Wheels turning for inner-city renewal

COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES from Central Kingston and facilitators from the Inner City Renewal Programme met yesterday to discuss a raft of proposals for developing several inner-city communities in Kingston. For the most part, however, it was the...

Ja renews development pact
MEXICO AND Venezuela have renewed the San Jose Accord, the 20-year-old agreement for co-operating with Jamaica and 10 other Caribbean and Central American countries in economic and social development. Vicente Fox, President of Mexico, and his...

Gov't to pay regional unit
THE GOVERNMENT has admitted that it owes money to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), which is reportedly facing imminent collapse because of cash problems.

Energy conference begins today
CLIMATE CHANGE, global warming, carbon emissions and their impact on small island states will be discussed today during the three-day conference on 'Sustainable Applications for Small Island States ( SATIS 2001) at Le Meridien Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in...

No guaranteed jobs on return - Whiteman

THE MINISTRY of Education has warned that teachers leaving for overseas assignments run the risk of not having a job on their return, noting that new recruits would have already occupied their positions.