Jamaica News

1991 Honda Most Stolen Vehicle

For 2005, the most stolen vehicle in the nation was the 1991 Honda Accord, according to Hot Wheels, the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s companion study to its annual Hot Spots auto theft report. The study examines data reported to the …

Comp Administrator First Cardinal Adds Staff at N.Y. Headquarters

Workers compensation administrator First Cardinal LLC has hired several new employees at its Latham, N.Y. headquarters. Stacy Anuszewski, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., has joined the claims department as claims representative. A graduate of the College of St. Rose in Albany, …

UPDATE 1: Hurricane Ernesto Menaces Haiti, Cuba; Florida in Storm’s Path

As of 11:00 am EDT, when the National Hurricane Center in Miami issued its latest bulletin, Tropical Storm Ernesto had become a Category 1 hurricane, the first of the current season. The hurricane’s center was located near latitude 17.6 north/longitude …

TS Ernesto Threatens Gulf; Could Become Season’s First Hurricane

Miami’s National Hurricane Center is currently tracking Tropical Storm Ernesto as it enters the Gulf of Mexico. As of 11:00 a.m. EDT the storm’s center was located near latitude 15.1 north/longitude 71.2 west or about 250 miles-405 kms south-southwest of …

IDB Contracts with ABS Corporate Solutions/EQECAT for Cat Project

ABS Corporate Solutions, and its affiliate EQECAT, Inc. announced that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has signed a contract for a catastrophic risk analysis project focusing on Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru and Jamaica. “The analysis will be used to develop risk …

Big Dig Tragedy Expected to Trigger New Wave of Litigation

When the family of the Jamaica Plain, Mass. woman who was killed when part of the ceiling in a Boston Big Dig tunnel fell gets around to filing a wrongful death lawsuit, that suit is expected to trigger legal fights …

Mass. Liquor JUA Rewards Training Security Staff, Not Just Servers

The Liquor Liability Joint Underwriting Association of Massachusetts (LLJUA) and a security training company are teaming up to transform security staff into trained professionals in what is believed to be the first program of its kind in the northeast. To …

S.W. Florida Anxiously Watching As Hurricane Wilma Approaches Cancun

Floridians living in the south tier of the state, in the Keys, on the southern west coast as far north as Tampa, and in Miami, are closely watching Hurricane Wilma slow its forward speed to 5 mph, and wind-speed drop …

UPDATE: Wilma “A Catastrophic Category Five Hurricane;” Lowest Pressure Ever Recorded

Hurricane Wilma, the 12th of the season, has become “a catastrophic category five hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale” states the latest bulletin from Miami’s National Hurricane Center. In less than 24 hours Wilma, which the NHC described as a Category …

Hurricane Watch Issued for Cayman Islands; Storm May Impact U.S.

After a slight lull in the Atlantic hurricane season, things may be heating up again. A hurricane watch was in effect for the Cayman Islands as a tropical depression churned through the Atlantic on a path that may threaten the …