Pickersgill lobbies for bus fare increase
MINISTER OF Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill, yesterday warned that failure to grant the proposed fare increase to the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC)...

JTA president lashes out at Dr Minott
RUEL REID, incoming president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), has lashed out against Dr. Dennis Minott, chief executive officer of the Association of Quietly Excellent Scholars and Thinkers (A-QuEST) for charging that teachers are failing...

Protect our schools - Henry-Wilson
WESTERN BUREAU: FOLLOWING A robbery at the Rio Bueno All-Age School in Trelawny earlier this week, Education Minister Maxine Henry-Wilson yesterday called for the aid of the Members of Parliament ...

PNP gears up for local government elections
THE PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) is cranking up its machinery for the next local government elections, constitutionally due by May 2006.

JUTC Smart Cards to be sold in schools
THE JAMAICA Urban Transport Company (JUTC) will begin selling its smart cards in schools at the start of the academic year in a drive to increase the number of passengers using the cards from six to 30 per cent over the next 12 months. Forty schools are.

Mothers to patrol troubled areas
Despite a low turn out at Monday's 'Million Woman March', the women of Mother in Crisis, the organisers of the event, say they remain unfettered and are now more fired up than ever, with their sights set on a new project.