Light bill cut - JPS announces further reduction as oil prices fall
Customers of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) can expect to see at least a 15 per cent reduction in their energy bills at the end of this month if their usage is consistent with last month.The JPS says the ease comes as the price of fuel...
Shaggy and Friends raise $27m for children's hospital
As Dr Lambert Innis, head of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, approached the microphone to address the media gathered at the hospital yesterday, Orville 'Shaggy' Burrell shouted from the back of the room...
Long recession without quick action, warns Obama
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President-elect Barack Obama yester-day said the deepening American recession could stretch years into the future if Congress fails to act quickly on his call to pump hundreds of billions of federal dollars into the nation's economy...
Frenchman rides into Jamaica
Painted canvases of worldly rocks beguile a mounted adventurer. This is the curiosity of Thierry Posty, an unbridled French cowboy and adventurer who has made a vow to himself to see every colour of the world on the back of his horse. His journey has finally brought him...
The tale of a US couple's accidental trip to Cuba
TAMPA, Florida (AP) Robert Vassallo and Angellette Smith had been battered by waves for two days when a final surge sent their boat crashing into a reef off the western coast of Cuba.They had set sail from Key West in their 38-foot (12-metre) sailboat...
Cop, baby injured in St Ann police shooting
OCHO RIOS, St Ann: The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is today expected to present the police commissioner with a preliminary report into an incident in which a baby, a cop and three others were shot by the police in Lodge, St Ann, on Wednesday night...
Promotions in Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) ranks
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has announced that 129 gazetted officers have been promoted effective December 1, 2008, but the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, says it is too soon...