Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories

Published: Monday Monday | February 2, 2009

Jamaica slips again - Country downgraded in Competitiveness Report - Crime, bureaucracy cited as major factors
An unabated murder toll and a high level of employee theft are being cited for Jamaica's increasingly uncompetitive position in the global business arena. Jamaica's competitiveness was downgraded for the second year in a row by the World Economic Forum, dropping eight places...

Life behind bars tough for parents
Sherine Sewell is miserable, angry, frustrated and fed up about being in prison and unable to communicate or have a relationship with her six children.Sewell, 34, said she has been incarcerated at the Fort Augusta Correctional Centre since 2006 ...

Tax reform needed for Jamaica's growth - JCTU president
NEWLY ELECTED president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Lloyd Goodleigh, has listed tax reform as a key element required for putting Jamaica on a path to growth.Speaking during the JCTU fourth annual congress at the Jamaica Conference Centre...

Portia lashes Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) on jobs
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has hit hard at the Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration for reneging on its promise to provide jobs, which was a focal point of the party's 2007 general election...

Thumbs up for Manning
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago's local banking sector has given the thumbs up to the Patrick Manning administration's decision to come to the rescue of CL Financial.In a statement issued on the weekend, the Bankers' Association of Trinidad and Tobago...

Take the risk factors seriously - health minister
February is being observed as heart month and Health Minister Rudyard Spencer has urged Jamaicans to take the risk factors seriously, in an effort to reduce the number of persons dying from the disease.Spencer said the observance of February as Heart...