Petrojam fire costs $45m
THE MANAGEMENT of Petrojam has put the preliminary estimates of Monday night's fire which damaged three storage tanks at the state-owned oil refinery at US$1 million (J$45 million). Winston Watson, managing director at the oil refinery, said the...

Mitchell denies stuffing ballot boxes

PHYLLIS MITCHELL, Member of Parliament for North East St. Catherine, yesterday denied allegations she was present when her supporters entered a polling station on Election Day in December 1997, marked ballots and stuffed them in ballot boxes.

PM explains removal of 'muzzle' clause
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson said yesterday that despite the removal of the controversial 'muzzle' clauses from the Corruption Prevention Act, the media would still be subject to common law in publishing information from the proposed Corruption...

Contract issues resurface in Parliament
THE ISSUE of public sector contracts resurfaced in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday with a letter from Deputy Solicitor-General Douglas Leys in which he challenged a decision of the Finance Ministry. It also emerged at the PAC.