Relief mode - Gov't expects influx of Haitians PM to visit island today - Trail of supplies begins - JDF personnel on rescue mission
Critical Government and non-governmental agencies and prominent private-sector organisations were jolted into feverish philanthropic action yesterday to assist earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Information out of the devastated island was hard to come by...
'No more skylarking' - PM outlines economic programme and debt exchange
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has asked the nation for one more big push as the Government tries to get the train called Jamaica back on the right track. While outlining the much-talked-about debt-exchange programme and the Government's medium-term economic plan...
We would go back to help, say local Haitians
Western Bureau: While most of them were fed up with the impoverished state of life when they fled Haiti for Jamaica, several members of the local Haitian community said they would gladly return to their homeland at this time to assist relief efforts...
Digicel workers killed in quake
In a release yesterday, Digicel explained that it was deeply saddened by, and concerned about, the devastation caused by Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti, which killed two of its employees. Digicel's Turgeau building in Port-au-Prince withstood...
Local, world leaders pledge support for quake victims
Leaders in Jamaica have all come out to express shock and sadness about the plight in which Haiti now finds itself. Office of the Prime Minister - The people of Jamaica extend deep sympathy to the people of our neighbour Haiti who are currently suffering...
Assistance for Haiti - Donations on the rise
World Bank - The World Bank announced yesterday that it would provide an additional US$100 million in emergency grant funding to support recovery and reconstruction Haiti.The bank is also sending experts to work with the government...
NEWS BRIEFS
Kern's defence to analyse phones - Lawyers representing North East St Elizabeth Member of Parliament Kern Spencer yesterday secured a victory in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court, when sitting magistrate Judith Pusey ruled they should have...