Mayor wants law to settle MP/councillor tenure row
COUNCILLOR LLOYD Hill, chairman of the Hanover Parish Council, has moved a resolution calling for amendments to the laws relating to sitting councillors who are elected Members of Parliament and who chose to hold both positions simultaneously.
Retrial ordered for murder accused
A RETRIAL has been ordered for 19-year-old Rupert Smith, labourer, of Greenwich Town, Kingston 12, who is charged with murdering Jervis 'Dread' Palmer, 56, a taxi driver.
Gov't to specify JDF police powers
IT APPEARS that the Government has accepted the recommendation of Michael Hylton, Q.C., the Solicitor-General, to be specific with the police powers it wants granted to members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF).
JPSCo tops OUR complaint list
THE JAMAICA Public Service Co. continues to be, by far, the most complained about public utility, according to the Office of Utilities Regulation.
US$6m not missing - JTB boss
WESTERN BUREAU: CONTRARY TO popular belief, the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) says the Auditor-General has found that there is no US$6 million missing from its controversial 'Operation Grow' programme that ran during 2001.
...JLP calls for release of audit
SAYING "THE taxpaying public has a right to know", the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is calling for the immediate release of findings into allegations of fraud at the Jamaica Tourist Board's (JTB) New York office.
Airport workers assured of pension after change-over
WESTERN BUREAU: SOME WORKERS employed to the Airports Authority of Jamaica at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay stand to lose their jobs when new managers take over the airport on March 1.
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