THREE hundred and eighty-five sugar workers from the Pan-Caribbean-run Monymusk and Frome sugar estates will be sent home today after the company advised them yesterday that their positions are to be made redundant. Monymusk in Clarendon will lose 279 mainly field workers, while the 106 workers...
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday January 19, 2016 – The Ministry of Health in Jamaica is following the lead of health officials in Brazil and the Dominican Republic in advising women to avoid getting pregnant for now, given the possible link between mosquito-borne Zika virus and birth...
[caption id="attachment_9460" align="alignleft" width="300"] Krystal Thomas, her mother Sinfine Henry, and Jahmeil Sinclair were all remanded to prison.[/caption] GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Monday January 18, 2016 – Three more people, including the pregnant girlfriend of one man already charged, and her mother, have been charged in connection with...
[caption id="attachment_9451" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chief Justice Hartman Longley, left, with former Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett[/caption] Chief Justice Sir Hartman Longley says it is “fair” to say that thousands of people who were charged with criminal offences in the Magistrate’s Courts are roaming the country free...
[caption id="attachment_9426" align="alignright" width="300"] Commissioner of Police Dr Carl Williams[/caption] ANOTHER layer is about to be added to accountability in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) with the outfitting of police personnel with the long-touted body cameras. Cops are scheduled to start wearing the recording devices between the...