2008-07-23 JUST OVER two years ago, Joleen Grant felt unfulfilled in her job in the advertising department at a Jamaican media house. That's when she saw an advertisement seeking a graphic designer with the Turks and Caicos Sun newspaper. "I never had any idea of what the place...

2008-07-23 Following the prime minister's announcement of the new anti-crime initiatives yesterday, The Gleaner sought the reactions of a number of persons...

2008-07-23 PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has described as extortion, the practice of some schools turning away students who do not pay the non-obligatory auxiliary fees. Commenting on the vexing issue in Parliament yesterday, a strident Golding told the nation that auxiliary fees ...

2008-07-23 MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Gary Peart, CEO of Mayberry Investments, says foreign companies are acquiring and capitalising on the success of local brands because some owners of Jamaican companies are incapable of taking their entities into the global market.

2008-07-23 Cable & Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) and Sandals Resorts International (SRI) have signed a three-year multi-products and services telecommunications agreement valued at US$7 million, which makes C&WJ the chief provider of data transport and mobile services to the hospitality industry giant.

2008-07-23 The EU-CARIFORUM Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) addresses the major aspects of intellectual property rights (IPRs) which are covered in the WTO/TRIPS Agreement. The EPA however sets higher standards of protection -'TRIPS plus'- in relation to these rights. This is somewhat to be expected as the EPA takes account of several international developments that have overtaken the 1995 TRIPS accord. In Part II, we looked at Trademarks and Geographical Indications and now cover Patents, Utility Models and New Plant Varieties in this part.

2008-07-23 Dr Sarafadeen Adebayo, a scientist at the University of Technology (UTech), has discovered that breadfruit can improve the production of the drug paracetamol - a discovery that could create valuable jobs in rural Jamaica growing, harvesting and producing a starch extract from the plant.

2008-07-23 This article seeks to give a brief overview of the development of environment utilities markets worldwide.

2008-07-23 One of Jamaica's human rights groups yesterday described the Government's new anti-crime plan as reactive, saying it neglects how to ensure that criminals are caught."All of these legislation kick in after the person has been caught," said Yvonne McCalla Sobers, convenor....

2008-07-23 Looking on, one would be almost tempted to think that Andrew Price's work is a dream job. After all, as J Wray and Nephew's Brand Communication and Promotion Manager, his work days must involve cavorting, entertaining and generally being called to -albeit a different kind of bar, on a daily basis.

2008-07-23 As businesses become more aware of the interdependency between themselves and their surrounding environment, local companies are moving towards strategic corporate social responsibility, a Jamaica Employers Federation (JEF) survey has revealed.

2008-07-23 Wray & Nephew and Red Stripe products may have the lion's share the alcohololic beverage market in the corporate area, but other manufacturers are looking outside the Kingston Metropolitan Area to procure a sizeable piece of the lucrative industry.

2008-07-23 Aggressive promotion and investment in attractions have seen them attract an increasing proportion of the cruise business in Jamaica despite an overall decline in the sector. Earnings for attractions from cruise passengers in 2007 was more than three times the number in 2005, according to Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) statistics.

2008-07-23 The Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ) and the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) yesterday signed the agreement to construct the US$300-million 100 to 120 Megawatt petcoke generation plant at Hunts Bay, scheduled to begin operation in 2013.

2008-07-23 RBTT managing director Mina Israel is investors' top pick to replace outgoing Scotiabank president Bill Clarke.

2008-07-23 Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) was scolded by its parent for shrinking revenues by J$2.03 billion in its fixed line division - the move coincided with the departure of Rodney Davis.

2008-07-23 PRIME Minister Bruce Golding yesterday promised tough new legislative measures to reduce crime, including a minimum 10-year sentence for gun crimes.

2008-07-23 THE Court of Appeal has upheld a Supreme Court decision to award a former furniture store employee $550,000 for being falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted.

2008-07-23 EXECUTIVE director of the Institute of Jamaica, Vivian Crawford, says the local nursing fraternity should lobby to have the remains of nursing pioneer and war heroine Mary Seacole reinterred in Jamaica.

2008-07-23 TERTIARY scholarships are to become a permanent part of the wage package for nurses in Jamaica, minister of Health Rudyard Spencer said last week.

2008-07-23 HIGH court judge Justice Bryan Sykes blasted the police force Monday for the shoddy investigation being conducted by some of its members, which he said has lead to the acquittal of guilty persons due to lack of evidence.

