FINANCE AND the Public Service Minister Audley Shaw yesterday said he regretted tabling a 2010-2011 Estimates of Expenditure devoid of critical data from the second Supplementary Estimates tabled earlier this...
Finance Minister Audley Shaw has announced a whopping increase in property tax rates effective tomorrow. The property tax increase will see the flat rate move from $600 to $1,000.The flat rate is appli-cable to property with unimproved value up to $300,000.
FIVE DAYS after Minister of Finance and the Public Service Audley Shaw tabled a $499.3-billion Budget in Parliament, the Estimates of Expenditure have been moved up by nearly one percentage...
WESTERN BUREAU: The ongoing drought conditions affecting the island are having a debilitating effect on farming in western Jamaica. President of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS), Glendon Harris, believes it is twice as expensive for farmers to produce...
GOVERNOR GENERAL Sir Patrick Allen yesterday joined the Rotary 'Race to Literacy' book drive by donating several publications from his personal collection to The Gleaner Company.The Gleaner, which is one of many collection...
FINANCE MINISTER Audley Shaw will today lead his Cabinet colleagues into Gordon House to defend the spending that has been proposed for each ministry of government.Already, the Opposition People's National Party (PNP)...
THEY GATHERED in the town of Christiana, Manchester, as early as mid-morning, hoping to get a glimpse of their Holmwood stars, hoping to join in the revelry of yet another ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys and Girls' Championships triumph....
THE TEARS flowed freely, but there was no sad face inside the Heroes Circle home of Wolmer's Boys' School yesterday morning as Wolmerians celebrated in a way they had not done for 54...
FROM BEHIND the counter of her very modest grocery shop in tiny Sedburgh, Manchester, Lasmine Campbell had one simple piece of advice to share with all Jamaicans."It is not how much you earn, it's how much you save," she...
Another early adjournment of the Cuban light-bulb trial occurred yesterday at the Half-Way Tree court after a peeved Senior Resident Magistrate Judith Pusey chided Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn and her team, who she accused of poor...
Opposition senator K.D.Knight says his suspension from the Senate is a sideshow being staged by the Government to take the spotlight away from what he labels its "inefficiency".
Good Morning Mrs Walker-Huntington, I have a big concern. I recently read a Jamaican newspaper online and found out that US visas are being revoked. Now, I am a permanent resident in America and am currently in school...
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has called for the General Legal Counsel to investigate whether attorney Harold Brady breached professional ethics in his alleged misrepresentation of the Government...
While condemning the cover-up of child sex-abuse cases involving Roman Catholic clergy globally, Archbishop of Kingston, the Most Reverend Donald Reece, says paedophilia should be treated as an irreversible psychological problem...
The emotions on their faces suddenly transformed into brilliant smiles, as they breathed a sigh of relief, on leaving their classrooms at Vaz Preparatory School, Kingston, on the second day of the Grade Six Achievement Test...
A prosecutor has been commended by Supreme Court judge Sarah Thompson-James for the decision he took in conceding to a no-case submission in the Gun Court.The judge, in commending Crown Counsel Greg Walcolm, described him...
University of Technology (UTech) students say while they would stay in Jamaica, if the country's economic climate improved so they could support themselves, migration is definitely an option. Seven university students...
An internal feud in the Spanish Town-based Clansman gang has led to the death of 16-year-old Kevon Lloyd, of Little Lane in Central Village, and the wounding of six others. The gang, which has its headquarters in De la Vega City in Spanish Town...
STUNG BY criticisms of the slow pace of the court system, and armed with millions of dollars in grant funds from international partners, the justice ministry in 2006 embarked on an ambitious plan...
Students of The University of Technology (UTech) have expressed concern over the Government's decision to make Budget cuts to education, especially at the primary level. Final-year business major Dahlia Dwyer...
Her entry through the gates at the Cathedral of Praise Basic School in Mandeville, Manchester, a few days ago signalled the first time in more than six months that young Natalee Reid was able to go to class....
THE GOVERNMENT has received commendation for its choice of businesswoman Audrey Marks as the country's ambassador to Washington. The Foreign Affairs Ministry last Friday confirmed that Marks...
AT MID-MORNING on Thursday, the Civil Court on Sutton Street, downtown Kingston, is in full swing, names being announced at the requisite volume and pitch that gives...
ONE HUNDRED years of Boys' Championships have come and gone and in a funny twist of fate, the team which was crowned the first champions, again reigned supreme on...
