Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (JAMAICA GLEANER).-Children may be in for a surprise when they visit the Hope Zoo this weekend, as 10 squirrel monkeys arrived on the island from Guyana on Thursday. Kenneth Benjamin, executive chairman of the Guardsman Group, announced this at the Rotary Club of Kingston’s weekly luncheon which was staged at ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The Chief Executive Officer of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Ramesh Ghir on Saturday expressed disappointment at concerns raised by Fly Jamaica earlier in the day about the movement of drugs through the airport. Fly Jamaica’s executive, Roxanne Reece has called for a secure, efficient and more reliable system ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Fly Jamaica intends to survive competition by using tourism-related events to maintain a constant passenger load, a top airline official here said Saturday. “We are not just sitting and waiting on passengers to come to us. We are coming out there and we are offering you different events in our ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia In the wake of concerns by stallholders, the decrepit Kitty Market is to be demolished in the coming weeks but there is no idea when it will be rebuilt. Town Clerk, Carol Sooba said plans are being made to identify accommodation on Kitty Public Road to relocate the vendors before ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Although the International Coastal Cleanup exercise continues to rake in tons of garbage along Guyana’s shoreline each year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that the activity is slowly winning hearts and minds. Hundreds of persons, including students and adults, participated in the ICC exercise at the Georgetown seawall on ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Suriname’s President, Desi Bouterse was allegedly in close contact with convicted Guyanese drug baron, Shaheed “Roger” Khan while he was a parliamentarian, the Dutch publication NRC Handelsblad reported on Saturday. The NRC says the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has hard evidence that “President Desi Bouterse in the period ...