Jamaica News

THE Government is expected to use its majority in the House today to push through controversial amendments to the Revenue Administration Act.

Upon recognising a niche in the entertainment and resort market, Rockhouse Hotel & Spa and Pushcart Restaurant in Negril, Westmoreland, commenced its monthly outdoor acoustic concert series.

JAMAICA Air Shuttle has closed its airline operations, after failing to bring investors on board to purchase its grounded planes.

Juan Carlos Echeverry, former finance minister in Colombia, speaks with The Gleaner at the World Bank's offices in New Kingston yesterday.

Citing disrespect from civil servants and the difficulty in identifying long-term investments, they are calling for a central office to be based in the Office of the Prime Minister.

Claudia Gardner, Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Arnaldo Brown, said the government will be subscribing to the Madrid Protocol by year end.

Several north coast hotels yesterday reported occupancy levels in the high 90s, due mainly to the staging of the 5th Biennial Diaspora Conference now under way in the resort city of Montego Bay.

As a girl, Emily Deering remembers eating jerk chicken from a road-side cart and lobster diving late at night during family vacations in Negril, Jamaica.

I am, like most Jamaicans, feeling down regarding the news that our esteemed athlete Veronica Campbell Brown has been found to have a banned substance in her system.

Editor's note: This story was written by Col. Maria Cecilia Silva Velasquez of the Fuerza Aerea Colombiana and provides a fascinating look at how one South American county participated in a military training exercise thousands of miles away.

The Government is seeking to tap into the lucrative animation industry which generated more than US$100 billion in revenue globally last year, according to Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Anthony Hylton.

When you head out for a concert featuring an ensemble of America's finest musicians playing the music of some of the world's finest composers, you can be sure you'll have a wonderful auditory experience.

In seeking to project Jamaica as a business-friendly destination, Julian Robinson, state minister in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, has indicated that investors could have their operations up and running within four to six months of expressing an interest in investing.

NBC Today Show's hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb learn a few dance moves from Orville Hall and members of Dance Xpressionz on the set of Television Jamaica's 'Smile Jamaica' morning show.

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in attendance at the first day of the diaspora conference, is joined by Anthony Hylton , minister of industry and commerce, Delano Franklyn and Foreign Affairs Minister A.J. Nicholson.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Residents of Baldwin Crescent in Duhaney Park, St Andrew today made a desperate call for authorities to fix a huge crater covering a majority of the roadway.

THE leadership of Prayer 2000 - a partnership prayer ministry - has called on all churches across the island to participate in a 'peaceful prayer march' next Sunday, ahead of the hearing of an application challenging the constitutionality of the buggery law by the Supreme Court on June 25. The claim was filed by United States-based advocacy group ... (more)

GENERAL Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party Dr Horace Chang has expressed hope that the name of former member of Parliament and junior transport and works minister, Joseph Hibbert, who in 2009 resigned following allegations that he accepted bribes from British firm Mabey and Johnson for bridge-building contracts, will still be cleared even though ... (more)

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Police are searching for about two dozen Caribbean nationals who ran ashore from a Go-Fast boat at Golden Beach in Florida Sunday night, the Jamaica Observer has learned.

Reference is made to the matter of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade Minister Arnold J Nicholson criticising the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party and business leaders for "quarrelling with" regional partner Trinidad & Tobago for its seemingly unfair trade practices that have been putting Jamaican businesses at a serious disadvantage.