KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer -Digicel will eliminate roaming charges for clients travelling within the US and Caricom, effective October 1, 2013. Phillip Paulwell, Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) president, announced the agreement with the mobile telecoms giant throughout the region on Wedne...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - NOT for the first time, the annual Denbigh show was held in the long shadow cast by that scourge of modern Jamaican agriculture, farm theft, stylishly referred to as praedial larceny. Farmers have to deal with droughts, floods, extreme price fluctuations, and the high ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has won Thursday’s by-election in the Cassia Park Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC) - the municipal body which runs the affairs of the capital city. The JLP's Beverly Prince defeated and Sheryn Brom...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - The police in the central parish of Manchester have launched an investigation into the early morning robbery of twenty-six missionaries. The missionaries from God’s Missionary Church in Pennsylvania, in the United States were invited to Jamaica by the Jamaica Holiness...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Observer - OPPOSITION Member of Parliament Mike Henry, says he has tabled his resolution on reparations again in Parliament, in an effort to force a political decision on the matter in the House. "What we need is a political decision, that will enable us to take the matter to the...

(Jamaica Gleaner) A sixteen-year-old boy, who was on the Kingston Central most wanted list, has been captured. The teen, whose name cannot be released, was wanted for more than 10 murders, several cases of shooting with intent and illegal possession of a firearm, was captured on Text Lane in Kingst...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Gleaner - Livestock geneticist and veteran cattle breeder, Dr Karl Wellington has expressed reservations about the use of microchips to address the wide-scale theft of farm animals, as is being mooted by the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisher...

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Phillip Paulwell has refuted media reports of plans by the Government of Venezuela to increase the interest rate on loans provided under the PetroCaribe Agreement. “We have been in contact with th...

(Jamaica Observer) GraceKennedy is expected to send its first shipment to Nigeria by year-end. The food, financial and money services conglomerate has already established itself in Ghana, and is now in the final stage of lengthy product registration and due-diligence processes in the neighbouring W...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has approved a seven million US dollar grant for Jamaica to support a five-year development plan aimed at resuscitating the island’s ailing dairy sector. Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Roger Clarke said...