PM's 'unfixable' problems - Golding challenges Opposition to debate, says job has been tougher than any year of PNP's stint
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has challenged the Opposition to a public debate to seek solutions for a country steeped in crisis and labelled by The Economist news magazine as "unfixable". Golding declared Sunday night, during a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Area One Council...
- OUR gets ready for more renewable energy
- Who is Jakaya Kikwete? - Tanzania's head of state on his way to Jamaica
- Busy days ahead for Kikwete
Immigration Corner - Am I grounded byprocessing?
Hi Mrs Huntington, I recently got married in October and my husband is a US citizen. The papers were filed in New York where we reside. How long before I get my work permit?
Would I have to return to Barbados to collect my documents?
Fed keeping watch on sliding dollar
United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday said the central bank will keep a close eye on the sliding US dollar even as he pledged anew to keep interest rates at record lows to nurture the economic recovery. In remarks to the Economic...
Boyz look to heap more misery on SA
BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa: WHILE they are under no significant burden to achieve, the Reggae Boyz have no plans to surrender to the desires of a South Africa senior team desperate for a victory to lift its self-belief and that of its citizens - that they will...
EDITORIALS -The JFF and Tyrone Mears
The Tyrone Mears affair, and more so the Jamaica Football Federation's (JFF) response to it, represents, perhaps, the perfect metaphor for the state of football in Jamaica. It captures beautifully what once used to be a casual street phrase, but these days ...
LETTER OF THE DAY - UK targeting wrong immigrants
The Editor, Sir:I am so dismayed at Percival La Touche's views on the proposed immigration rules in the United Kingdom.I am a student here in the UK and believe its government is being hypocritical.
The 'Company' pays homage to the Duke
Dance shows in Jamaica are usually well supported, often by relatives, friends and fellow dancers. For the relatives, it is sheer pleasure to see that family member or friend onstage. Their impulsive reaction is to scream out his or her name, regardless of the inconvenience...
'Smart Alec' from Slipe
Now Slipe in St Elizabeth is not a place you'd come across on your way to the corner store. It's so far out of the way of, well, everything, that you're bound to think you're lost at least twice before you get there. By the way, a word to the wise: if you ever find...
Pope speaks outfor world's hungry
ROME (AP): Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's one billion hungry yesterday as a United Nations (UN) food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations, but rebuffed a UN appeal to commit billions...