New Kingston News

A family is happy today because of the heroics of a member of the St John's Ambulance team, based in Prospect, St Mary, just a few hundred metres from the St Ann border.The venue was the Buckfield playing field in Ocho Rios in October.... Read More... Mad rush on passport office The Passport office was bombarded for the second day in a row ...

IT was a steamy Saturday night in Kingston, Jamaica, and the Sky Bar was jammed with its usual weekend crowd: professionals in their 20s and 30s, by all appearances fit for the next flight to South Beach.

Another commissioner of police has resigned and the finger-pointing has started.

Members of the 1950s group Frats Quintet , Henry Richards, Winston White, Granville Lindo, Sydney Clarke and Wilfred Warner .

And then it was time to really celebrate! Our first stop was at Medallion Hall Hotel, located along Lady Musgrave Road in St Andrew, where trade unionist Danny Roberts, his wife and two daughters were feted by family members and friends at a very intimate luncheon.

Scores of friends from Jamaica and New York came in to celebrate with the Long Island-based product manager at MSC Direct, national distributors of industrial products in the United States of America.

The kick off Friday evening is the first Blue Ridge Foothills Folk Festival, featuring 1960s folk singers and recording artists at Glen Maury Park.

A Delaware County Sheriff's Department arson task force was already working on eight suspicious building fires and four incidents of vandalism involving arson when two buildings in Sidney Center were torched early Thursday morning.

EARL DANIEL is a globe trotter. He travels thousands of miles around the world as an agent of change.

It was time to wave the red and black as Trinidad and Tobago celebrated its 47th year of Independence with a reception held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston on Monday... Read More... Virgo passion My daahlings, it's still the sign of Virgo, with those celebrating today including artist/art dealer and north coast socialite, Peter ...

Every day this month we're rolling out a new feature on XLR8R 's Labels We Love of 2009.

Former Prime Minister Edward Seaga's picture is on the cover of the new Jamaica Journal and he was at the Spanish Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Sunday afternoon as it was presented to the public.

The week before Charles Hyatt Jr changed his international dialling code to 876 last year, he told someone at Negril, a popular restaurant in the Washington, DC, area, about his plans.

NCB's Atrium headquarters in New Kingston. Some 877.5 million of NCB shares are pledged as collateral on AIC bonds.

Excellent vibes, a tribute to the late Michael Jackson, a racy theme and good music breathed new life into French Connection: Amsterdam, last Saturday night at the New Kingston Golf Academy.

Dr Rosemarie Wright-Pascoe , president of the Medical Association of Jamaica , and Governor General Sir Patrick Allen , look on as the three senior doctors honoured by the MAJ at its Awards Banquet last Saturday night show off their plaques.

Saint International closed its Style Week Jamaica 2K9 with Fashion Block on May 31.

On Monday night, trumpeter and Big Band leader Sonny Bradshaw presented the schedule for this year's 19th Jamaica Ocho Rios International Jazz Festival as much as the event tends to be - unpretentious, with healthy doses of modesty and humour... Read More... Bonsoir, everyone In French, bonsoir means good evening or good night and that's what the ...

Keith Brown and Fae Ellington stand at attention as Sony Bradshaw's arrangement of the national anthem is played at Redbones the Blues Cafe, Braemar Avenue, New Kingston, on Monday night.

Kingston's Rondout Waterfront Flea Market will open Sunday morning and will run weekly through September.