NORTH EAST St Catherine Member of Parliament Gregory Mair is arguing that Cabinet erred when it decided to put a hold on projects under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) shortly after a change of political administration...

The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) is calling for the Government to speed up plans for the privatisation of the 16 public-sector entities picked out for removal from government control under the Public Sector Master Rationalisation Plan....

Mobile service provider Digicel and Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) have agreed to cooperate in an effort to complete an audit of the telecommunications firm's general consumption tax (GCT) compliance.Two weeks ago, TAJ agents, supported by the police...

BYRON GRAY claims to have spent a handsome sum of money trying to protect the road that leads to his house in Sandy Corner, North East St Catherine. He says for more than a decade water that rushes down a slope in the community whenever it rains has eaten away....

Edith Allwood Anderson, past president of the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ), says the profession has secured a major victory, following the announcement that Cabinet has signed off on the long overdue reclassification for nurses....

IS ROGER Clarke a farmer or a woodcutter? We really wonder. Sure, he is one of the largest producers of sugar cane on the island, but the slaughter to which he has agreed to subject the agriculture sector this fiscal year is mind-boggling...

The government has dropped the axe on the budget for the National Transformation Programme, a civil society-led, value-based programme which was led by the Rev Al Miller.In the last three years, the programme received...

WHEN IT was in Opposition, the People's National Party complained bitterly that the then Government was not honouring its commitment to put a prescribed per cent of the fuel tax into the Road Maintenance Fund (RMF).But, in his first full budget since...

GOVERNOR GENERAL Patrick Allen will this morning open the 37th Commonwealth Parliamen-tary Association (CPA) Regional Conference in St Andrew.The opening ceremony will take place at 9 a.m...