Lead Stories

A 15-year-old Haitian girl of Jamaican parents is now with family members in Portland after being stranded for approximately three weeks on the earthquake ravaged streets of Port-au-Prince.

PUBLIC DEFENDER Earl Witter is beseeching the country's police to place greater emphasis on the manner in which they engage citizens.

The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is to hold discussions with the Ministry of Finance on a new wage claim submitted by the association for the contract period 2010 to 2012.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will lead a delegation to Beijing, China, from tomorrow - Saturday, February 6, for a series of high-level meetings that will cover energy, bauxite and major investments.The visit has been made possible through an invitation...

AN UNFLATTERING comment on the Government's handling of the divestment of Air Jamaica to an overseas entity by a powerful diaspora group yesterday paved the way for sharp exchanges between at least two committee members in Gordon House...

The education ministry has confirmed reports that this year's sitting of the Grade Six Achieve-ment Test (GSAT) has been delayed for one week. However, the ministry says this will not affect the date for the release of the results....

Hoping to stave off a potential collapse of the used-car industry, the association, which represents its interests, is beseeching the Government to add a year to the age limit of cars it can import. President of the Used Car Dealers' Association...

Five Haitians came ashore at Stewart Town in St Mary yesterday. Superintendent in charge of the parish, Dudley Scott, could not initially confirm the story and had said shortly after 3:30 p.m. yesterday a man was picked up in the parish after reports...

WESTERN BUREAU: Multi-Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds will be the major drawing card when the 17th staging of the much-anticipated Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival moves into its new home - the spacious and exquisitely decorated Trelawny ...

THE GRANDMOTHER of a teenaged girl, who is stranded near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, is appealing for help to get her granddaughter to Jamaica. Fifteen-year-old Paula Sabrina Brown, a Haitian national of Jamaican parentage...

THE BRUCE Golding administration has less than 48 hours to finalise plans to deal with Air Jamaica or risk a further delay in its proposal to ink a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.25 billion stand-by arrangement by next...

Auditor General Pamela Monroe-Ellis has cited gross extravagance in the expenditure of the National Health Fund (NHF), with its management openly flouting public-sector guidelines to purchase first-class plane tickets...