JEEP funds ready

MORE THAN 5,000 Jamaicans are set to receive short-term employment under the much-touted Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP), which yesterday received $4.2-billion worth of fuel to get the vehicle...

Dire Budget cuts

FINANCE MINISTER Dr Peter Phillips has signalled his intention to swing a $21.6-billion axe into the national Budget. By way of a second supplementary estimates of expenditure tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday...

Marketing Counselors is tops

A sense of déjà vu permeated the air yesterday as Marketing Counselors took the top prize once again at The Gleaner's Annual Advertisers' Appreciation and Agency Awards....

Execution is key, says Bunting

Peter Bunting, the minister of national security, says the difference in his approach to tackling the country's crime problem will be in the way his policies are executed."Talk is cheap and anything you can find has been said (before)...

Commish to stay on

National Security Minister Peter Bunting yesterday sought to quash speculation that Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington is on his way out the door.Bunting, who was speaking during a Jamaica House press conference, insisted Ellington...

JCA defends Simpson Miller ... says WICB 'out of order'

The Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) has come out in strong support of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, who on Monday was chastised by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for allegedly making ill-advised statements regarding the ongoing impasse....

Among the proposed Budget cuts...

HealthSOME $18 million which was earmarked for the purchase of equipment for hospitals will not be disbursed this fiscal year.The second supplementary estimates of expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives yesterday, also indicate that another...

Walker hits back at critics

Danville Walker has scoffed at the cynical reactions of some members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) over his decision to end his short stint in representational politics. Walker, who yesterday revealed he had only...

A fresh start - Chamberlain gets second chance after 40 years fighting drug addiction

After more than 40 years struggling with crack cocaine addiction, Clayon Chamberlain is giving God thanks for a second chance. No more do his neighbours refer to him as a crackhead. He is now 'Mr Chamberlain'. And that brings tears to his eyes....

Roper to head new JUTC board

The Reverend Garnett Roper, president of the Jamaica Theological Seminary and newspaper columnist, has been appointed to head the board of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC). A new managing director is also to be...

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