'Save our jobs' - Berger workers take 20% pay cut
IN A MOVE to save their jobs, workers at Berger Paints Jamaica Limited have agreed to a 20 per cent reduction in basic salary. This comes against the background of several local companies implementing cost-cutting measures, including staff redundancy, in response to the global...
- Racing board to go
- Freeness not the problem - Health ministry will not back down from its decision to abolish user fees in hospitals
- A farm worker's dream - 42 leave Jamaica for US programme
- Prince Edward to visit Feb 2
- High demand for skilled workers
- Vivian Blake back in Jamaica
- Shirley to head new-look Police Service Commission
- Fingerprint in King's bedroom identified
Child-care worker wins Digicel car in St Ann
Talk about luck! Roselyn Jarrett, a 43-year-old child-care worker of Cascade, St Ann, was the lucky winner in Digicel's Mini motorcar giveaway for that parish. "I'm just overwhelmed; I just thank God," Jarrett told The Gleaner. She took a few moments to compose herself....
- Foreigners to pay more for services at passport office
- Rush to US schools - Carib immigrants flock to Florida career schools for jobs in health care
- Jealous boyfriend found guilty of manslaughter
- Cocaine found on cargo boat
- Bustamante Museum toopen Tuesday
- Something extra
Serious Foods in administration
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Jamaica Producers Group (JP) has placed the United Kingdom subsidiary that accounts for more than 70 per cent of its sales into administration - a sort of bankruptcy protection - but says that it wants to sell Serious Foods as a going concern. With its impending full exit...
- Guardian Life suffers loss from sugar job cuts
- Shaw promises curtailment of forex market
- Rohan Barnett takes a hot seat - New FSC head to lead cautious change
- Guardian Holdings to buy back shares
- I'm still making money, says Soros
- Ciboney hotel sale funds freed from escrow
- JMMB doubles nine-month profit to $1.8b - Scaling down insurance business
- MOVEMENTS
Kensington showdown - Jamaica, Barbados meet in top-of-the-table clash
Champions Jamaica and Barbados will renew their age-old rivalry when they clash in a top-of-the-table contest at Kensington Park in the fourth round of the 2009 WICB Four-Day Championships. The teams, who have over the years treated fans to some breathtaking cricket...
- Jamaica's Ruddock, Brooks, Dixon for Millrose Games
- Take The Red Skull
- Federer, Serena march into Aussie Open finals
- Manchester, STETHS showdown for Grace/ISSA KO
- Windies 'A' on a cruise in St Kitts
- Forbes confident Girls can beat England
- Bolt to run 400m at Camperdown Classic
- Flow pumps $28m into Champions Cup KO
- Young taking it one game at a time
EDITORIAL - Vernamfield project does not seem feasible
Mike Henry, the transport and works minister, could not be accused, at least with credibility, of being a man lacking in ideas.Which is good in these times in an administration that has so far failed to offer the country the kind of visionary leadership...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Gov't must protect, not arm citizens
The Editor, Sir: Just as the saying goes, an eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind, so too a gun in most people's hands will leave us all dead or at least nursing gunshot wounds.It is quite understandable the frustration that people feel because ...
- Obama's elixir for the mind
- Stale website info
- Priority should be intelligence training
- Pilots' pay not the problem
- Air Jamaica a victim of apathy
- Airline's decline long in the making
- Lacking substance
- Rev Dick's critique too narrow
- Gun-owning does not mean violence-prone
- Dick's yoke
Different cultures on parade
At least for one night, the Courtleigh Auditorium was transformed into a version of the United Nations General Assembly. The place came alive on Tuesday as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade hosted a cultural evening. The lobby areas had booths ...
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