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The island's disaster response machinery is now ready for action, as Jamaica prepares for a brush from Hurricane Gustav. The country is not expected to get a direct hit as the centre of Gustav is projected to pass several miles off Jamaica's north coast...

Cabinet has approved a new chairman for the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC).Robin Levy, deputy general manager of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), and general manager of the JSE subsidiary, the Jamaica Central Securities Depository, has been appointed chairman of the JUTC...

After the Jamaican team's spectacular performances at the Olympics in Beijing, China, athletes Bobby-Gaye Wilkins and Olivia McKoy arrived at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston yesterday afternoon. Wilkins, who ran in the heats for the 4x400 relay team...

Up to 70 per cent of Jamaica's workforce does not have a high school education, according to Edward Shakes, executive director of the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL). The JFLL is partnering with the Jamaica Bauxite Institute ...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) should soon have 100 new buses on the streets.But these will not be the double-decker buses which have been touted by Transport Minister Mike Henry. Instead, the new buses are being supplied by the Belgian firm...

A 20-year-old resident of Kemp Road became the country?s latest murder victim Monday night when he was gunned down inside a car.

Santo Domingo.- The company Barrick Gold, which operates in the country under the name Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation, signed an agreement with the ADEMI Foundation to cooperate with sustainable development projects in the communities of Sanchez Ramirez and Monseñor Nouel provinces (central) and the country?s southern region.

Santo Domingo.- Body Shop Athletic Club staged its first swimming invitational "Master 2008" in which Jaime Sanchez, 65, won the gold during the competition held at Body Shop's Santo Domingo facilities, involving 100 swimmers from across the country.

New York.- An intersection of Columbus Avenue between 94th and 95th streets in Manhattan will be named after prominent Dominican musician Mario A. Rivera, a music maestro who played 24 instruments during his career.

Santo Domingo .- The Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso will visit the country next month as part of a tour of several countries in the region, and the university UNIBE will bestow the degree Doctor Honoris Causa, awarded to personalities who excell in the sciences and humanities.

Santo Domingo. ? There are an estimated 20,000 mostly undocumented Haitian immigrants in the Bavaro-Punta Cana (east) area of the Dominican Republic as of December and around 3,000 more have arrived so far this year, an influx and accompanying sprawl that concerns the area?s hoteliers.

JAMAICA and Belize have refused to be a part of Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s proposed political union, notwithstanding the Prime Minister’s two-day whirlwind Caribbean tour –which saw him touch down in some Caribbean countries for mere hours– aimed at furthering talks on the controversial union.

HEALTH Minister Jerry Narace has changed his tune on the dengue fever scourge. Yesterday, he admitted that there were two dengue-related deaths in the country this year and that the public, “must treat mosquitoes as a national menace and a personal enemy.”

REIGNING world women’s boxing champion Giselle Salandy who is also a recipient of the Chaconia Medal (Gold), has some advice to Health Minister Jerry Narace and officials running the country’s health sector: “Get your act together!”

A ROUTINE road paving exercise along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in Wallerfield turned deadly when the driver of a ten-wheel truck lost control of the vehicle which ploughed through a group of persons, killing one man and injuring three others yesterday.

FOUR days of celebrations for the Trinidad and Tobago’s 50-member Olympic team are being planned by Government.