Weed out the non-performers
ACCORDING TO the Civil Service Establishment Order (2003), there are just over 42,000 civil servants in Jamaica, the majority employed in the health sector.

Davies presents guidelines for consultants (Part Two)
Finance Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, recently brought to the House of Representatives guidelines of September 1997, detailing the method of hiring and remunerating consultants and special advisers.

Financing democracy
The Carter Centre recently convened the conference 'Financing democracy: Political parties, campaigns, and elections' in collaboration with the Organisation of American States' Inter-American Forum on Political Parties.

Blasts rock Baghdad, oil fire rages
BAGHDAD, (Reuters): US AND British planes kept up a relentless barrage on Baghdad yesterday, pounding southern, eastern and central districts of the Iraqi capital.

Turks stone US military convoy
MARDIN, Turkey, (Reuters): TURKS HURLED stones at a convoy of trucks carrying US military equipment yesterday, in the second such attack on the US military in two days, the Anatolian news agency said.

British claim capture of Iraqi general
AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, (Reuters): BRITISH ROYAL Marines commandos captured an Iraqi general and killed another senior officer in clashes with Iraqi paramilitaries south of Basra yesterday, a British military spokesman said.

New era in governance?
THE MINISTRY of Justice recently launched the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption whose term of office is for seven years.