$250m to park - Air Jamaica plane accumulates fees in France
WESTERN BUREAU:After five months of sitting in a hangar in France, an Airbus 340 leased by Air Jamaica will cost the country US$3.5 million (J$250 million), payable to International Leasing and Financial Corporation (ILFC). The airline has confirmed that the Airbus...
'Open skies' devalues Virgin deal
WESTERN BUREAU: With the dawn of 'open skies', air carriers at London's Heathrow Airport are fetching more than four times the amount that Air Jamaica reportedly received when it sold its slots to Virgin Atlantic Airways approximately eight months...
Government of Jamaica relies on old law to bury injury suit
A man who was seriously injured in 2001, when a section of a main road collapsed on him, has not been compensated because the Government is relying on an old English common-law principle that it is not responsible for injuries caused from lack of maintenance ...
Vaz to return to court
PORT ANTONIO, Portland: Embattled Member of Parliament (MP) for Western Portland, Daryl Vaz, who is charged with breaches of the Public Order, and Jamaica Constabulary Force acts, is to return to court on May 21. At yesterday's hearing at the Resident Magistrate's Court in Buff Bay...
Future of Hanover cemetery in limbo - Committee yet to decide on Royale Rest
Western Bureau: The Ramble Community Development Committee (CDC) is yet to decide on whether it will continue its court challenge to stop burials at the controversial Royale Rest Cemetery in Burnt Ground, Hanover, or seek a negotiated settlement through Health Minister Rudyard Spencer....
Jamaica-born UK lawyer to speak at UWI
Jamaica-born United Kingdom lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths QC, will be the guest speaker at this year's Norman Manley Lecture. Griffiths is an expert in international criminal law and has earned a reputation as one of the top lawyers in the UK. He is currently the lead counsel...
More tertiary education needed - Seaga
Former prime minister and pro-chancellor of the University of Technology (UTech), Edward Seaga, said Jamaica would benefit immensely if more people had access to tertiary-level education. Speaking yesterday at a welcome luncheon in his honour at the Terra Nova Hotel in St Andrew....
$2.4b increase in budget
The Government has tacked on $2.4 billion to its budget for the 2007-2008 fiscal year which ends in less than two weeks. Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday presented the second Supplementary Estimates to Parliament showing the changes in the Government's spending programme....
Teacher pleads not guilty
SPANISH Town, St Catherine: Mylan Blake, also called Marlon Black, the teacher from Jonathan Grant High School who is facing 18 counts of aiding and abetting assault occasioning bodily harm and wounding, will return to court on May 12.When the case was called up...
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