$40m award - Gov't told it must pay damages to man crippled in cop shooting
Government has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay $40 million in damages to a 20-year-old man who was shot in the back by a policeman.
- Negative view of community colleges changing
- E10 supply hits snag
- MoBay lotto scam mastermind shot dead
News-making baby thriving out of spotlight - ... Born on Cayman Airways flight to Jamaica
Fourteen-month-old Latiesha Julene Clarke is still oblivious to all the excitement and controversy her entrance into the world on October 2, 2007 had caused.She does not even know that she was born, at just 29 weeks, in...
- Criminal charges to be dropped in Dyoll case
- CAC to publish weekly grocery survey
- Loving 'Roving with Lalah'
After 52 years ...Blue Cross replaced - To be rebranded as Sagicor Jan 1, Merger to be finalised by March
Sagicor Life Jamaica Limited has been given 60 days by Blue Cross/Blue Shield, international owners of the brand, to finalise the transfer of the Jamaican business, and informed sources say that the transition is already two weeks underway with visible signs of the rebranding expected by next month.
Dyson asks WI for 'good, hard cricket'
NAPIER, New Zealand, CMC: WEST INDIES coach John Dyson has urged his players to produce "good, hard cricket" to get the result they need in the second Test against New Zealand at McLean Park, to clinch the series.After a drawn result in the rain-marred...
- Stanford's deal with the ECB still on
- Does WI cricket hang on Stanford's decision?
- Risk Rewards fancied
A keeper of the Jamaican memory
Conventional wisdom recognises the value of memory in the evolution of society. National hero/patriot Marcus Mosiah Garvey is credited with the observation that a "people who do not know their past are condemned to repeat it".
LETTER OF THE DAY - Unsophisticated critique of prime minister's plans
The Editor, Sir:The prime minister has presented a package that was clearly thought out and targets the right groups.
- Remove tax on gratuities
- Coffee farmers need leadership
- Remove AHurling insults at Bushtax on gratuities
Pulse prolongs model search suspense
Though the finals of the Caribbean Model Search (CMS) Reality TV Series was filmed on Monday at the Pulse complex in New Kingston, everyone will have to wait until later today to know who the winner is.Initially, the guests...
Capital vibes!
It was a high-energy, kick-off-your-shoes-and boogie-down kind of vibe at the Capital and Credit staff Christmas party held at Cuddy'z last Saturday.The party was dubbed 'Jamaica Night' and some people came out clad in their Jamaican...
Obama picks three financial regulators
CHICAGO (AP): President-elect Barack Obama yesterday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is going through.His...
- Bishop wants more pressure on Mugabe
- Hamas says it won't extend truce with Israel
- Bolivia: Expel all US ambassadors
Cave Hill honours Sir Shridath
Bridgetown (The Nation): THE University of the West Indies' (UWI) Cave Hill campus yesterday took time out to honour illustrious CARICOM son Sir Shridath Ramphal.The occasion was a luncheon and the official naming ceremony for the Shridath Ramphal...