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- Chris Brown trial set for Monday 4:20 PM
- New scrap metal facility up and running 2:44 PM
- Police station opens in Hellshire, St Catherine 2:18 PM
- PHOTO: Crucifixion re-enactment 1:50 PM
- Increase in sexual assault cases worry St Vincent police 1:42 PM
- Armed robber shot dead by businessman 1:33 PM
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- Magnitude-7.2 earthquake shakes Mexican capital 12:52 PM
- Guyanese journalist on fraud charges 12:30 PM
- ‘We are going to stay the course’, Phillips tells country 11:30 AM
- Manchester senior citizen killed in Holy Thursday car crash 11:05 AM
- Food for the Poor releases 68 prisoners across the Caribbean in Easter week 10:54 AM
- Inmate escape from Richmond Farm prison 10:28 AM
- Police seize M14 high powered rifle in west Kingston 9:36 AM
- Shaw criticises govt's tax on withdrawal from banks 9:13 AM
- St Vincent national on drugs charges 9:10 AM
- 'The Boondocks' back for final 'offensive' season 8:39 AM
- Roman Catholic Church alarmed at upsurge in suicides in St Lucia 7:59 AM
- NWC warns Portmore residents about discolouration of water 7:43 AM
- A look at the new taxation measures 7:06 AM
Western News
'We want houses too'
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor for the Wakefield Division Jonathan Bartley is appealing for redundant sugar workers who once lived on barracks at Hampden Estates in Trelawny before it was divested by Government, to receive benefit under the First Step Homes programme. According to Bartley, t ... Read More
Grave Concern!
MONTEGO BAY, St James
THE dead are no longer buried at the decades-old Cholera Cemetery on Montego ... Read More
Appleton
Uberblue
delivers
Appleton Uberblue has built a reputation for delivering quality entertainment, and the most recent s ... Read More
Semi-finals
battle
It will be St James against Westmoreland in the semi-finals of the Jamaica Football Federation's Cap ... Read More
Entertaiment Dairy- Thursady April 17 2014
Thursday April 17 o Appleton's Baywest @ Buccaneer Beach Hotel, Dead End, Montego Bay. Adm: Everyone before 6:00 pm; $500 After o Splish Splash Dancehall Rock @ Sandpiper, Cave, Westmoreland from 7:00 pm-Until..... Adm: FREE before 10:30 pm; $1000 After o Heineken All-Star Thursdays Ladies Night @ Margaritaville, Hip Strip, Montego Bay. Adm: Ladies FREE before Midnight FRIDAY April 18 o Negril Bacchanal @ Cayenne Beach, Negril from 10:00 pm-Until. Adm: $1500 Presold; $2000 at the Gate Get ... Read More
Western Sport Diary April 17-20
SATURDAY St James FA Sandals/ATL/Honda Senior League Seaview FC vs Lilliput- Jarrett Park 3:00pm Seba FC vs Montego Bay United Under 21- Jarrett Park 5:00pm Salt Spring United vs Catherine Hall- Jarrett Park 7:00pm Trelawny FA Monymusk Overproof White Rum Major League Clark's Town FC vs Prospect Links- Cedric Titus 3:30pm Invaders SC vs Salt Marsh United- Wakefield 3:30pm Harmony FC vs Flames FC- Bounty Hall 3:30pm National Supplies Western Basketball Association's Men's League Blitz v ... Read More
JPS: Electricity theft behind broken street lights in St James communities
THE Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has denied claims by the St James Parish Council that it disconnected street lights in Flanker/ Providence Heights and some other St James communities in January. Director of Communications Winsome Callum, in a response to a Jamaica Observer query, said that theft of electricity from the street lights in the affected areas was to be blamed for the high incidence of outages. "The JPS is not disconnecting street lights," she said. "JPS teams have had to ... Read More
Shattered dreams
SIX-year-old student Howayne Lewis Jnr's ambition to become a pilot was crushed when he was run over by the wheels of a cane cart, moments away from his Town Head home Monday afternoon. Now, his little brother, Nathaniel Lewis, 4, has become disillusioned over the passing of his only sibling and wants to quit school. According to the boys' father, Howayne Lewis Snr, the younger son harboured hopes of becoming a mechanical engineer which he believes would have enabled him to assist in the ... Read More
Kamoza Clarke’s death plunges Bunker’s Hill into mourning
BUNKER'S HILL, Trelawny — LIKE other members of this quiet rural community, Leoverlyn Thomas is still hurting over the tragic passing of his brother, 31-year-old Kamoza Clarke. And even though he tries to put on a brave face, the emotional pain felt by Thomas was obvious on the weekend, as he reflected on how his beloved brother succumbed to injuries he sustained, four months after he was allegedly brutally beaten by lawmen, while in custody at the Falmouth Police Station lock-up. The be ... Read More
6-y-o boy crushed by cane cart wanted to become a pilot
SIX-year-old student Howayne Lewis Jnr's ambition to become a pilot was crushed when he was run over by the wheels of a cane cart, moments away from his Town Head home Monday afternoon. Now, his little brother, Nathaniel Lewis, 4, has become disillusioned over the passing of his only sibling and wants to quit school. According to the boys' father, Howayne Lewis Snr, the younger son harboured hopes of becoming a mechanical engineer which he believes would have enabled him to assist in the mak ... Read More
William Knibb student wins ATI essay competition
MARTHA BRAE, Trelawny FIFTEEN-year-old, fourth form student of William Knibb High School in Trelawny, Danielle Pritchard, is the 2013 winner of the Access to Information (ATI) National High School Essay Competition. She was chosen from a pool of 15 students across seven parishes, who participated in the fifth annual competition, organised by the Access to Information Unit, and the Access to Information Advisory Stakeholder Committee, in the Office of the Prime Minister. Nasharia Serinash of G ... Read More
Give Montpelier lands to farmers — Mark Hart
MONTEGO BAY, St James CARIBBEAN Producers Jamaica Ltd (CPJ) Executive Chairman Mark Hart is calling for lands at Montpelier in St James —earmarked for a housing development — to be sub-divided and put in the hands of farmers for cultivation. "There was talk once to create housing up there (Montpelier). And when I look at that valley I gasp, please don't let that happen," Hart exclaimed, the son of renowned farmer Tony Hart. "My dream for Montpelier is to cut it up into smaller far ... Read More
Bamboo industry will boost rural economies, says Ffolkes-Abrahams
MINISTER of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams has expressed optimism that a bamboo industry being pursued by Government, will bring economic prosperity to rural communities. "The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is working on a bamboo project. I am particularly working on that project for Jamaica and on the 14th of April we are expecting to see members of the Chinese Government here with us and we are going to have a mini conference ... Read More
Down to the wire!
It will be down to the wire with three teams chasing the two remaining places in the semi-finals of the Jamaica Football Federation's Captain's Bakery and Grill/Charley's JB Rum Western Confederation Super League as the regular season ends on Sunday. Former two- time champions Granville United, Tomorrow's People and Sandals Whitehouse will seek to join semi-final qualifiers Savannah SC and Reno FC when the top four gets underway next weekend. With one round of matches to go on Sunday before ... Read More
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