Saving jobs - Salary cuts, social partnership to be considered as unions and employers try to prevent massive job losses
WITH JAMAICA facing the possibility of massive job cuts, trade unionists and employers are poised for an unprecedented level of cooperation in an attempt to minimise the impact.

... Till death (Divorce)do us part - Women under age 25 comprise more than 50% of all divorces
YOUNG WOMEN under 25 years old outnumber all other age groups petitioning for divorce. Between 2002 and 2006, this group comprised more than 50 per cent of all divorces in Jamaica.

Transparency needed in public-board changes
THE RECENT spate of public-sector board firings and resignations has revealed that Government and some board members have not been singing from the same songbook.A total of three boards have had their composition altered since...

UNICEF report findings flawed - Samms-Vaughan
Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan is rejecting research findings published by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) implying that gender-biased child-rearing practices might be contributing to learning and mental...

Tourism players brace for impact of financial crisis
Western Bureau: TOURISM-ATTRACTION managers are bracing for challenging times ahead and have begun to restructure their operations to face the impact of a possible global financial crisis of the sustainability of the...

Vasciannie has several cards on the deck
PRINCIPAL OF the Norman Manley Law School (NMLS), professor Stephen Vasciannie, says expanding registration and getting the institution involved in national legal issues will be priorities of his tenure.

It's OK to be single, say spinsters
WHILE MANY younger Jamaican women are eagerly making and breaking marriage vows, there are others, often older, who have decided that marriage is something to be avoided.Their reasons...

Can 'singletons' be happy?
Life without a life partner can be a happy one, according to Kingston-based counselling psychologist H. Grace Muftizade.