MENTAL-HEALTH services has been hit by the Government's tight spending for the fiscal year 2011-2012.The budgetary allocation to the country's two mental-health institutions has declined marginally.Last year, the administration allocated a little more...
After their absence from the proceedings last year, supporters from the two major political parties were back for yesterday's ceremonial opening of Parliament. A year ago, both Jamaica Labour Party and People's National Party supporters were directed...
THE GOVERNMENT has set aside $21.4 million in this year's Budget for the Manatt-Dudus commission of enquiry.At the same time, another $33.5 million has been budgeted for the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC) commission of enquiry....
IN A matter of weeks, the Bruce Golding administration will reveal how it intends to implement key recommendations to transform the public sector.The Government has also declared that it is ready to introduce the long-awaited reform of the country's tax...
The Government has set aside $6.7 billion in this year's Budget to pay contingencies, including outstanding wages and allowances to civil servants.Of that amount, $2.5 billion is budgeted to pay teachers based on an Industrial Disputes Tribunal Ruling...
The Government of Jamaica tabled an expenditure Budget of $544.721 billion in the House of Representatives yesterday. This Budget reflects above-the-line expenditure of $397.35 billion and amortisation payments...
Pastors working in some of Jamaica's tough inner-city communities say the harsh economic conditions facing the country are pushing many of their congregants to the brink of disaster, as high levels joblessness are causing hopelessness. ...
A POLICEMAN was yesterday convicted of the murder of 21-year-old Tyrone Powell, who was the road manager for entertainer Baby Cham. A Home Circuit Court jury deliberated for 40 minutes and found 32-year-old Special Corporal Vince Edwards guilty...
THE MINISTRY of Finance says the tax on high-income earners imposed by the Government last year expired on March 31 this year.Clarification on the issue comes against the background of growing concerns among accountants and payroll clerks...
THE MAN who has been in police custody for the brutal slaying of Arlene Lym and her mother, Dorothy Lym, at their St Andrew apartment complex last month, was scheduled to be released yesterday. The decision to release him, according to Senior...
The Rotary Club of Montego Bay East has secured just under $4.4 million from the Montego Bay business community to fund its scholarships for exceptional tertiary and high school students from St James faced with financial challenges.Winsome Stewart...
THE TINY Dutch dependency of St Maarten has become the latest regional state to impose visa requirements for Jamaicans.Up to late yesterday, there was no official communication with the Government of Jamaica about ...
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey yesterday ruled that a subpoena which was served on Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn ought not to be set aside."Having listened to the arguments, examined the authorities cited, and having...
DEFENCE LAWYERS for Kern Spencer and Coleen Wright yesterday fired jabs at Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, saying she is not a great prosecutor.K.D. Knight, who is representing Wright in the Cuban light-bulb corruption...
Empty desks and chairs were the order of the day at Charlie Smith High School in Trench Town, St Andrew, yesterday as classes were suspended to protest against thefts, which have been a plague on the school community....
MANDEVILLE, Manchester:KEITH SMITH, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, has cautioned the Government to "go easy on taxation" and, instead, pursue a "fiscal and monetary" policy that encourages growth.
Anxious public-sector employees clamouring for the Government to pay them outstanding wages should find out today if they will be paid this fiscal year. Finance Minister Audley Shaw will this afternoon table in Parliament the Estimates of Expenditure for the 2011-2012 fiscal year...
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has reiterated his backing of his outspoken and often controversial minister with responsibility for information and technology, Daryl Vaz.According to Golding, Vaz is the type of Cabinet minister needed in every...
BOG WALK, St. Catherine: DELANO SEIVERIGHT has charged that many Jamaicans have failed to integrate educational attainment into real life solutions, critical to effective leadership and job performance.
EIGHT PRIMARY and all-age schools in rural areas across Jamaica are to benefit from new equipment and computer software that will enable them to combat illiteracy and low numeracy skills.The schools were all provided...
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine: MICHAEL JONES of the Spanish Town Infirmary danced up a storm recently while singing Bob Marley's Three Little Birds."A so man fi sing and dance when music lick yuh bone.
THE AIR was filled with laughter, the tables were set and dinner was aptly prepared, as the Hi-Lo Food Stores family gathered at The Knutsford Court hotel in St Andrew to partake in their annual awards dinner.The joyous...
THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says it has not shelved plans to take to the streets if the Government does not respond with a more meaningful tax-reduction package in the upcoming Budget exercise.Retreating from its planned protest ...
Jamaica Producers Group Limited and Pan Jamaican Investment Trust Limited have been selected as the preferred bidders for the purchase of the Mavis Bank Coffee Factory Limited, Milverton Reynolds, managing director of the Development Bank of Jamaica...
LIME, Jamaica's only full-service telecoms company, has once again provided a sponsorship package valued at over $1 million for National Child Month, which will be observed in May.The sponsorship, will help to underwrite the cost of the month's full...
