Ja to export meds? US groups want offshore schools
JAMAICA COULD soon start training medical professionals for the export market. Two overseas groups have made proposals to the Ministry of Education to set up off-shore medical schools in the island to train doctors...
PM to meet with security chiefs
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has called an emergency meeting with National Security Minister Dr. Peter Phillips, Police Commissioner Francis Forbes, and Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, Chief of Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force.
Little interest in JPSCo rebate
THE OFFICE of Utilities Regulation (OUR) says it is not satisfied with the public's apparent lack of interest in the repayment of $290 million under the Jamaica Public Service Company's (JPSCo) fuel rebate and reconciliation programme.
Air Jamaica flies through blackout
THREE AIR Jamaica flights to New York, and one to Newark, New Jersey, experienced delays but eventually went airborne as the biggest power blackout in history hit US cities yesterday.
GP hunger strike ends
INMATES AT the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre (General Penitentiary) agreed yesterday to end a hunger strike they started Tuesday night to protest against the postponement of their annual family week activities.
Gov't readies for school reopening
WITH FEWER than three weeks to go before the reopening of schools, only two-thirds of the number of persons expected to apply for school fee assistance have done so, Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson said yesterday.
Bird shooting season starts Saturday
THE NATIONAL Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is reminding hunters that there are prescribed times for hunting during the 2003 bird shooting season which begins this Saturday and runs until September 21.
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