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 Light bill cut - JPS announces further reduction as oil prices fallCustomers of the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) can expect to see at least a 15 per cent reduction in their energy bills at the end of this month if their usage is consistent with last month.The JPS says the ease comes as the price of fuel… More: continued here Promotions in Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) ranksThe Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has announced that 129 gazetted officers have been promoted effective December 1, 2008, but the minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, says it is too soon… More: continued here Long recession without quick action, warns ObamaWASHINGTON (AP): United States President-elect Barack Obama yester-day said the deepening American recession could stretch years into the future if Congress fails to act quickly on his call to pump hundreds of billions of federal dollars into the nation’s economy… More: continued here Shaggy and Friends raise $27m for children’s hospitalAs Dr Lambert Innis, head of the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Bustamante Hospital for Children, approached the microphone to address the media gathered at the hospital yesterday, Orville ‘Shaggy’ Burrell shouted from the back of the room… More: continued here Cop, baby injured in St Ann police shootingOCHO RIOS, St Ann: The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is today expected to present the police commissioner with a preliminary report into an incident in which a baby, a cop and three others were shot by the police in Lodge, St Ann, on Wednesday night… More: continued here Frenchman rides into JamaicaPainted canvases of worldly rocks beguile a mounted adventurer. This is the curiosity of Thierry Posty, an unbridled French cowboy and adventurer who has made a vow to himself to see every colour of the world on the back of his horse. His journey has finally brought him… More: continued here The tale of a US couple’s accidental trip to CubaTAMPA, Florida (AP) Robert Vassallo and Angellette Smith had been battered by waves for two days when a final surge sent their boat crashing into a reef off the western coast of Cuba.They had set sail from Key West in their 38-foot (12-metre) sailboat… More: continued here Francis Keane hospitalisedFrancis Keane, the doyen in fashion designing in Jamaica, is seriously ill in hospital. Her husband Dudley, who was in a room next to hers at the same hospital, battling his own illness, lost that battle. He died on January 2… More: continued here  Powered by FireStats |