We'll back you but ...Bankers say Gov't needs to give more information on economic plan
Financial sector officials yesterday continued to support the Government's strategy to control Jamaica's growing debt problem while at the same time urging the Bruce Golding-led administration to place other measures on the table. In Gordon House today...
Recovery for some, desperation for others
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: For a few fleeting moments, five-year-old Deus Gueby was molested only by flies while he sat in a crib in the centre of the St Bernhard Meus surgical centre in Port-au-Prince.Despite a plaster on his hand ...
'They are dying while you are waiting!'
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A dead man's body was being kicked around on a street corner. He tried to steal one night and the people let him go. He tried to steal the next night and they killed him. A few feet away from that corner, a building had collapsed and the smell...
Half million goes to refugee preparedness
With the country bracing for an influx of Haitians fleeing their earthquake-hit country, a corporate entity is helping. Digicel Business has committed a total of $500,000 to be donated to the Department of Correctional...
Spencer thanks health volunteers for Haitian service
Health Minister Rudyard Spencer lauded the Jamaican medical and health volunteers for the work they were doing in Haiti. Spencer said the team had been able to immediately and successfully assist in the effort to provide much-needed medical and health...
Small price to pay - Shaw defends FINSAC enquiry bill
In a staunch defence of the millions of taxpayer dollars being spent on the "commission of enquiry into the 1990s collapse of the financial sector", Finance Minister Audley Shaw said the approximately $80 million budgeted for the controversial exercise ...
Customers join banks in support of JDX
MINNA ISRAEL, president of the Royal Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, says her bank's customers have expressed positive reactions regarding the proposed debt-exchange programme between Government and the financial sector....
Captain Burrell gets FIFA involved in Haiti recovery
GRIM, frightening and heartbreaking. These are but a few, yet choice words from Captain Horace Burrell depicting the tale of woe affecting earthquake-ravaged Haiti. The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) president - reacting to a request by the Caribbean Football Union...
Police name suspect in cop killing
The police are listing Milton Lewis, otherwise called 'Askel', 'Manley', and 'Forty-Five', as the main suspect in the murder of Special Constable Clive Virgo. The special constable was murdered Sunday afternoon in Clarendon...