IMF talks - Shaw says discussions pre-emptive
Jamaica has begun talks with the International Monetary Fund on a credit facility, but the island's finance minister, Audley Shaw, says that the discussions are merely pre-emptive to ensure that the country has an inside track should borrowing from the fund really becomes necessary.
Appeals of blind faith - Institution rocked by economic hardship
"The worst thing is to be born sighted, but to lack vision." This statement by Helen Keller, written on the front wall of the building of the Jamaica Society for the Blind (JSB), sums up the work of the 55-year-old...
Fix education and you fix crime, Waite declares
Fixing Jamaica's problem-racked education system is critical to solving the Caribbean nation's ballooning crime woes, Opposition Spokesman on Education, Senator Basil Waite, has said."I am of the view that as a country Jamaica's best days are ahead of...
Women, children feeling
effects of climate change
The lives of women and children are particularly being affected by the growing problem of climate change, a United Nations official has warned.Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations' Develop-ment Programme (UNDP),...
Institute of Ja head wants more visitors
Vivian Crawford stands in a gallery full of exhibits but empty of visitors. As the executive director of the institute, it saddens him that there are not more people who come to experience what the institute has to offer.
Walker eases book stalemate
COMMISSIONER OF Customs Danville Walker yesterday gave instructions for books currently on the wharves to be cleared under the existing rules until the new guidelines for general consumption tax (GCT) on books are...
Police probe alleged suicide
In less than a month, the police have again been called to investigate another alleged suicide at the Kingston Waterfront.An unidentified man who is believed to be in his early 70s was fished from the water by the Marine...
Spike in road deaths this year
THE ROAD Safety Unit (RSU) is reporting that since the start of the year there has been a sharp increase in the number of persons killed in accidents involving private motor vehicles.According to the RSU, fatalities have increased by 47 per cent this...
OUR talks on JPS tariff review extended
THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) has decided to host a fifth public consultation on the application from the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) for a tariff review.The regulatory body had initially said it would stage four public consultations...
JPS strikes back
THE JAMAICA Public Service Company Limited (JPS) says it is now using strike-force operations to remove illegal connections, in the form of throw-ups, on power lines.A press release from the JPS yesterday said the light and power company was investing...