Jobs under threat - Labour minister says companies planning to send home hundreds - Points to global economic meltdown as cause of problems
An impending wave of job cuts triggered by the slowdown of the global economy has spurred Jamaica's Labour Minister Pearnel Charles to schedule a meeting with trade unions next week to head off the developing crisis. According to Charles, several companies...
Gordon House moved to tears - Foreigner laments role in daughter's abortion
TEARS FLOWED freely in Gordon House yesterday during a gripping presentation by a foreigner, now living in Jamaica, who recounted a tale of how she forced her daughter to carry out an abortion. She has been haunted by the grave decision...
- Amnesty: Death penalty not best for Jamaica
- Jamaican heads int'l criminal tribunal
- Green clarifies media utterances on alert system
$1.5b loss hits JP - But Hall promises better times ahead
Weighed down by another big gush of red ink in the third quarter, Jamaica Producers Group (JP) has reported a $1.5 billion loss for the 10 months to the first week of October, but the company's CEO, Jeffrey Hall, insists that shareholders can look forward...
- US$60m reform loan for Jamaica
- It's a loan, says Port Authority - Royal Caribbean to be repaid US$102m investment in Falmouth pier
- Fitch aligns NCB credit rating with Jamaica's
Don't blame me - Burrell - JFF boss says Boyz' failure to qualify was Simoes' fault
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), Captain Horace Burrell, has come out firing back at critics, saying that the failure of the Reggae Boyz to qualify for the final round of the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying was not in the hiring of professor René Simoes ...
EDITORIAL - Vote no, MPs
THIRTY YEARS ago, with Parliament, and Jamaicans broadly, similarly exercised about the issue of capital punishment, the advice of Dudley Thompson was to put the rope "where it belongs". Which was "under the necks" of convicted criminals.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Until the law is amended the penalty is hanging
THE EDITOR, Sir: JUSTICE IS served when the punishment fits the crime. Indeed, it is a little bit more than that. Our topical crime is murder and the topical penalty is death. Given our existing policy framework, it would appear that the overwhelming majority...
The dragon's eternal flame
The Dragon may have taken his last breath, but the musical flame he ignited more than 50 years ago is eternal. Byron Lee's music transcended guitars, drums and revellers and was an impetus for social unification...
Canadian women enjoy fashion, coffee
On Tuesday, members of the Canadian Women's Club of Jamaica met for a morning of coffee and fashion at the Canadian High Commission, Seymour Avenue in St Andrew.