Icon lost - Golding, Simpson Miller mourn Nettleford
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated...
Wetland warning
Global warming could lead to Palisadoes going under water if Jamaicans do not take care of the wetlands, an expert from the Port Royal Marine Laboratory has warned.The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA)...
CARICOM against toxic waste ship passing through Caribbean waters
CARICOM has expressed its "gravest concern" over the possibility of a ship carrying radioactive waste passing through Caribbean waters. "It has come to the attention of the Caribbean Community that a new shipment of vitrified high-level waste...
Proctor gets four years
There were mixed emotions yesterday as 89-year-old world-famous botanist Dr George Proctor was sentenced to four years' imprisonment each for conspiracy to murder his wife and three other women who...
Air Jamaica to suspend some of its routes
WESTERN BUREAU: Effective March 9, Air Jamaica will commence suspension of aviation ties with the Caribbean, disbanding their Grenada, Curaçoa, Nassau and Havana routes. The move is expected to have a devastating impact on informal commercial operators ...
New small-business loan scheme unveiled by Scotia
Scotiabank yesterday announced a new fixed-loan rate, aimed at stimulating activity and development of the small-medium enterprise (SME) sector over the next 12 months."Effective today, Scotiabank will offer on all new SME loans, a fixed rate of 16.95...
SMART CHOICES - Recovering quickly from an earthquake
JAMAICA HAS led the Caribbean in efforts to bring aid to the survivors of earthquake-ravaged Haiti. From all accounts, the capital Port-au-Prince is a ruined city, littered with mountains of rubble entombing thousands of bodies...
Homework centre for C Spring, Cassava Piece
A new centre to assist students living in Constant Spring and Cassava Piece, St Andrew, has been opened at the Constant Spring Seventh-day Adventist Church.The Oasis Learning and Resource Centre, equipped with computers and other learning aids, will...
Buchanan calls for cloud seeding to help with drought conditions
DESCRIBING DROUGHT conditions in his constituency as an untenable crisis, Eastern Westmoreland Member of Parliament Luther Buchanan has called for Government to 'seed' the clouds to stimulate rainfall."The severity of the drought demands...