Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Sunday | May 3, 2009
Not so full of gas - Investigation shows some motorists being cheated out of precious fuel
A Sunday Gleaner-Univer-sity of the West Indies (UWI) investigative team has found that gas pumps surveyed recently were delivering less gas than motorists actually paid for. Read More...
Judge calls for more protection for road users
A judge has pointed out that there is no law to make the Government liable when persons are injured or motor vehicles damaged due to the State's failure to maintain the roads.Supreme Court Judge Ingrid Mangatal made the... Read More...
Davies not convinced JLP admin will use Opposition suggestions
Former finance minister Dr Omar Davies is apparently not very optimistic that the Government will take on board proposals made by the Opposition in its contribution to the Budget Debate.Davies, in his presentation last week, suggested a raft of ways in... Read More...
Flu frenzy - Swine flu pandemic no threat to local agriculture
PRESIDENT OF the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) Norman Grant says there is no obvious threat at this time to the island's agricultural industry from the Influenza A H1N1... Read More...
Bureau passes gas pumps
NO GAS pump has been rejected by the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) since the start of the year.Fay Bailey, inspectorate manager at the BSJ, said 2009 has been free flowing so far. Read More...
Robbed at the pump
ONE OF my greatest fears as a female motorist is for my car to shut off on the road, especially during peak hours and at a stop light. So when I left my house this cloud-blanketed afternoon, I know that my first stop would have to be at the gas station. Read More...
How does the BSJ protect you at the gas pumps?
THE EQUIPMENT used to test the accuracy of gas station pumps include working standards, testing and stamping equipment. Read More...
Libel law criminalises journalists - PAJ
PRESS ASSOCIATION of Jamaica President Byron Buckley has called on legislators to move quickly to reform Jamaica's anachronistic libel and defamation laws which, he notes, could result in the imprisonment of journalists. In a message to mark World Press... Read More...
UNESCO hosts press freedom forum
THE UNITED Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean will host a public forum tomorrow to celebrate World Press Freedom Day, which is being observed today, May 3. Read More...
World Press Freedom Day message from UN Secretary General
ARTICLE 19 Of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees everyone the right 'to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers'. Read More...
