There is no provision in the 2010-2011 Budget for a number of entities which the Government has indicated its plans to divest. The Sugar Company of Jamaica, The Citrus Company of Jamaica, Clarendon Alumina Partners and Caymanas Track Limited...
Under increasing pressure from the Parliamentary Opposition and civil society for more information on the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips saga, the government has gone on the offensive while repeating its claim that it...
Something was missing from the ceremonial opening of Parliament yesterday. Let's see, government members? Check. Parliamentary Opposition? Ditto. Foreign diplomats, senators and other dignitaries?...
The Government is banking on traffic ticket inflows to provide a boost to its revenues this fiscal year. An examination of the 2010-2011 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday, reveals that the state is projecting...
With larger crowds expected at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships at the National Stadium today and tomorrow, organisers are assuring the public that they are serious about the matter of security...
GOVERNMENT HAS backed up its talk about an intention to build and refurbish suitable remand and correctional facilities for juveniles by allocating $174 million to the refurbishing of the Montpelier facility...
Governor General Patrick Allen yesterday declared that Jamaica has passed the worst of its challenges, as he delivered the 2010-11 Throne Speech in a sleepy ceremonial opening of Parliament."We have ridden the waves...
THE STIPULATIONS of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forced the Government to rush through the passing of a piece of legislation which fell off the Order Paper last legislative year."I have been advised by...
As promised, total debt expenditure in the Estimates of Expenditure for the upcoming fiscal year has been slashed by $121.9 billion as compared with the final projections presented in the Second Supplementary Budget...
Prisoners who escaped from the Haitian National Penitentiary before arriving in Jamaica on Tuesday will be taken into custody and returned to Haiti to face charges there, the Government has revealed....
Spiralling crime in areas just outside the Mandeville city centre has raised anxiety among residents and business leaders, who say this could hamper the development of the parish.Vice-president of Northern Caribbean...
Rodney Chin's digital recordings continued to be played during the Cuban light-bulb trial yesterday.In one recording, made in February 2008, Spencer says that what Chin...
The Ministry of Health will have $33.2 billion to spend in the new fiscal year, up from the $28.6 billion it was given in 2009-2010. However, medical personnel, hospital administrators and patients all seem to agree that this was far from what was needed ...
MORE RESOURCES to improve the chronic space shortage in primary and secondary schools and the allocation of more funds to shore up the Ministry of Education's drive to eliminate illiteracy in schools form part...
WESTERN BUREAU:Stakeholders in the town of Lucea in Hanover will have to rethink their strategy for a sewage-treatment plant, as there are no plans by the National Water Commission to undertake any such construction....
Jamaican authorities have identified three of the 62 Haitians who reached local shores on Monday as prisoners who escaped when the National Penitentiary in which they...
THE USUAL festivity associated with the ceremonial opening of Parliament might be diminished today as crowds have been advised to stay away from the immediate vicinity of Gordon House...
TWO CRITICAL pieces of legislation, arguably the most far-reaching of the measures presented for passage during the just-concluded parliamentary year...
Some primary school principals appeared confident their students were prepared for the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) which starts today.In addition to the usual extra classes, some principals have...
Athletes have already made the 100th staging of the Inter-Secondary School Sports Association (ISSA)/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships a memorable one...
Finance Minister Audley Shaw will today indicate how much money the Government plans to spend for the 2010-2011 fiscal year when he tables in Parliament the estimates of expenditure...
Twenty-three recordings of conversations between former junior minister Kern Spencer and star witness Rodney Chin were played yesterday at the Half-Way Tree Courthouse, after Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey ruled...
Sixty-two Haitians, including six children, who fled their earthquake-ravaged homeland, landed in two groups in Portland yesterday, after battling five days of rugged conditions on the sea....
The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says the slow response to the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) should have been expected because it was poorly planned and implemented. PNP Spokesperson on Youth, Lisa Hanna, charged that from the outset...
