Generation 2000 (G2k) the young professional arm of the JLP is to set up a monitoring committee to evaluate the government’s implementation of its manifesto promises.
Member of Parliament for Central Kingston, Ronald Thwaites is calling for legislative changes to help in tracking delinquent recipients of students’ loans from the state.
The People’s National Party (PNP) hierarchy is rejecting claims that the embattled former State Minister for Energy, Kern Spencer, has been asked to resign from the party over the light bulb saga.
An 11 year old girl is believed to have committed suicide after she was found hanging by a piece of cloth from a tree at her home in Hanover yesterday.
The tax administration department is warning owners of businesses that failure to meet the March 15 deadline for the payment of income tax returns could result in penalties.
The communities in Spanish Town, St. Catherine that were without regular water supplies due to a strike action by fortnightly workers at the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), are expected to have their service restored today.
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, said tourism figures have escalated since the start of the year despite the expected recession in the United States.
A team of Japanese engineers from Tokyo Electric Power Company are in the island, assessing the transmission and distribution operations of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS).
The Grants Pen Police believe arson was the cause of a fire, which destroyed the second floor of a two-storey building at Upper Waterloo Road, Kingston 8 yesterday.
The Ministry of Labour is continuing discussions with management team of the St. Catherine branch of the National Irrigation Commission (NIC), in an effort to resolve a dispute between fortnightly paid workers.