The government and the union representing workers at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), have signed a proposal to make the positions of 340 workers redundant.
The Broadcasting Commission has taken action against News Talk 93 FM for transmitting what it calls derogatory and abusive comments by a presenter at the radio station.
Jamaicans will be given an opportunity to interact with the Prime Minister this evening during his new one-hour radio call-in programme, ‘Jamaica House Live’ .
Investigators are expected by tomorrow to charge a man who has been in custody, for more than a week, in connection with several murders in Rockfort, East Kingston.
Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, wants the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), to clarify its position on the public service salary negotiations.
A former member of the Public Service Commission (PSC), Dr. Alfred Sangster is supporting the Prime Minister’s decision to recommend the dismissal of the five-member body.
Representatives of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) are seeking to have the management of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), maintain a two year wage contract for some workers at the entity.
