One stop, driver! - Ministry puts brakes on new bus plan
The Transport and Works Ministry has applied the brakes to its route-replacement programme and there are indications that the process is in for a bumpy ride. A statement released by the ministry has blamed indiscipline on the part of applicants for the delay...
- Nuptials not so 'convenient' in Costa Rica - Lengthy jail terms for Jamaicans found guilty of business marriages
- Uplifting words for Jamaica AIDS Support - Golding says organisation has acted as pioneer in care of those afflicted
- PM's wife new patron for HIV committee
Ship ahoy! - Antoinette Blake pursues a maritime career
Nineteen-year-old Antoinette Blake, who has just completed the first phase of her seafaring training at the Caribbean Maritime institute (CMI) in Kingston, left the island via ship in September with the Belgian line EXMAR to begin the next leg...
- Don't just give for giving sake
- Bible Bible to the rescue - 'Woe is me' to those who miss the rhetoric
- Goodwill flows in Pell River - Rural school gets donation after teacher's success
Bunting, Williams to team up again - New investment firm in the offing - NCB on the hunt for wealth manager
Chris Williams, after 16 years on other people's payroll, is going into partnership with former employer Peter Bunting, one of Jamaica's pioneering investment bankers, impeccable sources say, with the two just about set to launch a new investment outfit...
- Pension switch costs Lascelles - Profit dips on writedown, higher operating costs
- Job agencies facing 'drastic' income drop from fee ban
- BNS ousts NCB Keycard in co-branding coup
Structure in West Indies breeds mediocrity, says Lara
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Brian Lara has delivered a stinging rebuke of the current structure of West Indies cricket.The West Indies batting legend feels the time has come for a major overhaul of the system and urges the game's authorities to start...
EDITORIAL - Responding to Jamaican gangs in Costa Rica
THE BEHAVIOUR of Jamaican gangs has caused the Costa Rican authorities to tighten immigration regulations against Jamaicans living in that country. This is, of course, a cause for shame for law-abiding Jamaicans and a further blotch on this country's reputation...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Jamaicans must save Jamaica
THE EDITOR, Sir: CHANGE WILL not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Have you every really taken a second to assess the myriad of problems Jamaica faces today?
'Stars in Concert' shone
"What a concert!" The joyful exclamation came from the ebullient Fae Ellington, emcee of Stars in Concert IV, an annual production of Christ Church, Vineyard Town. Her enthusiasm, which was shared by the large audience in the University of the West Indies' Assembly Hall...
Step up your training - cross-train to prevent burnout
Many of us consider ourselves to be in fairly good shape because we jog or walk several times each week. In addition, we do some extra workouts on the weekends especially when we link up with our friends. However, if we were to try a different activity we are likely...
BERMUDA - Global crisis still having impact on island, says finance minister
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): Finance Minister Paula Cox says Bermuda is suffering scars from the global recession which will take a long time to heal."Since the financial collapse of major banking institutions in the summer of 2008...
- Guyana cops face other torture allegations
- Three dead in vehicular accident
- US gives commitment to reducing HIV
BELGIUM - Obama requests more troops
BRUSSELS (AP): President Barack Obama is asking European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to contribute up to 10,000 additional troops to the international force in Afgha-nistan, officials...