$billion flood bill - Gov't to spell out funding sources today. National Day of Restoration planned
HEAVY RAINS have stopped and flood waters have subsided, affected families are trying to pull their lives together again, and Government is holding an estimated bill of $1 billion to fix the island's infrastructure. This is in addition to millions of...
NCB launches fund for flood victims
THE NATIONAL Commercial Bank (NCB) has launched an initiative dubbed, 'The NCB Challenge', to raise funds for and provide relief to victims of the recent flood rains. The NCB Challenge is to get private sector companies, professionals, civil servants...
Cane farmers want Heaven sacked
SUGAR CANE farmers yesterday demanded the resignation of Sugar Company of Jamaica's (SCJ) head, Ambassador Derrick Heaven, and the immediate intervention of Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. A member of the Sugar Company of Jamaica's (SCJ) board resigned...
Court throws out A-G's appeal
THE COURT of Appeal made clear yesterday that it was not going to be "a rubber stamp", when it threw out an appeal brought by the Attorney-General for a 33-year-old deportee to be declared a restricted...
Sangster Int'l Airport deal almost complete
THE GOVERNMENT is close to wrapping up negotiations with the Canadian-based Vancouver International Airport group for a 30-year lease on the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, according to a spokesman for the...
Cambio operator killed
Hanover: ASTLEY BANDOO, a 73-year-old cambio operator of Bay Road district, Little London, Westmoreland was shot and killed in Hanover yesterday...
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