Unapproved deal - Shaw blasts Davies over salary agreement with JTA - Says Cabinet did not endorse plan for increase
Finance and Public Service Minister Audley Shaw has accused his predecessor of signing an "open-ended agreement" with the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) in 2006, without Cabinet endorsement. Shaw charged yesterday that Dr Omar Davies unilaterally gave approval for a company ...
High-school dropouts to get second chance at employment
Over the next four years, some 10,000 unemployed Jamaican youths, many of whom are high-school dropouts, will be given a second chance at establishing a career. Twenty-five-year-old Carletta Green, a resident of Orange district in St James, is one of them...
Montego Bay doctor on rape charge
WESTERN BUREAU: A prominent Montego Bay-based doctor was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $250,000 in the city's Resident Magistrate's Court on a charge of rape.Dr Garfield Campbell, a 34-year-old family practitioner who operates his private practice...
Two Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) workers suspended
WESTERN BUREAU: The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has suspended two of its employees who were arrested in Montego Bay, St James, yesterday afternoon for allegedly collecting money from a customer with an irregularity at his business place...
'Sherlock' residents grapplewith shooting deaths at club
A CRY for justice echoed across Sherlock Crescent in Duhaney Park, St Andrew, yesterday, as residents continued to struggle to deal with the fatal shooting of two of their neighbours in a nightclub Monday morning. William Willberforce and Lynchmore Forbes were among four persons...
'Corruption rife at Kingston seaport'
Following another major drug bust at the wharves on Tuesday, narcotics chief, Senior Superintendent Carlton Wilson, has concluded that corruption is now at the highest level at the Kingston seaport. But the vice-president in charge of public relations at the Port Authority...
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