Active quake zones in Jamaica: Island registers 200 tremors annually
JAMAICA HAS three active earthquake zones in two parishes along the eastern coast of the island, according to Dr Lyndon Brown, head of the Earthquake Unit and research fellow at the University of the West Indies,...
RJR crisis fund for Haiti jumps
RADIO JAMAICA (RJR) is reporting that Jamaicans have contributed more than $6 million in cash in the past three days to the Haiti Crisis...
No reports from public defender's office: Parliament demands annual reports from 2006
THE OFFICE of the public defender, led by attorney-at-law Earl Witter QC, has not filed an annual report to Parliament since 2006.The disclosure was made during Thursday's meeting of the parliamentary joint...
More than 7,000 US nurses volunteer
OAKLAND, California (AP):More than 7,000 nurses in the United States have volunteered to go to Haiti to help injured survivors of the devastating earthquake.National Nurses United, a national union, says nurses nationwide have answered its appeal to...
US to have up to 10,000 troops in Haiti, offshore
Up to 10,000 United States (US) troops will be in and around Haiti by Monday to help distribute aid and prevent potential rioting among desperate earthquake survivors, the top US military officer said Friday, as President Obama pledged long-term reconstruction help to President René Preval.
Obama: 'America won't abandon neighbour'
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP)President Barack Obama is pledging a sustained commitment to the government and the people of Haiti, and thanking United States (US) citizens for showing "extraordinary compassion".
Gleaner makes early interim dividend payment
THE GLEANER Company's Chairman and Managing Director, Oliver Clarke, yesterday announced that The Gleaner would be making an early interim dividend payment to its shareholders as a result of the group's recent sale of Sangster's Bookstores Limited.
Bodies found in burnt house: Three-year-old and mother perish
A 22-year-old woman and her three-year-old son are now dead following a fire at their house at 2 Marcus Garvey Drive in downtown Kingston early Friday morning.