Not ready yet? - PNP chastised for calling early House sitting though unprepared to debate IMF issues
The Parliamentary Opposition was yesterday left with egg on its face after a noisy sitting of the House of Representatives. Its parliamentary leader, Derrick Kellier, told the House that the Opposition was not ready to participate in the debate on the new economic....
Caribbean rocked again - Cayman quake felt in Jamaica, Cuba and Miami
Another earthquake shook the Caribbean yesterday morning. Exactly a week after a 7.0 seismic monster devastated Haiti leaving thousands confirmed dead and thousands more feared dead, the Cayman Islands was rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake...
Too big a task - Medics worry they can't 'heal' Haiti
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: At the end of their first day in Haiti, Jamaican medical practitioners said they did not feel as if they did much because there was more surgery required than anything else. There were at least 20 medics and three of them were surgeons....
A chat with Maggie - Jamaican nurse tells of her experiences in Port-au-Prince
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: I stumbled upon Maggie Smith Forbes in an unfinished section of the Hpital de la Communauté Haïtienne. She was smoking a cigarette and staring into space. But that changed when she realised she was not alone....
No retreat - Shaw continues to defend FINSAC spending
Finance Minister Audley Shaw is not backing down from his defence of the Government's decision to spend $80 million on the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) Commission of Enquiry, even as more questions are asked ...
PJ to head Haiti committee
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson has accepted an invitation to be CARICOM's representative on a coordinating committee established to organise an international conference to flesh out a strategic plan for Haiti's reconstruction...
al-Faisal returns - Special measures to be put in place
Special security measures are to take effect today when controversial Muslim cleric, Abdullah al-Faisal, returns to the island. A senior member of the police force yesterday told The Gleaner that al-Faisal will be continuously monitored ...
GSAT transformation gets going
Minister of Education Andrew Holness has said that a revamping of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) is currently ongoing, and the ministry has already identified ways in which it wants to steer the high-school entrance examination....