The police Organised Crime Investigation Division (OCID) is stepping up its drive against the trade in counterfeit cigarettes despite death threats aimed at its members, allegedly from major players in the trade.
WESTERN BUREAU: More than 100 wards of the State attending schools in western Jamaica converged at the Hollis Peter Lynch Multi-Purpose Building in Montego Bay yesterday for the second staging of the Child Development Agency's (CDA) Exodus Remix Transition Programme.
Gone are the days when Portmore residents need to leave the municipality and journey to Spanish Town and Kingston to pay their taxes.
Industry watchers have been saying it for years. Cuba could become the number one tourist destination in the Caribbean - as soon as the decades-old United States embargo is lifted.
NEW YORK (AP):Having already caused a fuss this spring with the depiction of the prophet Muhammad on South Park, Comedy Central said on Thursday that it has a cartoon series about Jesus Christ in the works.JC is one of 23 potential series the network...
OSAKA, Japan (AP):Two-time Olympic champion, Veronica Campbell-Brown, of Jamaica, will headline a strong field in the women's 100 metres at the Osaka Grand Prix today.Campbell-Brown who won gold in the women's 200 in Beijing and Athens, will make her...
The Editor, Sir:I read with great amazement an article in The Sunday Gleaner of May 2, titled 'Detectives wanted for JCF'.
LUCEA, Hanover: Investors of the Spanish-owned Fiesta Hotel will be investing US$180 million to add another 800 rooms to the hotel at Point in Lucea, Hanover.Edmund Bartlett, minister of tourism, and Abel Matutes, chief executive officer of the Fiesta...