Ocho Rios craft vendors restive
TOURISM INTERESTS and other business leaders in Ocho Rios have been in discussions with craft traders over several days this week as they attempt to defuse growing discontent over what the traders call the Government's several broken promises...
Bernal raps region's xenophobia
JAMAICA AND other Caribbean territories have been accused of suffering a bad case of "xenophobia"- the deep fear of foreign competition, foreign companies and dislike of foreigners. In levelling the charges, Dr. Richard Bernal, Director General of...
Patrick Genius' case for Appeal Court
THE PATRICK Genius case in which Kent Pantry, Q.C., the Director of Public Prosecutions, said he did not have sufficient evidence to rule that the three policemen allegedly involved in his death should be charged with murder, is to go to the Court of...
Edwards appointed Minister of State
JENNIFER EDWARDS, Member of Parliament for South West St. Catherine was yesterday appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. Ms. Edwards who won her seat in the December 1997 general election, replaces...
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