As Jamaican PM visits Harper speaks of crime and community
Campbell Clark and Adrian Morrow Ottawa and Toronto — The Globe and Mail Stephen Harper is marking a visit of Jamaica’s Prime Minister by reaching out to the diaspora in Canada: He spoke out Monday against linking Toronto gun crime to the…
Cayman Airways Flight Schedule changes due to TS Sandy
Tropical Storm Sandy, Schedule Changes Cayman Airways would like to advise of the following flight operations update due to the current projected path of Tropical Storm Sandy. All flights are presently expected to operate according to the published schedule with…
UPDATE: TS Sandy moving north-northeastward towards Jamaica
TROPICAL STORM SANDY DISCUSSION NUMBER 6 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL182012 500 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 2012 SATELLITE IMAGES CONTINUE TO SHOW FAIRLY WELL-DEFINED CONVECTIVE BANDING FEATURES …MAINLY OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE…
Update: T.D. now TS Sandy. Forecast to hit Jamaica
TROPICAL DEPRESSION OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA STRENGTHENS INTO TROPICAL STORM SANDY… …TROPICAL STORM WATCH ISSUED FOR JAMAICA TROPICAL STORM SANDY DISCUSSION NUMBER 2 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL182012 500 PM EDT MON OCT 22 2012 THE AIR…
Jamaican cops finding life better in the Cayman Islands
By Kimone Thompson, Features editor, Jamaica Observer THE Cayman Islands is apparently lapping up former members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), who ostensibly go there in search of better wages and conditions of work. Human resource officer at the…
China Harbour named in more scandal
Awarding of JDIP to CHEC is cause of concern to all Jamaicans says OCG in the following release from their Office. CHEC is the company that Cayman Islands premier, Hon. McKeeva Bush, is almost hell bent on employing to build…
Gleaner Editorial and Wrong on Wong article in relation to OCG concerns
Gleaner Editorial – Jdip And The Drunken Sailors Published: Wednesday | October 10, 2012 When the auditor general, Pamela Monroe-Ellis, issued a report on the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), we concluded that it was being run like drunken sailors…
Jamaican Lititz farmers battle odds to Beat Army Worm infestation
Mark Titus, The Gleaner Farmers in Lititz, St Elizabeth, are bemoaning the lack of support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and its affiliate, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), as they wage a relentless battle against a myriad…
World T20 cricket: West Indies beat Sri Lanka in final
ICC World Twenty20 final, Colombo (RPS) West Indies 137-6 beat Sri Lanka 101 all out (18.4 overs) by 36 runs A Marlon Samuels-inspired West Indies recovered from an awful start to beat Sri Lanka and win the World Twenty20. The…
‘Hormonal’ music gets a bad rap in Jamaica
By Jacqueline Charles, The Miami Herald KINGSTON—Men in tight jeans bounce up and down to the thumping beat, moving suggestively against scantily clad girls in neon-coloured bikini tops and supershort shorts twisting their bodies to the catchy lyrics. As the…
