Debt curbs the Budget - Reduced allocations to several ministries
ALMOST TWO out of every three cents the Government proposes to spend in this year's Budget will go to pay debt, based on the Estimates of Expenditure tabled in Parliament yesterday.
Gov't warns of difficulties ahead
THE GOVERNMENT yesterday warned of great difficulties during legislative year 2003/2004, as its sifts through a diminishing pool of options to invigorate the feeble economy and hold social programmes together.
Lee-Chin gives J$1b to Canadian museum
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN, chairman of AIC/National Commercial Bank, has donated 30 million Canadian dollars (J$1.14 billion) to a cultural attraction project for that country's largest museum of natural history and human cultures.
'Watch your lip, CARICOM' - US envoy warns war critics of 'consequences'
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): A UNITED States envoy has warned Caribbean leaders to watch what they say about the war in Iraq, saying the United States was disappointed with some criticisms from the region.
Fort Clarence Beach to ban stage shows
LIVE CONCERTS will no longer be tolerated at the Fort Clarence Beach in Hellshire, St. Catherine.
Cleve Grant is dead
THE REV. Cleve Grant, 76, an icon on the Jamaican religious landscape, is dead. Rev. Grant died yesterday at 8 a.m. at Andrews Memorial Hospital, Hope Road, St. Andrew.
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