Casino delay - Global financial turmoil creates investor uncertainty
The Government's plan to introduce casino gambling is way behind schedule and doubt has been raised that one of the two entities expected to feature in the initial stages seems set to pull out. In April 2008, Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced that legislation to introduce casino...
- Critical change made to Clarke ruling - lawyers
- Young, bright and energy conscious - Westmoreland pair brings fresh ideas to consultation
- Employees working to reopen Milk River Hotel
- Gaping holes at Inland Revenue Department
- Becoming a 'road model' - Safety unit reports good response to CARD campaign
- Women have to play role in societal change - Campbell
- ROVING WITH LALAH
- US installs radiation detectors at Kingston port
- Brothers against unemployment - Home-grown brothers start school in rural community
JetBlue eyes NY-Kgn route
WESTERN BUREAU: United States-based JetBlue Airways will in October begin a non-stop service between Kingston and New York. The announcement was made by Rob Maruster, JetBlue's senior vice-president of customer services, after the airline made its inaugural...
- Weighty woes burden children - Worry over students as they pack on the pounds
- Making others happy
- OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP NEIGHBOURS
- Portland crash survivor gets two-bedroom house
- BRIEFS: Grade-four tests rescheduled
- Officials sign pact for construction of Portmore hospital
- Male ward at Black River Hospital remodelled
- Despite Labour Day makeover ...St Ann's Bay Hospital still a sickly sight
- MILK River drenched
- Portland infirmary receives facelift
- Mentorship programme gives hope
- Remittances to assist education
- Child abuse cases skyrocket
Shell's top gas executive resigns - Passed over for top job
The top gas executive and highest-ranking woman at Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Linda Cook, is stepping down June 1, the company said Tuesday, without giving a reason.Cook, 50, was a candidate to replace Chief Executive Jeroen van der...
- US$200m investment values Facebook at US$10b
- 'Hold your tongue' Medvedev takes jab at finance minister
- US consumer confidence soars in May, home prices fall
- Morgan Stanley trader fined, banned
- JMA sides with cement importers
- Chavez predicts return to US$100 oil
- Spirits brands untouched - Red Stripe tags $7 on beer prices
- Tastee, not Juici, at heart of patty quarrel - Both seeking market in Trinidad
- Carlton Savannah on the market - CREIT says Trinidad hotel to open July
- Lascelles gets partial blame for late Angostura accounts
- Lascelles reports $3b fall in value of investments - Says full value of AIC Barbados bonds will be recovered
- COK, AIR partner on micro loan plan
- US-Cuba thaw may mean compensation for lost assets - US$7 billion of property at stake
- Grenada defaults on Taiwanese loan - Penalty grows at US$5,000 per day
- Cuba plans energy blackouts - Cuts economic growth forecast
Tour ends winless - Windies' miserable sojourn in England closes with another big loss
BIRMINGHAM, England (AP): West Indies' miserable tour of England continued yesterday when they were beaten by 58 runs in the third and final one-day international at Edgbaston. The defeat condemned the visitors to a 2-0 defeat in the series...
- Wadadah, Brazil aiming for victory
- 'It is absolutely not true' - Bucknor rubbishes reports about tackling Burrell for JFF presidency
- Barca, Man U in star-studded showdown
- Wolfpack take aim at Central Flames
- Jamaica shift focus to Olympics
- Reggae Boyz back in training
- Williams aims for sub-49
- BRIEFS: Tyson tragedy
EDITORIAL - Negotiating the debt, matter of urgency
There is an obvious, and deepening, domestic consensus that Jamaica faces an intractable debt crisis, which insists upon some form of concession from creditors if the country is not to sink under the weight of the problem. There is disagreement...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Industry players should stimulate real-estate market
The Editor, Sir: I noted with interest the Letter of the Day of May 15, regarding a stimulus package for the real estate industry. The Realtors Association of Jamaica (RAJ) has a point - the Government should reduce taxes on real-estate transactions sooner than January 2010 ...
- Oh, fathers, enlighten us!
- Kudos to Garvey Maceo High
- Allison Pearson an inspiration
- Canadian still loves Jamaica
- Jamaicans not 'wicked and bad'
- Pointers to reviving the Jamaican economy
- Vulgarity on wheels
- Earning our way out of debt
- Backyard farming, a positive step
- Pay more attention to wards of the State
- Uplifting journalism
'An Evening of the Classics' to help children
In a speech at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel on Sunday evening, Lorna Golding, chairperson of the Jamaica Early Childhood Development Foundation, reminded a packed ballroom of her "passion" for the foundation with which she has been working over the last year. ...
- Hot 'Two The Hard Way' at Calabash
- Derek Walcott gets poetic justice
- THEATRE REVIEW - Dream Merchant a dream come true
- Something extra
My child is smoking weed
How does cannabisaffect the brain? Cannabis increases several chemicals in the brain; one of these is called dopamine. When the level of dopamine is increased, there is a sense of well-being and relaxation. High levels of dopamine are also associated with mental problems....
- My child's a picky eater
- Feeding your child
- Carbohydrate'sfat-burning power
- Exercises that worked for Tanny
- Letters
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Becoming an employeeof exceptional value
COMPANIES WILL seek to retain employees who, by virtue of their knowledge, skills and attitudes, can help the organisation grow and survive.Generally speaking, the more employees contribute and the more functions they can perform, the more valuable they...
Spencer adamant about Mount Obama
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): The Baldwin Spencer administration is pushing ahead with plans to rename Antigua's highest peak - Boggy Peak - after United States President Barack Obama.The August 4 renaming ceremony coincides with Obama's 48th birthday...
Obama picks Hispanic judge for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP):United States President Barack Obama yesterday nominated judge Sonia Sotomayor to become America's first Hispanic Supreme Court justice, in his first opportunity to shape the country's powerful top tribunal.Obama's selection ...
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