More pay for MPs - Salaries to go up month-end
MEMBERS OF Parliament will start receiving higher salaries at the end of this month. Effective April 1, 2002, their salaries were increased by eight per cent in keeping with similar increases for civil servants over the two-year...
Prisons catering contract 'wasn't awarded on merit'- Contractor-General
THE CONTROVERSIAL award of a contract by the Correctional Services to a company headed by a former People's National Party candidate to provide meals for prisoners...
Zoo chides 'monkey business' in its search for 'Sammy'
CURATORS AT Hope Zoo, St. Andrew, yesterday ap-pealed to members of the public to desist from making prank calls, as they continue their search for "Sammy," a capuchin monkey which escaped on Wednesday. "We are still trying to locate Sammy...
Lawyer wants Air Jamaica pension fund trustees jailed
A lawyer who has been involved in a legal battle with the trustees of the Air Jamaica pension fund over legal fees is now urging a judge of the Supreme Court to send the trustees to prison for breaching a United Kingdom Privy Council...
Hundreds say farewell to slain detective corporal
HUNDREDS OF mourners turned out yesterday morning to say farewell to Detective Corporal Joshua Graham who was killed by gunmen two weeks go. They included Police Commissioner Francis Forbes and other senior officers of the Jamaica Constabulary, Dr....
Withdraw property tax assessments - JLP
THE JAMAICA Labour Party yesterday called for the cancellation of planned increases in property taxes for the 2002/2003 fiscal year. Audley Shaw, the party's spokesman on Finance, said the system used to revalue properties was flawed and attempts to...
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