$380b budget - Housing gets big boost
Finance Minister Dr. Omar Davies yesterday presented a $380.4 billion budget for the 2007/08 fiscal year, a spending projection that is six per cent higher than the last fiscal year, which ends tomorrow, but a mere two per cent more than a revised estimates approved...
Blessings in the midst of his storm
JUST FOUR years ago, Everette Armstrong was making a comfortable living as a fisherman in Black River. After accumulating enough funds, he invested in a grocery shop, supplying to the small community in which he lived. But in late 2003, Mr. Armstrong's life took a sudden...
Fixed income depository in 2008 - Central bank now in control of project
Livingston Morrison, deputy governor of the Bank of Jamaica, has taken charge of the project to build out a new electronic fixed-income depository and settlement system for investment securities, similar to that established for stock certificates and transactions.
Poor batting wrecks Windies
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: IT IS said that lightning does not strike the same place twice and that may well be so, if lightning and batting can be compared, it is definitely not so with the West Indies batting. In fact, following its disappointing performance on Wednesday...
EDITORIAL - The despot of Zimbabwe
RobertMugabe, the despot of Zimbabwe, must be growing aware that his neighbours in southern Africa are becoming fed up with him. They are not yet ready to tell him openly that it is time to go, but the writing is clearly on the wall.
LETTER OF THE DAY - Conspiracy of silence on school violence
The Editor, Sir: My commendations on a succint and accurate editorial analysis of the situation at Kingston Technical High School. Unfortunately, the reaction of the administration is archetypical and not the exception.
ZJ Liquid flows on Zip
Michael 'ZJ Liquid' Brissett used a table for his favourite subject, technical drawing, when he attended Cornwall College in Montego Bay. These days, though, he is using a different table, a turntable. Those wishing to feel the heat can catch him Tuesday to Sundays...
Ceremonial Couture
Parliamentarians stepped out in style yestarday for the annual ceremonial opening and throne speech. As usual, our cameras caught the hits and misses. Hits include a sober-looking Tourism minister and the world's best-dressed female Prime Minister.
Gov't adjourns session on Panday
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): Freed of a corruption conviction, Basdeo Panday went to Trinidad and Tobago's House of Representatives Wednesday, determined to contribute to the debate, but the Patrick Manning administration adjourned the House before he could...
Carried back in time with Ethiopia's Jews
GONDAR, Ethiopia (Reuters): The dusty compound where Ethiopian Jews await word on whether they can emigrate to Israel could not be more different from the world I left behind when I took the same path more than 20 years ago. The only familiar sight here, among the mud huts..
