITICAL Ombudsman Bishop Herro Blair’s office came under fire Thursday from some members of Parliament’s Human Resources and Social Development Committee (RSDC), who felt that the office should be...
View ArticleCop injured after killing gunman in daring Three Miles shoot out
A cop is now nursing gunshot wounds in hospital after he was involved in a shoot out with a gunman near the Three Mile Intersection in St Andrew yesterday.
View ArticleSchools charging for free lunch
PARENTS and students on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) are being asked by some schools to fork out money for free lunches provided by the Government under the...
View ArticleMexican president expects big IMF firewall boost
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — G20 summit host President Felipe Calderon of Mexico said yesterday that he expects the world's largest economies to deliver more than the $430 billion pledged to stop the...
View ArticleHannah Town fathers determined to give their children a better life
MOST of them grew up without the influence of a father, but the group of men who make up Fathers for Youth Empowerment (FFWE) in Hannah Town, are adamant that their own children will not suffer the...
View ArticleDeath Postponed: A gun that misfired saved Churchill Neita's life
This is the 18th in a series of close encounters with death by Jamaicans, many of them in prominent positions of the society. PROMINENT attorney-at-law Kenneth Churchill Neita has, over a 45-year...
View ArticleEgypt votes for Mubarak's successor
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Egyptians yesterday voted to choose between a conservative Islamist and Hosni Mubarak's ex-prime minister in a presidential runoff once billed as the country's long-awaited shift to...
View ArticleUN observers suspend Syria work
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — UN observers yesterday suspended their patrols in Syria o due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months...
View ArticleKilled by her 'pets'
RESIDENTS of Tawes Meadows in Spanish Town, St Catherine had become accustomed to seeing 69-year-old Victoria Parker do bizarre things. But when 'Girly' started petting rats — feeding and sheltering...
View ArticleBest Father's Day gift
NO shiny gift-wrapped package could have pleased Dr Lambert Innis this Father's Day as much as his actual present did.
View ArticleChina sends first woman into space
JIUQUAN, China (AP) — China yesterday launched its most ambitious space mission yet, carrying its first female astronaut and two male colleagues in an attempt to dock with an orbiting module and work...
View ArticleDisabled to get driver's licences soon
PHYSICALLY disabled persons who have been refused licences to drive based on the requirements of the Road Traffic Act Regulations of 1938 will finally be able to apply for a permit, just like their...
View ArticleFinally! Jonah and his family get a home
THREE months after their destitute living condition was highlighted in a Sunday Observer exclusive, Jonah Johnson, and his common-law wife Hyacinth Lewis are now waking up to more than just a new roof...
View ArticleA true father
HE has been considered a fool for foregoing a life of luxury to reside in Hannah Town, West Kingston, and become a single parent to two children with whom he has no biological connections, but...
View ArticleNew laws stir political debate in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has approved a series of laws by decree, drawing criticism from the country's Opposition.
View ArticleSectoral debates start Tuesday
THE 2012/13 Sectoral Debate commences at Gordon House this Tuesday, June 19, with Minister of Transport, Works and Housing Dr Omar Davies opening the proceedings.
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