New-look Cabinet
Senator Dwight Nelson and West Portland Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz have emerged two of the big winners, while two former 'shining stars', Clive Mullings and Colonel Trevor MacMillan, were the 'losers' when Prime Minister Bruce Golding reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday...
Grandma's forever love - 77-y-o tells of her lifelong affair with books
Seventy-seven-year-old Eugenia Douglas is no ordinary septuagenarian. Douglas last year outperformed her peers in the Jamaica Library Service's reading competition and walked away with the organisation's 60th anniversary prize in the 60-and-over category....
JEF president lauds PM's pay cut but ...
While lauding Prime Minister Bruce Golding's recent move to take a 15 per cent pay cut, president of the Jamaica Employers' Federation (JEF), Wayne Chen, has indicated that Government was following the lead of the private sector rather than the suggestion ...
Shaw fulfils his 'Man-a-yard' label
Audley Shaw was the butt of many jokes when Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced that he would be supported in the finance ministry by two ministers, Senators Don Wehby and Dwight Nelson. "It will take three of them to replace me," former finance minister ...
JCTU shocked at wage freeze announcement
The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) has reacted with surprise at news that the Government has frozen public-sector salaries for this fiscal year."The JCTU has not signed off with the Government on any wage freeze for public-sector workers.
Students slam Golding's SLB plan
Some secondary-school students have described Prime Minister Bruce Golding's plans to give preferential terms to certain courses of study as unfair and say they would not be willing to change their career goals to get special treatment from the Students' Loan Bureau ...
Big demands made ahead of today's Budget
AS THE new fiscal year dawns with what is expected to be a colourful ceremonial opening of Parliament today, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) has made an eight-point demand on the Government, which it said would lead to a better Jamaica....