SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Labour Day in St Elizabeth seemed at a lower key than in previous years but still much was achieved, parish and community leaders say.
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Low-key Labour Day for St Elizabeth
SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — Labour Day in St Elizabeth seemed at a lower key than in previous years but still much was achieved, parish and community leaders say.
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Low-key Labour Day for St Elizabeth
SOME residents of Denham Town, West Kingston, yesterday staged a protest in front the police station in the community against last Friday’s fatal shooting of a music promoter.
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Denham Town residents say music producer killed in cold blood
SOME residents of Denham Town, West Kingston, yesterday staged a protest in front the police station in the community against last Friday’s fatal shooting of a music promoter.
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Denham Town residents say music producer killed in cold blood
Each year, scores of volunteer doctors, nurses, educators and other professionals from around the world take time off from their jobs for weeks and months to live and work among the people in the deep rural community of Hagley Gap in St Thomas where the international charity Blue Mountain Project (BMP) has set up its base.
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Filling a gap
The driver of a passenger bus slows down to join curious onlookers viewing the remains of the Nissan Wingroad at left, which crashed near Berger along Spanish Town Road in St Andrew yesterday evening. The car driver, who said he was heading to a funeral, said his tyre blew out while he was travelling in the direction of Six Miles and the car almost ended up on the opposite side of the road. No one was injured. (PHOTO: PETULIA CLARKE)
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PHOTO: Car crash
AS part of Jamaica’s continued push to have the Blue and John Crow Mountains designated as a World Heritage Site, the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has provided over $13 million to date to support the venture.
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TEF supports push to designate Blue and John Crow mountains World Heritage Site
THE Westmoreland Police on Friday charged a pastor with having sexual intercourse with a person under 16 as well as grievous sexual assault.
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Westmoreland pastor charged for sex with juvenile
Employees of tour company Jaital Tours celebrated some of the nation’s children last week when they visited several schools in and around Ocho Rios, St Ann, bearing gifts for the young ones.
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Jaital Tours gives back
THE Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) and the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited are partnering with Hi Pro Farm Store today to provide support for farmers who were affected by the fires in rural St Andrew.
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Labour Day help
UNITED States Ambassador to Jamaica Luis Moreno says he is proud of his country’s push for respect for human rights here, and vowed that Washington would not relent in this effort.
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US committed to seeing equality in Jamaica
CONTROVERSIAL Muslim cleric Abdullah al-Faisal has hinted that there may be plans afoot to unseat the acting president of the Islamic Council of Jamaica, Al-Hajj Mekaeel Maknoon.
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Al-Faisal wants Islamic Council acting head out
EIGHTY-NINE farmers joined Jamaica’s apiculture industry following their graduation from the USAID-funded Jamaica Rural Economy and Ecosystems Adapting to Climate Change (Ja REEACH) and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries apiculture training programme.
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Ja REEACH Project supports 89 bee farmers
EASTLAKE, Ohio (AP) — An 18-year-old had successfully eluded officers in northeast Ohio, but a search for his missing hat led him back into the hands of police.
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‘hat’s funny
OPPOSITION Spokesman on Local Government Desmond McKenzie is calling on the Government to suspend the increase in trade licence fees until the public is properly notified.
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Suspend increase in trade licence until public is notified — McKenzie