'Rethink abortion' - Advisory group wants current laws repealed - Botched jobs put strain on public purse
Due in large part to an alarming number of botched abortions taking place in the island, a Ministry of Health-commissioned report has recommended that current laws prohibiting the practice be repealed and replaced with legislation outlining conditions under which medical termination...
Ticketing woes on first day at centre
Several confused and angry faces were evident yesterday as the first business day of the Half-Way Tree Transportation centre, in St. Andrew, got under way. The centre, in operation for only two days, was in chaos as commuters complained loudly about long wait in lines to purchase tickets...
Food subsidy takes effect in one week
Some consumers will have to wait a week to benefit from a government subsidy on basic food items, which took effect yesterday.The subsidy is to ease the effects of rising costs on the poor. A number of wholesale proprietors, who provide for the most vulnerable consumers, told The Gleaner...
Supreme Court bars National Commercial Bank (NCB) from closing Olint accounts
The Supreme Court has granted a 10-day injunction barring National Commercial Bank (NCB) from closing the accounts of investment club Olint Corporation Limited. Justice Leighton Pusey granted the injunction yesterday after hearing legal arguments from attorneys-at-law Georgia ...
Ganja bust in Gordon Key
Another canister of illegal marijuana was taken from the seas on Sunday night when the Marine Police seized 90 pounds of the substance from a ship in Gordon Key, St.Andrew, about 7 o'clock. According to the police, the substance, valued at more than $11 million...
NHT houses for Hanover this year
WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of Water and Housing Dr.Horace Chang says the construction of houses by the National Housing Trust (NHT) -to address the accommodation needs in the parish of Hanover - will get under way this financial year.
O'Meally-Nelson agrees to resign from University of Technology (UTech)
Dr.Blossom O'Meally-Nelson, pro-chancellor of the University of Technology (UTech), is to deliver her resignation letter to Minister of Education Andrew Holness today, even as she insists that the correct procedures were not followed in removing her from the institution.
Bunting, Duncan up for People's National Party (PNP) general secretary - Waite absent from slate
TWO returnees to representational politics, Dr. D.K. Duncan and Peter Bunting, have been nominated for the job of general secretary of the People's National Party (PNP). The election will be held at the party's National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Sunday...
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