Lady of courage saves teen's life
A family is happy today because of the heroics of a member of the St John's Ambulance team, based in Prospect, St Mary, just a few hundred metres from the St Ann border.The venue was the Buckfield playing field in Ocho Rios in October....
Mad rush on passport office
The Passport office was bombarded for the second day in a row yesterday as Jamaicans scrambled to beat the deadline for fee increases announced by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA). The new rates for passport and passport services...
'Children at Risk' conference next week
The Church, in partnership with the international children's advocacy organisation, Compassion International, will host an international conference on 'Children at Risk' at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston next Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 a.m.
Expanding drug treatment: Is US ready to step up?
NEW YORK (AP): Based on the rhetoric, America's war on drugs seems poised to shift into a more enlightened phase where treatment of addicts gains favour over imprisonment of low-level offenders. Questions abound, however, about the nation's readiness...
Bright future for St Patrick's Foundation
There's a new man running St Patrick's Foundation, the non-profit charity that helps residents of some of Kingston and St Andrew's poverty-stricken communities. Mark McKenzie, former head of beer-making giant, Red Stripe, is the new chairman...
Law school frowns on make-up of finance division legislation
The Norman Manley Law School yesterday issued a stern warning against politically tainting the proposed legislation establishing the Financial Investigations Divisions of the Ministry of Finance.In his submission to the Parliamentary Committee ...
Church must rise from slumber
The Church must rise up from its slumber and challenge the forces of darkness threatening the Jamaican society, former senior director at the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Evangelist Patricia Cuff, has said."It is high time for the Church to wake up...
Finsac enquiry delayed again
When the Finsac Commission of Enquiry was adjourned yesterday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, the participants and audience did not know when the next hearing would be held.Justice Boyd Carey, commissioner, told the gathering that a date...