NWC unable to deliver to entire country - Blames developers for out-of-reach settlements
The National Water Commission (NWC) has revealed that it cannot deliver potable water to the entire Jamaican population. Vernon Barrett, vice-president of corporate and strategic planning at the government-owned utility, tells The Sunday Gleaner that it was constrained by capacity limitations arising from poor settlement planning.
NAJ opposes abortion clinics
Stopping just short of accusing state interests of hypocrisy, members of the local anti-abortion movement including the Nurses' Association of Jamaica (NAJ), say that energy and money ploughed into lobbying for legal termination would be better spent improving basic reproductive-health services.
Sloley recommends new income-tax threshold
NOEL SLOLEY, opposition senator, is recommending that Government introduce a new income-tax threshold for nurses, teachers and police - the three major public-sector groups that have refused to sign the memorandum of understanding (MOU3) with the government.
Media practitioner dies
The Press Association of Jamaica wishes to express its condolences to the family and friends of Marcia Bowen who died on Saturday, April 26, after battling cancer.
The Manley Memoirs - Mixed memories on the home front
When I was a child, we lived in sections of rented houses mainly in east Kingston - Rollington Town and Franklin Town. These were lower middle-class areas with stinking open drains, and yet the smells I remember are of mangoes rather than sewage and, inevitably, my mother's abiding Jeyes fluid and Dettol.
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