Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Thursday | May 21, 2009
PM receives report on chartered flight incident
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has received a written report from the police on their investigations into the circumstances surrounding the arrival, at the Norman Manley International Airport, of a private-chartered aircraft from Cuba on Thursday night, May 14... Read More...
BRIEFS
The deadline for entries for the 10th annual Michael Manley Award for Community Self-Reliance and fifth Environmental Foundation of Jamaica (EFJ) Award has been extended to Tuesday, May 26, eleven days... Read More...
Invaders from the sea - Jamaica possibly at risk from ships' tainted ballast water
It is customary to imagine that alien invaders will arrive from space, but Jamaica is at serious risk of an incursion of alien invaders from the sea. Shipping is vital to Jamaica's economic sustainability as an island state with more than 90 per cent... Read More...
UWI launches weekend degree programmes
Persons wanting to pursue a first degree in banking and finance or management studies (accounts) can now attend classes on Saturdays, as the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has launched its weekend degree... Read More...
Government guarantees €204m loan despite opposition protest
GOVERNMENT HAS guaranteed a loan of €204.4 million from the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ) to the National Road Operating and Constructing Company (NROCC). Parliament approved the guarantee Tuesday but only government members were in the chamber to vote... Read More...
Consultant's training bill sparks concern - $1.8m polishes foreigner's credentials
PARLIAMENTARIANS EXAMINING the annual report of the auditor general were visibly upset Tuesday as they queried a contract of an overseas consultant hired at a cost of $1.8 million and sent on training abroad at the expense of Fiscal Services Limited... Read More...
Hampden sell-off delayed again
The Government has been further barred by a Supreme Court order from selling the property of Hampden Estates Ltd in Trelawny. Justice Gloria Smith granted a 30-day injunction Tuesday when the parties appeared in chambers at the Supreme Court. Read More...
'Watch yuh pickney' - PM's wife urges parents to keep tabs on children
Lorna Golding, wife of the prime minister, rallied parents in an impassioned plea Tuesday to protect their children from sex predators.Golding even slipped into vernacular during her impromptu address to the audience at the launch of the Ananda Alert... Read More...
Lawyers press Gov't on CCJ
THE JAMAICAN Bar Association has moved a resolution at its annual general meeting, urging the Government to move forward with the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).The resolution calls for "the Government of Jamaica and the other treaty states... Read More...
