Unemployment on the rise
JUST OVER 170,000 Jamaicans were unemployed during 2002, a 2.8 per cent increase over the 165,400 who were out of work in 2001.

Tax committee and consensus
THE HOUSE Committee on Taxation Measures is already demonstrating the benefits of consultation.

Living up to expectations
WHEN IT comes to winning awards and garnering accolades, no other restaurant in Ocho Rios comes close to the classy establishment appropriately named Passage to India.

Motor vehicle dispute ends up in court
BUSINESSWOMAN AND former host of the TVJ's programme "Man Talk", Christene Hewitt, is now engaged in a dispute with GM Challenger, the dealer in Jamaica for Chevrolet motor vehicles.

Unhealthy state of drains irks Lucea residents
WESTERN BUREAU: DESPITE CLAIMS by the Hanover Parish Council that nearly half-million dollars was spent in an ongoing drain-cleaning programme in Lucea within recent times...

'Better days ahead for sugar industry'
LIVINGSTON MORRISON, chief executive officer of the Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ), is describing as "realistic", projections that 2002/03 is the last year of losses for the company.

St Mary library gets bookmobile
PORT MARIA, St. Mary: FOR NEARLY 11 years, the St. Mary Parish Library has been operating without a bookmobile unit but the library's community outreach, especially to its deep rural clientele...