Minister of Water and Housing, Dr. Horace Chang, yesterday (Dec. 15) handed over two of the two-bedroom houses, which have been built for Hurricane Gustav victims, to two families in...

Some 2,000 cruise ship passengers disembarked the Ruby Princess Cruise Liner, which arrived at the Ocho Rios Pier in St. Ann, on December 15, the start of the Winter Tourist...

The National Housing Trust (NHT), will be offering a range of measures to assist persons, who may have difficulties paying their mortgage, as a result of job loss or disruption...

A US$300 million facility has been negotiated with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to provide loans to the productive sector. Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, in making the announcement during a...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, has called on residents of St. Ann to support efforts to develop the St. Ann's Bay Hospital. The Governor-General, who...

Close to 29,000 tourists came to Jamaica in the first week of December, Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, is reporting. This, he said, is a 14.9 per cent increase on the...

Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Christopher Tufton, has defended Government's decision to grant import permits for leg quarters, stating that the move was to meet a shortage in production, as indicated...

With the consumption of ethanol globally expected to increase significantly over the next few years, Energy Minister, Clive Mullings, is upbeat about Jamaica's ability to export competitively to the international...

Hundreds including relatives, Jamaican community leaders, friends and colleagues turned out on December 12, to say farewell to the late former Office Manager at the Jamaican High Commission, in London,...

Hoteliers will soon be able to complete and monitor the processing of marriage applications online, through the Registrar General Department's (RGD) Hotel Interface for Marriage Applications (HIMA) programme. The launch...

The Jessie Ripoll Primary School in Kingston is the envy of all Jamaica, having being honoured with a gold-plated replica of the architectural masterpiece the 'Bird's Nest', which was the...