Plugging the hole - $6b gap in Budget to be filled with more borrowing
The Government yesterday signalled that it would be going to the market to plug the $6-billion gap in the Budget."There is going to have be some increase in borrowing," Finance Minister Audley Shaw told journalists at yesterday's post-Cabinet press briefing....
Gov't talks with US over 'Dudus' issue
The Government has confirmed that it is engaged in talks with the United States on the extradition order against west Kingston strongman, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.A statement on the matter was forthcoming only days after former national security...
Nurses absent from work
The public health sector buckled under severe pressure late yesterday as militant nurses stayed off the job, following their march on Gordon House 24 hours earlier.The nurses staged a protest on Tuesday in defiance of appeals from Prime Minister Bruce...
Small, rural school makes big strides - Teacher uses technology to improve reading at Pell River Primary
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: MANY PEOPLE may not have heard of Pell River Primary School, but one of its teachers, Andrae Lyons, has been working overtime to make it popular. Lyons bows into action today at the second renewal ...
Health authorities' quiz highlights Breastfeeding Week
IN TRUE Schools' Challenge Quiz style, health workers faced each other in the National Breastfeeding Competition, which marked the peak of National Breastfeeding Week activities. The competition this year featured health workers from across the island, who answered....
'We apologise!' - Fray's family sorry for embarrassment to Jamaica
WESTERN BUREAU: The family of accused would-be hijacker, Stephen Fray, has apologised to the nation for any embarrassment the April 19 incident may have put the country through. Fray is facing 10 counts of gun-related charges in the Western Regional Gun Court ...
Agriculture will be ok - Tufton
Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has admitted that the cut in the Budget is a setback for some agricultural programmes. "Clearly, it's a challenge, no one wants their budget to be cut, but we all understand why it has to be," the minister disclosed ...
Technology boosts JN's annual general meeting
The historic 135th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), held yesterday at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, also made history in several other ways.The AGM had its largest turnout of more than 800 members in Kingston;...
NEWS BRIEFS
LIME has new CFOGerard Borely, a Trinidad national, is the new LIME chief financial officer (CFO).Borely will be responsible for strategy, planning and the effective integration of the financial systems of all LIME markets.A press release said Borely...