Keeping heart - Family sticks to guns despite tightening finances in a global recession
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw's job of crafting and managing a national Budget is difficult. But have you ever stopped to wonder how many ordinary Jamaicans, without technical guidance, consultants and expertise, manage when they are forced to weave fashionable ...
- Holy Family gets behind Ashley - Gunshot victim's mother thanks school for support
- New parliament building still on
- Golding urges trade unions to back off - Prime minister says wage demands could force thousands out of work
A heart for art - Schoolgirl draws on passion for creativity
Nickiesha Allen, a fifth-form student at Tarrant High School, is on her way to a career in the visual arts. Allen is the school's top achiever in art and has won two trophies and certificates at Jamaica Cultural Development Commission...
- The fortunes of Lucky Hill
- EPA forum for businesses to take place in Kingston
- Cabinet cuts not enough, says PNP
BoJ signals interest rate policy shift
At first blush, the 133 basis point cut on a single open market instrument of six in the central bank's arsenal seems a token concession to corporate Jamaica which wants interest rates to be cut. But yesterday analysts polled by the Financial Gleaner suggested ...
- 2009/10 budget - CAP, Sugar Company get billions in government subsidy - Air Jamaica turns to the market
- Government spending at a glance - New Budget implies larger revenue package, wage freeze
- Jamaica unwavering on offshore centre plan - Project funds grow seven-fold in new Budget
CONCACAF challenge for Burrell
Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president, Captain Horace Burrell, will be facing a challenge for the position he now holds as a member of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Associations of Football (CONCACAF) Executive Committee...
EDITORIAL - Grappling with debt and a bloated public sector
As everyone knew, and as Finance Minister Audley Shaw confirmed in the expenditure estimates he presented to Parliament this week, the Government has little room within which to manoeuvre with regard to its spending...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Reality sets in
The Editor, Sir: The economic outlook over the last 18 months has not been favourable as the world economy has plunged into recession and no one knows how long it will last. This Government's saving grace is to blame the current crisis ...
Original Wailers make it St Lucia
THE ORIGINAL Wailers, featuring guitarists Junior Marvin and Al Anderson, are one of the main acts for the May 2-10 St Lucia Jazz Festival.The band is one of two units with former members of Bob Marley's band currently touring.
Shake it up, Bailey's for Easter
Bailey's is a favourite drink for women but did you know it can be used in some yummy recipes too? Try these exciting recipes for your Easter weekend parties....
Taking Brussels by fashionable storm
It used to be that the upper-classes could not wait to get out of the city for bank-holiday weekends as they headed in droves to their north-coast hideaways.Now fewer and fewer of the social elite are venturing out of the city over the holiday periods...
Bouteflika looks to third term
Algeria (AP): Algerians are looking largely with frustration or indifference towards a presidential election today, which is set to hand Abdelaziz Bouteflika another five years at the helm of this US ally with vast gas reserves, soaring youth...