Squatter plan - TEF approves $1 billion for infrastructural development of informal settlements
WESTERN BUREAU: The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has approved $1 billion for infrastructure development in squatter settlements in two of the country's largest resort towns. The island's Second City and tourism capital - Montego Bay, St James, and the cruise ship...
Celebrity pastor charged
The Jamaican-born international pastor, who allegedly gave two teenage girls money in exchange for sexual favours, was remanded when he appeared in the Savanna-la-mar Resident Magistrate's Court late yesterday afternoon. He has been remanded until July...
Cash Plus boss vacates premises
Former Cash Plus boss Carlos Hill avoided eviction yesterday when he moved out of the the upscale St Andrew home he had been ordered by the Supreme Court to vacate by Tuesday. Hill left the East Armour Heights residence early yesterday morning...
Rich with history
Clean, cool and marvellously rich with history is the capital town of Manchester - Mandeville. The town was established as far back as 1815. Two years later, the first courthouse in the parish was built there, and just 40 years later...
A Rose by any other name ...
With her wrinkled brow and slouching posture - evidence of her years - Rose Morgan sits outside The Villa Medical Centre and Pharmacy in Mandeville almost every day, begging.Rose came to Mandeville from Westmoreland to seek work as a young woman.
PNP split over by-elections
The wounded People's National Party (PNP) is in further crisis today as major disagreements have emerged among senior members over whether it should contest any other by-election which might be called because...
Melting pot
In the town of Mandeville today, among all the historic architectural landmarks, is an economic business centre jam-packed with people from St Elizabeth, Clarendon and Trelawny, the parishes surrounding Manchester. Mandeville is now the capital...
Media watch dog urges tighter Internet restrictions
AT LEAST one regulatory body wants the Government to introduce new legislation to protect the nation's children from adult content on social Internet websites, such as YouTube and MySpace. The Broadcasting Commission expected to submit a raft...
New telecoms policy too slow in coming - Paulwell
Opposition spokesman on telecommunications Phillip Paulwell says it has been taking the Bruce Golding administration too long to finalise a policy on a new telecommunications law to replace the antiquated statute now in existence...
Kern awaits Constitutional Court's decision
The Constitutional Court is to decide tomorrow whether it will grant the declarations being sought by former state minister Kern Spencer, who is facing fraud charges.Spencer and his former assistant, Colleen Wright, are charged in connection...
Thursdaytalk - Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit
Under the radar? 1. With the businessman almost never seen in public, some are asking if they are really the happy twosome, operating just under the radar.Breaking point2 Friends say the troubles started before...