Govt spending $1.3b to improve health service

April 19, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_10570" align="alignleft" width="300"] Strengthening Jamaica’s primary health care system is a means to reducing hospitalisation, thereby relieving the burden on secondary care provided in hospitals.[/caption] KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Ministry of Health is to spend some $1.32 billion under the Health Services Improvement Project...

Police in Jamaica seize almost a billion dollars in cocaine

April 18, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_10561" align="alignleft" width="300"] Police took 35 knitted bags containing 693 cocaine-filled packages off the boat.[/caption] KINGSTON, Jamaica, Monday April 18, 2016 – Lawmen have four alleged drug runners in custody after making their second biggest cocaine bust in history over the weekend. Police seized close to...

Media again under threat in St Lucia

April 13, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_10510" align="alignleft" width="300"] Clinton Reynolds (L) and Claudius Francis[/caption] CASTRIES, St Lucia -- In a virtual rerun of a threatened lawsuit against a local broadcaster in Saint Lucia in 2013, an attorney representing Claudius Francis, the president of the senate, has written to Clinton Reynolds...