Stopping traffic - PACT completes training of peer educators - Students expected to boost awareness about human trafficking
The awareness of human trafficking among Jamaicans is expected to increase significantly as People's Action for Community Transformation (PACT) has trained students as peer educators. The peer educators are expected to carry the anti-trafficking messages and warnings to their friends...
- Farm-work programme a blessing to Jamaican families
- Celebrity sightings on the increase for blood drive
- Local gov't will not stand on its own just yet
Jarrett's tips on surviving tough times
Several options are open to Jamaicans to help them brave the 'global economic hurricane' now affecting the country, says Jamaica National Building Society General Manager Earl Jarrett.1 Never waste an opportunity"We should never waste the opportunities...
- Shifting funds is not the answer - JTA president
- Whitney Smith: outstanding 4-H clubbite
- Big bucks for Bogue project
SEC chief calls for oversight of rating firms
The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission said Wednesday the agency must do more to tighten oversight of Wall Street's credit-rating industry to help bolster investor confidence.SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro spoke as the agency considers possible...
- Securing our region's future
- Golding travels to Trinidad for summit of the Americas
- New energy minister back from Venezuela
Taylor to undergo assessment
The West Indies cricket team departed yesterday for England without fast bowler Jerome Taylor, owing to fitness concerns. Taylor, who missed the last one-day international against England with injuries, was later involved in a car accident which also ruled him out...
EDITORIAL - Mr Obama's Cuban overture
Nearly three decades ago, a Cuban deputy minister for tourism put the issue this way: The Fidel Castro regime, he said, was not losing a battle of ideology; "We are not winning the battle of the blue jeans."Indeed, Cubans, if they could afford it - and very few could...
- Preparing for Port-of-Spain
- The Summit and US trade policy - part I
- 10th anniversary of April gas riots
LETTER OF THE DAY - How to waste money
The Editor, Sir:Ever since the Public Works Department (PWD) was replaced by the National Works Agency (NWA) some years ago, the new entity has been nothing but a millstone around the necks of taxpayers. It forever refuses to take the cheaper route ...
Experience Peter Tosh
AMERICAN RECORD company Shanachie Records has released a comprehensive set featuring reggae legend Peter Tosh. The Ultimate Peter Tosh Experience contains two DVDs, a CD and a 30-page booklet that provides insight into the life and work of one of the music's....
It's terrific on the Terrace!
When it's time to celebrate a milestone, there is hardly a better place than Norma's on the Terrace, Devon House, St Andrew. That is just where Beverly Dinham-Spencer and her friends and family marked her special 60th birthday recently. Check out the menu...
Carib may be tough on Barack
WASHINGTON, D.C., (CMC): A number of political analysts and developmental experts predict US President Barack Obama may face a group of leaders far less forgiving than their European counterparts about Washington's central role in the global financial...
Mumbai terrorist trial abruptly adjourned
India (AP):The first trial in the Mumbai terrorist attacks was abruptly adjourned yesterday, only an hour after police pulled a large cloth off the head of the defendant to reveal the scruffy-bearded Pakistani who police say is the lone surviving...
- Chávez wants CIA operative extradited
- Drug lord captured in jungle raid
- US experts asked to leave N Korea's nuclear plant
Leading sustainable development - How about nuclear energy?
No matter how many regional alliances Jamaica enter into, or free trade agreements we ratify - the main thing that will always remain the foundation of survival - is competition. Every balance struck natural or man-made is a result of equal and unchanging...