Government firm on establishing fuel tax
CONSUMERS could be forced to pay $10 more per litre of petrol at service stations as Government pushes along with plans to apply a cess on fuel.Government insiders have said Finance Minister Audley Shaw will definitely unveil...

Yachts flock marina despite global economic crisis
WESTERN BUREAU: The $750-million Errol Flynn Marina in Port Antonio, Portland, is currently one of the hottest spots in the region and, up to yesterday, had run out of space for the robust influx of yachts calling...

Cheaper E-10 burns taxpayers' pockets
E-10 OCTANE, the new ethanol blend of gasolene now being promoted by Government as a safer, cleaner and cheaper fuel, might be costing Jamaicans less at the pumps, but is a tremendous cost to taxpayers.James Robertson, the minister of mining and energy,...

Disabled and poor, but in love
Hubert Jones and his companion, 'Daughter', live in a rusty zinc shack near a huge gully of black sand, in Eight Miles, St Andrew. And, despite the inhuman conditions in which they co-exist, theirs is a relationship that is repleat with love, caring, long-suffering, and sharing.

"I want my Mommy!"
"Only bad experience me have wid my mother," Marlon Dukesaid as he reeled off a string of things he claimed that his mother did to him.

'Mommy, you are stressed'
Q: I have two jobs and feel like I need another to make ends meet. My daughter is 10 years old and is telling me that I am stressed and that she thinks I will soon be breaking down. I agree with her.