'Mills, Francis should get OJs'
Patrick Robinson, international judge and renowned author, is urging the Government to upgrade the national honours awarded to track and field coaches Glen Mills and Stephen Francis. Both coaches are members of the Order of Distinction but Robinson wants...
New system aims at traffic corruption
A new traffic-ticketing system is to be rolled out by October 20, as the Government seeks to correct deficiencies identified in the existing one."What we are doing is taking the manual system which now exists and creating an automated system...
SHARING GOOD NEWS - Remittances keep families connected
THE NEW school year has begun in earnest, and many students as well as parents are still in the process of adjusting to new schools, new schedules and, for some, even new countries. If you are a parent who had a plane ticket on your child's back-to-school list...
Local government should spread culture - McKenzie
Local government should not only be about fixing roads, cleaning drains or collecting money from businesses. It should also participate in protecting and spreading the culture of its constituents...
Don't reduce aid to weaker countries - IMF
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has accepted that policies pursued by the lending agency have hurt developing countries.He said, however, that the IMF has learnt from mistakes of the past...
Psychiatrist says Fray's testimony believable
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Wendel Abel, consultant psychiatrist and senior lecturer at the University of the West Indies, took the stand yesterday in the Stephen Fray case in the Western Regional Gun Court. And like the diagnosis made by government psychiatrist...
'No partisan decisions in transport ministry'
Minister of Transport and Works Mike Henry has rejected allegations from the Opposition that politics has been a factor in the decisions on which roads are to be repaired.Henry has also slapped down the claim that money...
Glen Andrade is dead
Retired Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Glen Andrade, QC, died yesterday afternoon at the Andrews Memorial Hospital after battling with cancer for the last year. Andrade retired in 1998 after serving as director for 11 years. He joined the Office...
Cabinet tightens nuts and bolts of new Budget
Cabinet worked late into the evening yesterday putting the finishing touches on the 2009-2010 Supplementary Estimates, which are to be tabled in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. Information Minister Daryl Vaz told The Gleaner last evening that...