Costly Haiti - Jamaica struggles with big relief bill
THE JAMAICAN Government could be forced to recall health and Jamaica Defence Force personnel from Haiti this week as the country struggles with a $700,000-per-day operational bill.Jamaica is leading the CARICOM response in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake ...
Jazz 'n' Blues Festival spikes tourist arrivals
WESTERN BUREAU: Stakeholders involved in the 14th staging of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival are declaring it a whopping success and have heaped praises on the decision to move the annual festival from Montego Bay to the more spacious...
Food at last! - New approach eases chaos in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law, who quickly disappeared behind the faded...
'CARICOM should focus on children'
AMID REPORTS of child trafficking on the rise and reports that Haitian police have arrested 10 US citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country, the Jamaica Association of Young Professionals is calling...
'We need more cops'
THE POLICE in Old Harbour, St Catherine, are desperate for an increase in their numbers, as they struggle to deal with the rising crime rate in the town.Currently, 35 police personnel are stationed in Old Harbour, which is home to an estimated 53,000 people....
Albert Huie passes
Albert Huie, Jamaican master painter, is dead. Huie was born in Falmouth, Trelawny, on December 31, 1920. He moved to Kingston when he was 16 years old and his talent quickly captured the attention of key figures in the early Jamaican art movement...
Top cop teaches youth life lessons
LASCO TOP Cop of the Year for 2008, Corporal Marvin Franklin, has called on male students to set discipline as a foundation that will enable changes and outcomes that may have seemed unattainable."All of you have the potential and the ability to do far...
First Global Bank under grief cloud
FIRST GLOBAL Bank (FGB) has secured the services of a counsellor to provide counselling for members of its staff today after the manager of the New Kingston Branch, Everett Lloyd Chito, shot and killed his wife, Karla, and then committed suicide...