Use our people!
State minister in charge of local government issues, Robert Montague, was on Tuesday warned of possible unrest if the national clean-up agency continues to use itinerant workers at the expense of hometown citizens....
Relief for Ocho Rios congestion
The congestion that has become the norm on the streets of Ocho Rios, St Ann, will soon be a thing of the past if taxi operators hold true to their promise to begin using the resort town's transportation centre as of today....
Inside the budget
$250m for courthouse upkeep - A total of $250 million has been set aside in the 2010/2011 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the Houses of Representatives, to facilitate the renovation and maintenance of Jamaica's courthouses....
CAC encourages more consumer vigilance
The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is stressing the need for consumers to be well informed about managing their financial resources in order to ride out the lingering effects of the global recession....
FISH was a dream thatstayed afloat - Professor
The Foundation for the International Self Help Development (Ja) Limited (FISH), has been hailed by University of the West Indies professor emeritus Hugh Wynter as the realisation of a larger-than-life ambition...
Ready, set, go!
With an ambitious plan already in place to spur growth and development in Manchester, there are now calls for it to be set in motion immediately. One of the persons leading the charge is businessman Jackie Minott...
'We need severe penalties'
THE INSISTENCE of some to reap what they have not sown continues to frustrate farmers and the police in Manchester, even as many in that parish make a determined effort to grow...
NCU provides healing programmes
NORTHERN CARIBBEAN University (NCU) is hoping key outreach programmes it provides in parenting, counselling and entrepreneurship can help stem various types of antisocial behaviour affecting Mandeville and its environs....
Crime giving us a fight
The post-bauxite era has brought several challenges that could derail development plans for the parish of Manchester. The main challenges most Manchester business leaders agree, is the rising crime wave, especially in areas just outside the Mandeville...
To increase entrepreneurial activity focus on four aspects
OUTGOING MANCHESTER Chamber of Commerce President Winston Lawson has cited four key areas in which the parish of Manchester could spawn entrepreneurial activity in the wake of the massive fallout from the bauxite industry...
Northern Jamaica project gets $1.5 billion boost
JIS:The Northern Jamaica Development Project is to receive $1.5 billion to continue improvement to infrastructure in tourism centres on the island's northern coast.As set out in the 2010/11 Estimates of Expenditure...
Blackberry brings big profits to RIM
Research In Motion says its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings jumped 37 per cent as its BlackBerry subscriber base grew and smartphone shipments increased.Canada-based Research In Motion Ltd said yesterday that its net income for the December-February...
'Church protected alleged paedophile'
Lawyers in a Florida clergy sex-abuse case say the Vatican office, then headed by Pope Benedict XVI, failed to remove an alleged paedophile from the priesthood for years, even when the priest himself asked to be defrocked.Attorney Jessica Arbour...
UN asks for Iraqi elections to be respected
The United Nations (UN) Security Council yesterday called on all political parties to respect Iraq's election results and the choices of the Iraqi people.The UN's most powerful body also urged the country's political leaders "to avoid inflammatory...