'YEP, you can' - Golding launches lending programme for school leavers - Lowers interest rates for small, micro and medium-size businesses
Prime Minister Bruce Golding singled out high-school leavers for special attention during his contribution to the 2009-10 Budget Debate in Parliament yesterday. In announcing the Youth Entrepreneurship Programme (YEP), aimed at helping school leavers become employed...
- More than a job
- I bawled like a baby - Fray's dad
- Silence in the court - Would-be hijacker remains speechless throughout proceedings
Gleaner gives teachers a break!
As part of its salute to Jamaica's educators, a team from The Gleaner this week went into schools to take classes, giving a break to teachers.
- Reach out to a neighbour as unemployment rises
- St Catherine North busy with gun finds
- CASE president in hot water with staff
First shipment in Vulcan, Tank-Weld deal arrives
THE FIRST shipment of 5,000 tons of cement from Vulcan Materials - the largest producer of construction aggregates in the United States - arrived at the Rio Bueno port in Trelawny on Monday under a 10-year deal with Jamaican company, Tank-Weld Metals...
- Khemlani Mart to close Tropical Plaza store
- Sagicor gets negative grade from int'l rating company
- Demand for workers falls - MLSS survey
Gayle confident... Skipper says his focus is on West Indies cricket
LONDON (CMC): Chris Gayle shrugged off concerns about his form and that of West Indies team-mates ahead of their two-Test series against England. The West Indies captain was speaking on Monday after a three-hour net session on a cold afternoon at Lord's....
- West Indies look to topple distracted England
- Vengeance on Edwards' mind
- Foster looks to make his way up the grid
EDITORIAL - Cleaning up the Budget mess
When the Finance Minister Audley Shaw closes the Budget Debate, he will try to complete the effort by Prime Minister Golding yesterday, cleaning up what has been an exceedingly sloppy - amateur even - Budget process. The shame is that the time-wasting, enervating exercise...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Jamaica can't afford road-damage liabilities
The Editor, Sir: I note with interest and concern a reported call by Supreme Court Judge Ingrid Mangatal for the passing of legislation to make the Government liable for injuries to persons and damage to motor vehicles caused by the State's failure...
Gem Myers Drama, dress-up, good music at 'Motown Plus 1979'
Musically, last Saturday's Motown Plus 1979 concert at the gardens of the Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, took the fair-size audience back 30 years. Mentally, it reconnected the performers to little children who love to dress up, stand in front of the mirror...
Tanny tips the scale at 191
Life couldn't be better for Health's weight-loss challenger Tanica Plummer; she weighed in at 191 pounds at her official weight measurement session on Saturday, May 2. Though Tanny had been monitoring her weight with her own scale, she was bubbling with joy at the official...
Managing work and study
In recent years, we have seen in Jamaica a great increase in the number of local and international institutions offering part-time study options to full-time workers interested in furthering their education. According to Caroline Gatrell, author of the book...
SRI LANKA - SOS to IMF
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP): The International Monetary Fund (IMF) must insist that Sri Lanka's government respect media rights and the rule of law before granting any new lending, a press freedom group said yesterday. The Sri Lankan military's...