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/REPEAT/ COMMUNICATIONS-JAMAICA: Former Monopoly Creaks under Weight of Competition
Under threat of competition for the first time in its 100 year history in Jamaica, telecommunications giant Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) went on a blitz to sign up new customers with attractive offers of lower price and improved quality for its cellular services.COMMUNICATIONS-JAMAICA: Former Monopoly Creaks under Weight of Competition
Under threat of competition for the first time in its 100 year history in Jamaica, telecommunications giant Cable and Wireless Jamaica (C&WJ) went on a blitz to sign up new customers with attractive offers of lower price and improved quality for its cellular services.ENVIRONMENT-CARIBBEAN: Jamaican Bauxite Mines Restored to Farming
For many Jamaicans, life near a bauxite mine is a matter of noise, dust, and the agony of being forced from land that has been in the family for generations only to see it scarred - seemingly for life.ECONOMY-CARIBBEAN: Jamaica Confronts Power Shortage
Jamaica's recently privatised electric utility says it plans to increase supply to businesses and consumers crippled by daily power outages.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Homosexuals Face Uphill Struggle for Legal Protection
Leroy will never forget the beating he got from neighbours when he was 14 years old. Now a 26-year-old professional chef, he recalls how he and another boy had been caught having sex.ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT: Jamaican Conch Fisheries Reopen
Jamaican fishers have begun to apply for permits to harvest conch for the first time since the 20-million- dollar industry fell prey in 1999 to deadlock over environmental protection.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Homosexuals Face Uphill Struggle for Legal Protection
Leroy will never forget the beating he got from neighbours when he was 14 years old. Now a 26-year-old professional chef, he recalls how he and another boy had been caught having sex.POPULATION-JAMAICA: Children Help Children to Improve Their Lives
May is Child Month in Jamaica and children are among those who are trying to make a difference in their community.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Amnesty International Report False, Says Government Pathologist
Government officials continue to blast an Amnesty International (AI) report into the police killing of seven men here on Mar. 14 which has resulted in an international campaign to force the Percival Patterson administration to review its human rights record.DEVELOPMENT: Sugarcane Farmers Worried About Future of Industry
People's National Party (PNP) parliamentarian Charles Learmond is anticipating a huge shake-up in the ailing sugar industry that could cost 90 percent of his constituents their livelihoods.
An Uphill Battle against Climate Change
The island nations of the Caribbean fear rising sea levels, coastal erosion and the contamination of aquifers with salt water - all caused by climate change.RIGHTS-JAMAICA: Reporter in Thick of Controversy Over Extrajudicial Killings
"It's my job, nothing more," is all Claude Mills will say, on the record. The reporter whose story led to Amnesty International's (AI) becoming involved in the case of seven young men killed here on Mar. 14 is insistent there is nothing more to say. He believes he has done his job, that all he did was write a story that his editors believed worthy of a by-line.ENVIRONMENT-JAMAICA: Bauxite Mining Blamed for Deforestation
A land use and forest cover study to determine the rate of deforestation and to kick-start a forestry conservation programme here has revealed that bauxite mining is the single largest contributor to deforestation in Jamaica.DEVELOPMENT-JAMAICA: Water Woes Hit Capital City
When the state owned National Water Commission (NWC) announced here recently that water restrictions would include daily lock-offs in Kingston and St. Andrew, it never made a difference to the people of D'Aguilar Road.ENVIRONMENT-JAMAICA: Fight to Save Long Mountain Continues
Success does not taste too sweet for John Maxwell these days. In 1999, the veteran journalist single-handedly thwarted the Jamaican government's efforts to build houses at Hope, the nation's oldest and best known botanical gardens.JAMAICA: Women’s Groups Feeling Hard Times Too
Afolashade is facing the "toughest time of her life". At 44 years old and in what she considers "her old age", she is for the first time ever dependent on a man for her day to day existence.« Previous Page
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