Ja short of sugar - 20,000 tonnes to be imported from Belize and Guyana
JAMAICA WILL have to import 20,000 tonnes of sugar from Belize and Guyana this year, at a cost of $316 million, to satisfy the domestic market. This has resulted from a 37,000-tonne shortfall projected for this...
Alpart working to repair burnt belt
IT MAY cost more than the $20 million previously stated to repair damaged sections of an Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) conveyor belt that was damaged during Friday's fire, which was reportedly started...
Impending transfer of prosecutor has colleagues up in arms
PROSECUTORS AT the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, King Street, Kingston, were yesterday up in arms over reports of the impending transfer of Paula Llewellyn, acting Senior Deputy DPP. Some threatened to take industrial...
Mechanical problems ground Air Jamaica plane
MECHANICAL PROBLEMS forced Air Jamaica to cancel a New York-bound flight on Sunday, after passengers who had already boarded were forced to wait on the tarmac at Norman Manley International Airport, east Kingston, for over an...
PM's letter 'politicising NHT', Holness charges
ANDREW HOLNESS, Jamaica Labour Party spokesman on Land and Community Development, yesterday accused Prime Minister P.J. Patterson of politicising the National Housing Trust. He made the charge in commenting on a letter being sent out by the Prime...
JTA elects 2003 president
WENTWORTH GABBIDON, principal of Pike All-Age School, Manchester, has been chosen the Jamaica Teachers' Association's president-elect, following last month's...
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