Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the renowned Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, which operates out of the United States, Lowell Hawthorne, is often referred to as the ‘Patty King’. He will, however, tell you that he is quite happy to be called the “Jamaican Ambassador”. A graduate of Oberlin High School in West Rural St. Andrew, Mr. Hawthorne, who...

Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the Port of Falmouth in Trelawny is poised to become a model regional cruise shipping destination, noting that this augurs well for Jamaica’s industry to exponentially record additional growth. Mr. Bartlett said, to date, the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has spent approximately $190 million to undertake projects in town, inclusive of renovation of the...

Newly appointed Opposition Senators, Donna Scott-Mottley and Damion Crawford, were sworn in today (October 20), during the Senate’s sitting at Gordon House. Both, who took the Oath of Allegiance during a brief swearing-in ceremony, fill the vacancies that were created following the resignation of former Opposition Senators, Councillor Dr. Angela Brown Burke and Mark Golding. Dr. Brown Burke and Mr....

National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Government is developing three mobile applications (apps) that will revolutionise policing in Jamaica. The Minister made the disclosure during the Jamaica Police Federation/Ministry of National Security scholarship awards ceremony at the Girl Guides Association of Jamaica headquarters in Kingston on October 19. He noted that the apps will allow police personnel to...

Forty persons pleaded guilty in the Home Circuit Court and Gun Court, downtown Kingston on Thursday (October 19) under the Sentence Reduction Day initiative. Fourteen of the pleas were entered in the Home Circuit Court and included three high-profile cases. Guilty pleas were entered by Phillip Brown, the so-called ‘tarpaulin killer’, who is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend, 31-year-old Kerry-Ann...

The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is recruiting volunteers for its recently established National Disaster Risk Management Programme. Under the programme, community volunteers will be trained in various emergency techniques to act as first responders in the event of a disaster. The areas of training include cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, search and rescue as well as...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, says the Government is reinforcing entertainment in Jamaica as a major source of growth and development. She noted that Reggae Month and Jamaica Carnival are two major projects under the rubric of festival tourism that will be strengthened in the upcoming year. She was speaking at the launch of Carnival...