ROSE HALL, St James:Eight retired principals and vice-principals were honoured by the Association of Principals and Vice-Principals last Thursday for their contribution to Jamaica's education system.
BENBOW, Guy's Hill:Eighty farmers in seven north St Catherine communities have been selected as beneficiaries of a $43-million project funded under the European Union Banana Support Programme (EUBSP), supported by the...
AT LEAST two members of the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) committee of Parliament have said that the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) should be prevented from taking part in the evaluation meetings...
THE PRESS Association of Jamaica (PAJ) on Wednesday activated its advisory council which is mandated to respond to overt or covert threats to press freedom or related issues.Such issues, according to the media watchdog...
Two Jamaica Defence Force soldiers who were charged this week in connection with the murder of one of the five men who were shot in Tivoli Gardens, west Kingston, in January 2008, have been freed. Director of Public...
THE lens of the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) is now being focused on a million-dollar Constituency Development Fund (CDF) project in which People's National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament Natalie Neita-Headley had breached the fund's rules in 2008....
WESTERN BUREAU: Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) is considering a plan to outsource Air Jamaica's ramp operations and cargo services in the tourism capital Montego Bay, St James, The Gleaner has learned....
Torrential rains associated with Tropical Storm Richard are expected to continue lashing sections of the island until later today. The Meteorological Service said yesterday that the centre of the tropical storm was projected to remain southwest...
Audley Shaw, minister of finance and the public service, is insisting that the Government will have to consider job cuts if public-sector workers insist that their seven per cent wage increases are to be met."If we insist that everybody must get their...
THIS TIME of the year, business usually slows, but the recession has made things even worse. Still the Milk River Hotel and Spa, located along Jamaica's south coast in Clarendon, is holding its own, according to General Manager Diane Sommerville.
Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey is to rule on November 15 whether the case against former junior minister Kern Spencer and his former assistant, Coleen Wright, will be thrown out. The RM reserved her ruling yesterday...
EXPRESSING ALARM at a scathing broadside against the local media on Tuesday from chairman of Parliament's Constituency Development (CDF) committee, Everald Warmington, the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) has called on Prime Minister Bruce Golding...
Hottest topics on the cocktail circuit - Where's the review? 1.After reviewing the list of this year's recipients, some are asking what happened to the much-promised overhaul and review of the process.
A shortage of pathologists and Jamaica's dependence on migrants to fill the vacuum has stirred the anger of a high-ranking judge, who called for a campaign to woo local doctors to enter the field and ease chronic court...
ST AUBYN BARTLETT, member of parliament for Eastern St Andrew, who on Tuesday unequivocally supported claims by Everald Warmington that media reports on the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) were inaccurate and should be construed as "gutterism", last week described...
MANDEVILLE, Manchester: Developers and other persons who might be contemplating constructing major housing facilities in Manchester were last week put on notice that water will not be available to them...
Despite industrial action by some public-sector groups and the threat of protest action by others, government workers will have have to wait a while longer for the seven per cent increase they are owed....
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given Finance Minister Audley Shaw the green light to add almost $7 billion to the Budget for this fiscal year. The additional money is to deal with the repair of infrastructure damaged by flood rains associated...
WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaica's National Strategic Plan (NSP) to curtail the transmission of HIV/STI could be jolted by the possible withdrawal of funding by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria....
IN A threat against the media, chairman of the select committee examining expenditure relating to the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), Everald Warmington, yesterday told his colleagues that they could bring a resolution...
The Ministry of Education has condemned the robbery, at gunpoint, of a teacher's vehicle at the Ensom City Primary School in St Catherine yesterday morning.
