Budgeting for debt
The country will see a significant jump in the size of the budget for the 2008/2009 fiscal year, bringing it closer to the $500 billion mark, when the Estimates of Expenditure are tabled in Gordon House today. Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw has said...
Kern's bail extended - Kern returns to court in May
Former junior government minister Kern Spencer and his co-accused in the Cuban light-bulb affair will have to wait another month and a half to hear the prosecution lay its case against them before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court....
Cop to answer to kidnapping charge
WESTERN BUREAU:A 31-year-old policeman who has been charged in connection with the June 2007 kidnapping of a 44-year-old man at Bogue Village in Montego Bay, St James, is scheduled to appear in court on Friday. Const. Omar Gordon was formally charged....
Church must become more active - Lord Bishop
WESTERN BUREAU:Stating that the Church has lost perception of its mission, Lord Bishop Alfred Reid, head of the Anglican Church in Jamaica, says it needs to take a more active role in dealing with social issues that affect the nation. Likening the Church of today to 'the Church of yore'...
Downtown roads blocked - Tel-Aviv residents protest police shooting
Three weeks after Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin effected changes to reduce the use of deadly force in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), another controversial police killing sparked a mass protest yesterday and left an inner-city community in mourning....
'Send clear message against crime'
Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies, Dickie Crawford, believes the Bruce Golding administration must send clear signals in the Throne Speech and the Estimates of Expenditure. "The Throne Speech must address the problem of crime...
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