2008-07-23 COME August, Jamaicans on Government-run overseas work programmes will have more help in making sure their children are truly being cared for in their absence.

2008-07-23 GENERATION 2000 (G2K), the young professional arm of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), has announced a list of initiatives for the parish of St Thomas, among them plans to establish a $15 million community centre and a garbage disposal project.

2008-07-23 POLICING in the South St Andrew Police Division was given a boost with the launch of the first mobile police station Monday.

2008-07-23 JAMAICA'S tourism offerings has been boosted with last Saturday's opening of the Mystic Mountain Rainforest Bobsled Jamaica - an environmentally-friendly attraction in Ocho Rios, St Ann.

2008-07-23 THE Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) yesterday launched its Community Fire Safety Programme which is aimed at building awareness on fire prevention among Jamaicans.

2008-07-23 PETER Phillips, the man who is challenging Portia Simpson Miller for the presidency of the Opposition People's National Party (PNP), has asked his fellow comrades to keep the campaign clean and have respect for the party president.

2008-07-23 THE driver of a garbage truck, which killed Observer vendor Desreane Irving and Allison Burke and injured two other women in Half-Way-Tree, St Andrew earlier this month, was offered bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday.

2008-07-23 The nurses' union on Monday cautioned the health ministry about what it termed an unbalanced composition of a committee set up to review the operations of the National Chest Hospital, saying that the team was likely to muzzle health workers who wish to contribute to the probe.

2008-07-23 EDUCATION Minister Andrew Holness says that his ministry will move to regulate secondary schools that breach new guidelines he laid down in Parliament yesterday on charging controversial auxiliary fees.

2008-07-23 POLICE in the Turks and Caicos Islands yesterday dismissed rumours that head of beleaguered investment club Olint, David Smith, had attempted to commit suicide by taking a drug overdose.

2008-07-23 Project developers Felicitas Limited will be seeking advice from environmental and geology experts to see if they can replace the sand stolen from Coral Spring, Trelawny, once it is found.While the Island Special Constabulary Force investigates the...

2008-07-23 Sts Peter and Paul Preparatory School in St Andrew is on a renewed drive to equip its computer lab with state-of-the-art computers. The initiative has been welcomed by Shindaji Deane, a grade-six student who looks forward to using the lab for 45 minutes...

2008-07-23 The People's National Party (PNP) is expected to announce today if the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) will be called in to run its September 20 presidential race.That was one of the main items discussed when PNP officers met last night. Measures to prevent the contest...

2008-07-23 A number of random searches conducted in secondary schools across the island have revealed that one in four students is likely to carry a weapon, including illegal firearms. John McLean, the assistant commissioner of police in charge of the Community Safety...

2008-07-23 WESTERN BUREAU: The growing competition between legitimate and rogue fishermen at sea is being cited as a possible factor that contributed to the disappearance of four fishermen who went missing off the Pedro Bank, St Elizabeth, last Saturday...

2008-07-23 Kevin Cameron is in need of a mentor. The 13-year-old student of Calabar High School lost his father at the age of four, but says he is determined not to allow violence to mar his future. Kevin, who lives with his mother, Sandra Bundy, in the volatile community ...

2008-07-23 A 27-year old bus conductor has been sentenced to 10 years in prison at hard labour for sexually...

2008-07-23 Two Ghanian brothers who are accused of being major players in the sale of pirated DVDs, pleaded ...

2008-07-23 Reputed head of the Spanish Town-based Klansman Gang Tesha Miller is scheduled to return to cour...

2008-07-23 Member of Parliament for South Manchester Michael Peart has apologized for comments made in Parl...

2008-07-23 New court spaces have been created in a bid to clear the vast backlog in the prosecution of cases...

2008-07-23 It should be known by the end of September whether hanging will resume in Jamaica.

2008-07-23 Asafa Powell capi-talised on Usain Bolt's weak start and edged the world-record holder by one-hundredth

2008-07-23 Since Usain Bolt's 100-metre record run on May 31 to claim the title from fellow Jamaican Asafa

2008-07-23 Despite the presence of two trophy races on today's mid-week programme at Caymanas Park,

2008-07-23 In-form Jamaican racing men Kirk Ziadie and Wesley Henry registered double victories at the Calder racetrack

2008-07-23 WEST INDIES skipper Chris Gayle is among a handful of Jamaican cricketers who have the opportunity

2008-07-23 Digicel, the principal sponsor of West Indies cricket, believes the arrangement reached between

2008-07-23 Defending champions Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados all recorded comfortable victories