The director general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Colin Bullock, is warning of the serious risk posed by the recent spike in murders. He is highlighting the increase in murders along with the impact of drought as two phenomena that present a real and present danger to growth
Wednesday, August 26, 2015 | 7:17 PM BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Tropical Storm Erika is expected to move through the Leeward Islands on Wednesday night dumping as much as eight inches of rain, weather officials have said. The Miami-based National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said that the storm, the fifth since
Published:Tuesday | August 25, 2015 A HIGH Court judge has taken issue with the process used by Jamaican law-enforcement authorities to restrain properties believed to be the proceeds of criminal activities, warning that it could leave an innocent person in financial ruin and without the resources to fight the allegations. Under
Published:Sunday | August 9, 2015 QUESTION: My motor policy expires at the end of this month. I am planning to buy directly from an insurance company instead of using an insurance broker. Two things have influenced my decision. The first is the consistently poor quality of service that the broker
Saturday, August 22, 2015 HURRICANE Danny is not a threat to Jamaica at the time, but the country's Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), in collaboration with the Meteorological Service, was not taking anything for granted and is on standby as the weather system drew nearer to the
Published:Sunday | August 23, 2015 For many years, Rosie would complain of joint pains but she never visited the doctor. She worked all her life braiding the hair of white tourists in Ocho Rios. She recently had to stop working because the joint pains in her hands and knees had
From RJR Website 12:40 pm, Thu August 20, 2015 A woman accused of being involved in a health insurance scam has been arrested by the police. Twenty-five-year-old Dian Brown, a factory worker of Central Village, Spanish Town, St. Catherine was on Wednesday charged with breaches of the Larceny Act. According
Tropical storm Danny, the first named storm of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season, continues to develop about halfway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles. Danny is forecast to reach hurricane strength by Thursday. The computer model forecast shows that it may not reach near the eastern Caribbean
From RJR Website General Accident has reported that its profit in first half of this year was $27 million. That was well below the performance of the first six months of 2014, when General Accident reported $187 million in profit. According to General Accident, the largest factor behind the disappointing
Lynvalle Hamilton TODAY, the Jamaica Used Car Dealers' Association (JUCDA) is expected to submit concerns and recommendations to Anthony Hylton, the Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, on certain aspects of the revised Motor Vehicle Import Policy. The policy came into effect in April 2014. According to JUCDA president Lynvalle
