'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
Teaching is more than a job, it is a calling. So says Andrew Holness, minister of education, in his message saluting the island's educators on this Teachers' Day. Holness said teachers have the duty to impart knowledge and to nurture...
I bawled like a baby - Fray's dad
AT 10:30 p.m. p.m. on April 19, Earl Fray says he got troubling news that the man behind the attempted hijack of a CanJet flight at Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport was Stephen Fray, the youngest of his three children...
Silence in the court - Would-be hijacker remains speechless throughout proceedings
WESTERN BUREAU: Staring nine counts of illegal possession of a firearm, shooting with intent and robbery with aggravation in the face, accused attempted hijacker Stephen Fray wasn't about to look at any of the two judges in court yesterday...
Surviving terror - Firebombed Grants Pen residents recount night of hell; 85-y-o slain
It was 30 minutes of terror which the survivors will never forget. The smell of gasolene, the gunfire, the burning buildings and the screams of an 85-year-old neighbour will live in their memories forever. Yesterday, the survivors sat in shock in front of premises on Oddman Lane...
Burnt Bible strengthens faith
Forty-two-year-old Mary Brown* lost most of her material possessions during Tuesday morning's ordeal at her home in Oddman Lane, Grants Pen, St Andrew. But one item which survived the blaze was her Bible and she believes that is proof that her Christian...
Another tax protest fizzles
A police team which was there to ensure order far outnumbered demonstrators at the National Heroes Park yesterday as another tax protest flopped. Exactly one week after attempts of street protest did not gain traction, the lobby, Campaign For Social...
IMF, here we come - Prime minister points to the real possibility of returning to lending agency as finances tighten
AN ASSESSMENT yesterday by Prime Minister Bruce Golding of the probability of Jamaica returning to a borrowing relationship with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggested that the question Jamaicans should be asking is, how soon?...
Student-loan interest rates plunge
GOVERNMENT HAS announced a dramatic reduction in the interest rates charged to students studying certain disciplines in tertiary institutions.Prime Minister Bruce Golding said yesterday that the list of disciplines would soon be announced...
What I would do with the ministry's offer
Students respond to Golding's plan to provide loans for school leavers. In light of the Government's decision to make loans available to students leaving school this year, The Gleaner yesterday spoke with fifth and sixth-formers in western Jamaica about...
Tax talk more - Call for GCT hike on cellphone time
The Jamaica Computer Society (JCS) is proposing that Government consider increasing the tax on prepaid and post-paid cellphone talktime by five per cent to compensate for the proposed general consumption tax (GCT) on imported computers, computer parts and accessories...
Archbishop urges Church to reach out to downtrodden
The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Dr Rowan Williams, on his first visit to Jamaica as head of the Anglican Communion, has urged the island's churches to establish themselves as God's extended arm to all humanity. "We should do that by asking...
Court overturns cop's conviction in shooting case
A policeman who was convicted in July 2007 of unlawful wounding and sentenced to 18 months' imprison-ment has been freed by the Court of Appeal. Constable Everton Roberts had his conviction quashed and his sentence set aside because the court found many flaws ...