Support for UHWI paediatric wards
The paediatric wards at the University of the West Indies are getting more support from local interests. Last November, Rachael McDonald, Kristina Broderick and Isabelle Barnes of El Centro: After School Programmes, knocked heads in an attempt ...
A home in crisis - Indigent people could be put out on the street if no help comes
Street people in Clarendon could be forced to go back to the streets if financial difficulties continue to cripple the Clarendon Association for Street People's (CLASP) effort to refurbish the place they call home....
Negligent mother gets nine-month sentence
A Drewsland, St Andrew, woman has been sentenced to nine months' hard labour for breaching the Child Care and Protection Act. Before handing down the sentence, presiding magistrate, Ann-Marie Nembhard, enquired why she should not send 47-year-old Icylin ...
GG rallies Church to heal society's hurt
Jamaica's governor general has called on the Church to become fully involved in solving the country's social problems."More churches need to become engaged in educating the next generation of adults, not only in terms of academic studies...
Anti-corruption police czar cites hotline success
Assistant Commissioner of Police Justin Felice, the man charged with the responsibility of flushing the constabulary of dirty cops, has said that an anti-corruption hotline, launched one year ago, has been successful."We had an outstanding and...
Reconstructed buses could boost JUTC fleet
Nearly 350 "severely damaged" buses that were discarded by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) could be put back into service depending on the outcome of a pilot project now being conducted.
Record number of UWI PhD graduates in 2009 - Figures attributed to more stringent measures at the university
The Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) is reporting that last year it graduated its largest batch of doctoral candidates in any one year. Forty-eight persons collected PhD degrees at the institution's last graduation exercise, 44 of them Jamaicans...
Jamaica Scout Association celebrates 100 years
The Scout Association of Jamaica launched its year-long centenary celebrations at a press conference in Mandeville last Saturday.Throughout the year, the organisation will stage several events to mark its entry into Jamaica...
Immigrants likely to occupy casino job vacancies
THOUSANDS OF jobs in the casino-gaming industry might be out of the reach of Jamaicans this year as persons from overseas might have to be recruited to fill positions requiring technical skills and already-trained personnel...
Man 'rescued' by MP freed of charges
The man who was allegedly rescued from the police by Western St Thomas Member of Parliament James Robertson was on Wednesday freed in the Gun Court. Rameish Simpson, of White Horses, St Thomas, was freed of charges of shooting with intent at the police...