Aid for Haiti slows - Frustration sets in as bottleneck curtails support
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP): Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people yesterday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space...
- IMF pact - Fund agrees in principle to Jamaica's loan request
- Watch out for scams!
- Diseases: the next concern for Haiti
- Does January bring the shakes?
- Bankers fall in line - Endorse Gov't's debt exchange but demand prudent fiscal management
- Road crashes bleed public resources
Broken promise? - Opposition says PM reneged on pledge to disclose letter of intent
Opposition leader Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday night blasted Prime Minister Bruce Golding for breaking a promise to disclose the full contents of the Letter of Intent to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before the agreement is signed...
- Unit set up to prevent pest infestation
- NEWS BRIEFS
- New trial for special corporal
- Man freed on DNA evidence to sue Gov't
350 bonds recalled - 24 new issues for placement Jan 18
The Jamaica Debt Exchange programme, made public on Thursday, will replace 350 Government of Jamaica bonds held by financial institutions and retail investors with 24 new notes in four classes, and cut as much as 16 percentage points off the prevailing interest...
- Digicel commits US$5m, CCRIF to pay out US$8m to Haiti
- Sugar stalled but shipment sure, SCJ insists
- Capital and Credit refines its operation - Gives up control of overseas subsidiary
- Cautious support for debt-recall plan -IMF staff signs off on US$1.25b facility
- All hurdles cleared to final IMF deal, formalities remain
- New transition team at Air Jamaica
- Movements
It's Brigitte! - Hurdler joins Bolt as sports awards winners
Last night's RJR Sports Foundation's 49th National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year 2009 awards produced a mild surprise. World 100-metre hurdles champion, 35-year-old Brigitte Foster-Hylton, found favour in the eyes of the selection panel...
- Americans have some way to go - Greene
- Jamaica's Mullings makes pro debut tomorrow
- Upbeat Jamaica face tough Leewards
- Bell goes to Portmore
- Great knock, 'Robbie'
- Stay with Diabolical Kid
EDITORIAl - Reaching out and embracing Haiti
It was entirely appropriate, we feel, that Prime Minister Bruce Golding travelled to Haiti yesterday for a first-hand view of the devastation wreaked by Tuesday's earthquake in that country, and to offer Jamaica's assistance and support in the recovery...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Whistling in the dark over property taxes
The Editor, Sir: The Government, it its latest utterance, is talking tough on property taxes. This is an area where successive governments, as is the custom in Jamaica, have failed to understand that making very small annual increases ...
- Thank God for recession
- Serious service problems
- Martin Henry's insightful article
- Butterfly mystery
- Why uneven electricity rates?
- Media vulgarity?
- Haiti's hour of need
- Secular democracy vs Christian theocracy
Audrey's vintage 70
She's one woman who isn't afraid of telling her age. Why should she be? After all, when you look as good as Audrey Hinchcliffe does at 70, you have all the right to shout it from the mountain top. As she said, paraphrasing an old English proverb...
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