National Housing Trust (NHT) rates up
MIDDLE-INCOME Jamaicans who benefit from National Housing Trust (NHT) mortgages will pay up to 33.3 per cent more in interest rates on loans, Bruce Golding announced in his debut Budget Debate presentation as prime minister yesterday. The revised interest rate structure...
$30m spent on SUVs for Cabinet ministers
Prime Minister Bruce Golding's government has not changed course from the previous administration's apparent affinity for high-maintenance, gas-guzzling SUVs. Documents gleaned under the Access to Information Act have shown that, since taking up the reins...
Golding shows hand - Government gambles on casinos in Jamaica
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has confirmed a Sunday Gleaner report that his administration has given the green light for the introduction of casinos. Already, the developers of the Palmyra Resort and Spa have been given approval to construct a new hotel - on a 65-acre property...
Decades late, but PM lauded for bold move
WESTERN BUREAU: Chairman of the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF), Godfrey Dyer, yesterday lauded Prime Minister Bruce Golding for being brave enough to make the decision. Dyer, a former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) who has been calling for a change...
The Manley Memoirs- A path of love, infidelity, betrayal
It is a story of love, betrayal and courage that knew no bounds. It is a romantic tale of a man loved and hated to the same extremes. Beverley Anderson-Manley describes the experiences that groomed her to become the wife of one of Jamaica's popular prime ministers...
Spanish Town Hospital gets an upgrade - New haemodyalisis centre to open tomorrow
Persons with renal failure, living in Spanish Town, St Catherine, and its environs, are to benefit from a new haemodyalisis centre at the Spanish Town Hospital, equipped with seven machines, courtesy of businessman Ernest Hoo. The Katie Hoo Haemodyalisis Centre is to be established...
'I can't get help for him' - Mother laments not finding school to take special son
OSHANE CHRISTIE is 10 years old. He walks and laughs and even throws stones; not quite like everyone else though - because he is different. He has never talked and has never been to school and his mother has all but given up on helping him live as normal a life as possible....
Trying times ahead for Fern Gully vendors
THE NEXT few weeks promise to be more than challenging for craft vendors in Fern Gully, St Ann. A downpour of a few hours last week Thursday night altered their business stride and today they are mopping up and counting their losses after nature's onslaught...
Coe to visit Jamaica in May
Athletics great, Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 London Olympic Games, will visit Jamaica in late May. Lord Coe will be the guest speaker at the Salvation Army's fund-raising dinner in Kingston on May 28. Lord Coe's presentation, and a silent auction...
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