In early 2018, the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) was getting ready to engage a company to procure specialised materials for the construction of a new $701-million, three-storey student block at its main campus in east Kingston. Around the...more..
Despite the training and deployment of 45 tourism district constables to Negril in 2017, specifically to curtail harassment and prevent soliciting, drug peddlers and other hustlers continue to operate with impunity along the seven-mile beach strip...more..
CARICOM Chairman and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has drawn a clear line between herself and Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness and other Caribbean leaders planning to meet with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, criticising...more..
WESTERN BUREAU: Four of five persons who were travelling from Portland to Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay were killed yesterday morning in a horrific mid-morning traffic collision along the Falmouth leg of the North Coast Highway,...more..
Anglican Archbishop of the West Indies, the Reverend Dr Howard Gregory, said that everything should be done to safeguard the credibility of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), as well as its programmes, warning that “it may be necessary for...more..
There are renewed calls for the Ministry of Tourism to train and license itinerant vendors to allow them to legally sell on the Negril beach. The outcry comes from hoteliers against the background of perennial wide-scale harassment and drug...more..
An emergency meeting has been called for this week for members of the Caribbean Maritime University Council to discuss a deepening crisis at the scandal-scarred institution. This comes amid the reported resignation of four persons from the council...more..
Founding member of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), J. Paul Morgan, has died. Morgan, who served in the capacity of deputy director general of the organisation before ascending to the rank of director general, had more than 40 years of...more..
The resignations have begun to come in from members of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) Council, inside sources have revealed. The council is the body that presides over the affairs of the scandal-scarred university. According to the...more..
Allegations have surfaced in the British press that the ‘prestigious’ International Socrates Award bestowed on industry leaders and persons who have gained significant achievements in academia, particularly in developing countries, and including...more..
