Fire fury: Alligator Pond erupts over police shooting: Police station burnt:Service vehicle torched: One man dead
The usually serene town of Alligator Pond, at the border of Manchester and St Elizabeth, erupted into the first major protest for 2010 ...
Entertainment scene could explode in 2010
The casual observer will be forgiven for thinking it was all doom and gloom for Jamaican entertainment in 2009.
It's a renter's market: Big property discounts boost business for agents
The real estate market remains in the doldrums but local real estate agents are reporting that rental business volumes increased by as much as 40 per cent in 2009, even as...
Berlin glory, cricket chaos
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):Astonishing achievements in athletics once again shot the Caribbean to international prominence but a bitter, divisive cricket dispute between the region's major stakeholders marred the year and propelled the sport to the...
EDITORIAL - JPS GCT bungle
In the context of the Government's Christmas tax package of $21.8 billion, $118.5 million is not a lot of money - less than one per cent of the total.That, on the face of it, is the amount the Government will forgo because of the...
JAMMS makes inaugural payout
An inaugural payout by the Jamaica Music Society (JAMMS) was an unexpected year-end boost to the 134-member record labels.
Fireworks at the new year
Life is a funny thing.
Christmas with the Khiatanis
Ravi Daswani and Simran Chandiram are all smiles at Sunil and Sheila Khiatani's Christmas dinner at their Montego Bay home in St James.Lady of the house, Sheila Khiatani (left) and friend Jaishri Khiani, on Christmas day at her Lagoons residence in...
A new decade of discontent?
Except engaged in as mere ritual or mindless custom, happy New Year wishes are just that - wishful thinking, in light of the harsh and punishing economic conditions which are likely to be experienced in Jamaica this year.
Airplane adversities: The plain facts
The curtains have come down on 2009 - a year defined by challenges posed by global economic recession.It was a year of planes, trains and automobiles.American Airlines flight 331 crashed at Norman Manley International Airport; Government gives stimulus...