Jamaica Gleaner News
Published: Monday Sunday | April 19, 2009
Jamaica celebrates fifth year of Canadian tourist growth
WESTERN BUREAU:DESPITE THE current economic challenges afflicting the global travel and tourism industry, Canada continues to outpace Jamaica's other source markets, except the United States (US), solidifying... Read More...
Verbal blows dominate Parliament
THERE WAS an abundance of jabs, barbs and dissent - some clever - others tactless, from members of the House of Representatives while the examination of the 2009-2010 estimates of expenditure was being conducted last week.Roger Clarke, central... Read More...
Recording parliamentary history
FOR 30 YEARS, Dessler Smith has edited Hansard, the official records of Parliament, and has seen the best and worst of debates over the period.Smith, who virtually established the editorial section of Parliament in... Read More...
'Plea-bargaining may ease backlog of cases'
HIGH COURT Judge Martin Gayle has made a special appeal for the speedy implementation of case management and plea-bargaining in criminal matters to reduce the huge backlog of cases which has been slowing down the justice... Read More...
JTI stages business formalisation workshop
JAMAICA TRADE and Invest's (JTI) Export Centre and Business Information Point (EC/BIP) facility, in association with the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) and the Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO), will stage a workshop on 'Business... Read More...
Whitehouse residents to get help with relocation
EASTERN WESTMORELAND member of Parliament (MP) Luther Buchanan says work has begun to relocate five families whose houses were bulldozed by the state on Friday."I have assembled a small team and have given them instructions to... Read More...
The week that was: April 11-18
CLOSE TO a year after Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton prescribed cassava as an antidote to Jamaica's farm crisis, Northern Caribbean University (NCU) researchers have found that some local cassava food products may be unsafe... Read More...
New careers for farmers
Vocational and skills training is being provided through existing programmes at HEART Trust/NTA and partner institutions for former farmers who are in need of new areas of earning.The 15-month project began in October 2008 and will end in December... Read More...
