Gov't bills still unpaid - Long delays irk contractors
THE MINISTRY of Transport and Works has failed to pay contractors for Government projects done islandwide despite promises to clear all or most of the near $1 billion debt by March 5 this year.
Corporate Area water supply to get $million boost
URBAN WATER supply schemes, long neglected due to a lack of adequate funding, are set to receive urgently needed attention over the next three years, according to Donald Buchanan, Minister of Water and Housing.
Chastising Portia
THE MYTH that the governing People's National Party (PNP) is a truly democratic party, or that its members never 'wash their dirty linen in public' was shattered last Wednesday...
Remembering the candle maker
CHRIS WAS energetic, spicy and enervating. He was the heart of Life's Work, an income generating project under the auspices of Jamaica AIDS Support.
Help, don't discriminate, urges teen
I HAVE FOUND out that many of our teachers don't know how to deal with the issue of HIV in the schools. For example, I spoke to a young lady who is infected with HIV and she said that when she was in high school, sores and bumps were on her skin.
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