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Scotiabank is reducing its base lending rate and introducing another productive sector growth fund as a further means of bolstering economic recovery in Jamaica. In a media release yesterday, Scotiabank said effective May 1, it will reduce its base...

TAXI DRIVERS in St Ann are urging the Government to completely remove the tax on gasolene for operators in order to help them cope with spiralling costs.At the same time, several drivers have said the recently announced...

DANCEHALL ARTISTE Carlton 'Spragga Benz' Grant is claiming to be a victim of a conspiracy to smear his reputation.Grant, who has been named by the police as a person of interest arising out...

CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie has made yet another call for a more aggressive approach in the fight against corruption.He has urged Jamaicans to demand decisive and urgent action to that end. Using the example of the Indian government's recent arrest...

The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) has made an appeal to the business sector to support the population census now under way. The appeal by PSOJ President, Joseph M. Matalon, comes in the wake of revelations by the Statistical Institute...

PORT MARIA, St Mary:JEFFREY TOWN Health Centre in St Mary celebrated its one-year anniversary with a mini-health fair last week.Blood-pressure checks, HIV and cancer screening, body-mass index, and immunisation were some of the free health services...

Dr Shane Alexis, president of the Jamaica Medical Doctors' Association, is raising concerns that a shortage of facilities and personnel to care for children with developmental disorders has left some unable to realise their full potential....

AS HE shared his story, George became adamant that Canadian employers have no regard for Jamaican farmers who toil on their farms for months at a time, sometimes during winter.

Jamaica's dispute with Barbados over the alleged ill-treatment of 20-year-old Shanique Myrie could be headed to the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

Education Minister Andrew Holness has underscored his Government's pledge to implement a safe transportation system for the nation's children.

The government is being urged to find more money for the fight against HIV/AIDS despite a $98-million increase in allocation for for the HIV Prevention and Control Programme this fiscal year.

WE ARE unconvinced that it was necessary for the Opposition to walk out of Parliament when it did last Wednesday. There was no justification, in our minds, for Portia Simpson Miller, the leader of the Opposition, to have taken up her belongings and lead the opposition members out of the sitting of the Standing Finance Committee at that time.