WITH MORE than 3,000 traffic fatalities since January 2001, govern-ment officials plan to get tough on traffic offenders with tech-savvy surveillance cameras.Up to July 8, 183 road users were killed in fatal collisions, just two shy of the death toll...

TWO OF the three family members who were convicted in October 2001 for murdering their neighbour over ackee leaves which had fallen on to their property have been freed by the United Kingdom Privy Council. The other man, Addis Jackson,

WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Bruce Golding has appointed controversial Resident Magistrate Marlene Malahoo-Forte a senator and minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Malahoo-Forte, who will be sworn in at King's House...

Residents in Portmore, the still-growing densely populated St Catherine community, have expressed concern about a wave of break-ins this year.Data from the statistical unit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force show 119 cases of break-ins occurred last year....

Twenty-one students - 12 boys and nine girls - graduated from Iona Preparatory School in Tower Isle, St Mary, on June 30. They head for Munro, Knox, Westwood, St Hilda's, Ferncourt, York Castle, Ocho Rios, St Mary and Iona high

JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill has offered to meet the Lockerbie bomber in prison as he decides if the convicted mass murderer ought to be allowed home to Libya.

HOUSEHOLD energy bills could rise by more than £200 a year under the government's low-carbon strategy which will be unveiled this week.

AMR Research taps Penn State, Michigan State as top two

Eight new appointments

Trade surplus was $8.2 billion for June

GDP growth could exceed 7% this year.

Will introduce the CR-Z hybrid sports utility vehicle in February 2010 in Japan

Tesla is the first manufacturer of vehicles able to operate over long distances with the 'Model S' sportscar having a range of around 360 kilometers (225 miles) per charge.

Sales down 19%

Chairman says he'll be more active than most chairmen as 'we have to pay the government back'

PLASTIC surgery is now the most sharply rising wedding expense, up 20 per cent year on year, with boob jobs the first choice of mothers of the bride, according to Brides magaz

EVERY year thousands of Scottish-Americans bring the Manhattan traffic to a standstill when they march up 6th Avenue. Accompanied by pipe bands, drummers, clans and pipers, th

WHEN a 20-strong party of Scottish IT company executives touch down in New Orleans today, it will not be the still highly visible effects of Hurricane Katrina, four years on,

IT WAS supposed to send tremors through the banking world and herald a new era under which the risky actions of a few would never again be allowed to bring Britain's econo

OIL up or oil down - why is it always gloom? Which is it that should cause us to wring our hands - the oil price going up? Or the oil price going down?