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...