SPEND MORE - Davies wants Government to focus on capital projects
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on Finance Dr Omar Davies is proposing that the Govern-ment spend more on capital projects this fiscal year, with a view to generating income for many Jamaicans and to "return hope to many faces".
- Triple bundle of joy
- Obama's first 100 days - Legacy will hinge on economic results
- Security forces contain protests in Corporate Area
- Duncan wants partnership to lower interest rates
- Archbishop of Canterbury visits this afternoon
- Blackwell, Lewis lose millions - Times rich list
- Immigration corps may lose travel privileges
- Climate-change conference in May
- Good neighbours are everywhere
The wheel deal - Disabled man turns wheelchair designer
Nearly 15 years after becoming disabled in a shooting incident, Patrick Rhoden is still determined not to live under the cloud of invalidity. Instead, he has set about repairing and even donating wheelchairs to other physically disabled persons and has continued to be an inspiration to many since being injured.
- Grants Pen family hurting from gas riots killing
- ACROSS THE NATION
- New care centre for mentally challenged
- Tax on computers, books stirs anger
- Bee-ware! Spell champ gets into stinging form
- Government doubles up on literacy fight
- Careers - Make a good impression during your probation
We are not for sale! LIME, Flow deny Columbus talks
Executives of Columbus Communications, the regional fixed-line telephone, Internet and cable television business in which Jamaican billionaire Michael Lee Chin is a minority partner, are adamant that the company is not up for sale.
- Jerrold Johnson's tips on good financial planning
- Find yourself a dealer! BOJ ending direct sale of government instruments
- CRNM losing autonomy - Trade-negotiating body to be absorbed by CARICOM secretariat
- Pandemic fears push oil prices down again
- PGA to build Bahamas resort
- St Lucia to rely on loans, new taxes
- Small developer puts houses on soft market
- Canadian company to explore for gold in Haiti
Leaders meet in crucial clash
Leaders Portmore United, along with Harbour View, Tivoli Gardens and Boys' Town, will continue jostling for positions at the top of the table as the curtain comes down on the penultimate round of the Digicel Premier League (DPL) today.
- Olympians test positive for CERA
- Spalding Cup postponed
- Jamaica win title
- Lennon, XLCR final
- Richards gearing to shake mental bugbear
- Ride with The Smoker
- Sports briefs
- Anderson determined to earn his ticket to World Champs
- Bulli spurs Kensington
- Henzell delighted with crowd support
Editorial - Commissioner Lewin's difficult road
What is surprising is that, coming into the Jamaican constabulary, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin was surprised to discover the extent to which the rules were not followed, particularly with regard to the policy for the use of firearms. It is either that Admiral Lewin was not properly briefed on the state of the force; that he, initially, did not take the briefing seriously enough...
- LETTER OF THE DAY - Barack Obama: a glimmer of hope
- We cannot afford the Governor General
- Backward step in education
- Disappointed with Portia
Tax on books?
The Editor, Sir: It is with significant dismay and disappointment that I read of the Government's decision to charge GCT on 'printed matter' with exceptions for those deemed to be for religious or educational purposes. In response, I pose a question to the Government, are not all books educational?
- Choosing the low road
- A-Class Budget presentation
- Child vendors
- Kingston's decline
- Noteworthy (www.gleanerblogs.com)
- A deceptive Budget
- Oppressive tax increase
- Moving forward
Performances spice up curry fest
Dancehall star Busy Signal created musical ecstasy at Manning's School in Savanna-la-mar when he brought the curtains down on the 2009 Westmoreland Curry Festival with an exceptional performance.
- Carib collaboration produces 'Secrets/Hush'
- Byron Lee's Dragonaires hasn't missed a beat
- Snoop Dogg takes stand in civil trial
- Kelly Rowland to perform at CFW
Swine flu responds to antiviral drugs
In a rapidly developing and changing situation, the world could be on the brink of its first influenza epidemic in more than 40 years. At the time of publication, the World Health Organisation was still calling the situation a "public-health emergency of international concern".
- Dementia - A disease of the family
- Eating yourself to death - watch the STOP signs
- Breastfeeding melts 'baby fat'
- Health trends - Bayer launches men's health care
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T&T Government confident over new crime-fighting plan
National Security Minister Martin Joseph has expressed confidence that a "strategic restructuring of the national security sector" would contribute significantly to a reduction in the escalating crime situation in Trinidad and Tobago.
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