Budget day blues - No pocket to be spared in closing tax gap
Jamaicans are being warned to brace for a big tax package - that could include a special levy on gasolene - as Finance Minister Audley Shaw moves to close a $55-billion financing gap in his budget. Shaw tabled a $548-billion budget in Parliament a fortnight ago...
- Prime minister pleads for calm - Golding confirms new tax package to be announced today
- VOX POP
- Traumatised woman unable to sit exam
Holness pushes for more competent principals
REPRESENTATIVES of the island's principal associations have renewed their call for minimum standards to be applied in the education system before the ministry goes ahead with plans to address leadership issues in schools...
- Cornwall College, Immaculate nab top Earth Day competition prizes
- KC old boys give back to teachers
- Prefects association to help with school safety
Contractor general defends report on Air Jamaica's Heathrow sale
CONTRACTOR GENERAL Greg Christie is refusing to back down from statements he made in his 196-page report of investigation into the divestment of Air Jamaica's London Heathrow slots, despite sharp criticisms from two major players in the controversial...
Jamaicans to unleash track power at Penns
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania: EDWIN Allen High School's Nikita Tracey is set to give the Jamaican contingent a flying start, when she competes in the girls' 400 metres hurdles on today's opening day of the 115th Penn Relays, at the University of Pennsylvania at Franklin...
- Burrell calls for unity out west
- Taylor cops MVP award
- Nattie hoping to make the difference at Majesty Gardens
EDITORIAL - We can't hide from depression
No one as yet knows for sure, but the anecdotal information, so far, is that Stephen Fray was a troubled young man, probably suffering from depression.If that is indeed the case, Stephen Fray may not be singular; not too different from many Jamaican young men...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Make crime unpopular and unprofitable
The Editor, Sir:John Mahfood made a strong statement on national security in your Friday paper. If he had to condense his statement, it could read: "The nation feels helpless, hopeless, fearful and frustrated...
- Alarmist view on nuclear reactors
- Tell US athletes: No, thanks
- Strengthen schools by strengthening families
Hall of Fame nod for Jimmy Cliff?
While researching the career of Jimmy Cliff a year ago, Charles Earle was surprised that the reggae superstar was not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For him, it was a wrong that needed to be corrected. The 42-year-old Birmingham, Alabama, native started his campaign...
Champion chefs now in Norway
Joint first place winners of the Seafood from Norway Culinary Challenge 2009, Colin Hylton, Guilt Trip and Anthony Miller, Couples Swept Away Negril, left the island last Saturday April 18, for Norway, Europe, in fulfilment of the grand prize they...