Jamaica Gleaner News- Lead Stories - Tuesday

Bauxite blow - Economic climate forces Windalco to send home 150 workers

The worsening global financial meltdown is continuing to have a devastating impact on the local bauxite industry with another 150 employees set to lose their jobs. This time, it is the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) which is sending home workers and comes months...

Concession brings barrels of profit

Jamaicans who yesterday went to the wharves to clear their barrels welcomed Prime Minister Bruce Golding's decision to remove duties from personal effects not exceeding US$3,000 (J$237,000).Sylvan Vassell was expecting to pay $20,000 to clear the four barrels ...

Food prices out of the poor's reach

Approximately $1,000. That is how much it costs, excluding general consumption tax, to purchase 10 of the basic food items consumed by the most vulnerable. That amount of money is a little less than one-third of the $3,700 weekly minimum wage.

Delinquent taxpayers slow down Trelawny's development

WESTERN BUREAU: Colin Gager, mayor of Falmouth and chairman of the Trelawny Parish Council, has said delinquent property taxpayers are preventing the council from providing some basic services to citizens of the parish...

Rescue plan to bleed Government $862m

The Government is projected to lose some $862 million in revenues for the remainder of the fiscal year as a result of the massive relief package announced by Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Sunday. The biggest cut comes from the tourism sector...

Tufton refuses to chicken out

Dr Christopher Tufton, agriculture minister, has maintained his stance that the decision to import chicken parts was to protect consumers. The minister called a press conference at the ministry's head office on Hope Road, St Andrew, yesterday, to clarify...

Golding gets flak for relief package

A day after Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced a rescue plan for the country's economy, which is being battered by turbulent world economic seas, some stakeholders are painting his intervention as incomplete.Michael Williams, general secretary...

Holidays from my childhood

The goat and the gungo - It was Christmas in the small town of Milk River, Clarendon, when the neighbour's goats ate my grandmother Celia's gungo trees to the ground. The gungo she was planning to use to make the usual gungo peas and rice for dinner....