Job losses soar - Up to 30,000 sent home since start of the economic crisis
As the industrial relations landscape continues to take a battering from the stormy economic climate, it is estimated that up to 30,000 Jamaicans have lost their jobs since the global crisis unleashed its effects over a year ago. Prominent players in the labour arena...
- Long journey for work
- PM wants credit reports - Golding pushes for law to track borrowers
- Looking for luck on the triple nine
- Rodney Chin to testify today
- Armadale enquiry - Lack of officers added to list of flaws
- Bird excels with flying colours
- Angry cops should turn in their guns - counsellor
- Technology show set to be a hit in November
- PNP tries to get it right for annual conference
- NEWS BRIEFS
- Diaspora group to set up St James diabetes lobby
Fitting in, despite ...Thompson's first day not void of hiccups
Shanice Thompson, a new student of Dunoon Park Technical, was excited about her first day, but she was also worried. Shanice's auxiliary fees were not paid so she would not be given the rental textbooks at the school. Her mother, Pansie Richards, said due to financial...
- Charity not in recession
- Shaw urges teachers, nurses to be reasonable
- What keeps you connected?
- Blogging Rights - High-tech health risks - Could your latest gadget be compromising your well-being?
- Sandals to boost service at new Bahamas property
- Jamaica Legion on $4.5m poppy mission
- Jamaican takes aim at New York council
- Fingerprint system to be upgraded
- Spaldings High celebrates CSEC success
- Lime Hall Primary rage
Grace has money to back First Global - Industry sources say $1-billion capital injection needed
The GraceKennedy group continues to declare its intention to stand firmly behind its First Global Bank (FGB), but chairman Douglas Orane has stopped short of any comment on the level of cash injection, which financial sources say is likely to be required in the face...
- Companies vie for LNG contracts - What is being pursued are arrangements and understandings - source
- CREIT looking forward to income from T&T hotel - Carlton Savannah now in operation
- New launch date for Scotia DBG's bond fund
- Big budget cut for gov't youth-job programme
- Gov't technocrats flay JPS over energy price - State advisers urge quick replacement of old generators
- I am not bitter, says axed JTI head
- Stephenson leaving FCJ
- Trinidad boosts drilling as gas reserves drop
- Opposition knocks TT$44-billion budget
- Global crisis hits Trinidad economy - First quarter GDP declines 3%
- Eyeing jobs overseas? - Hopes up for 2010
Boundlessly devoted to Jamaica
MIAMI, Florida (CMC): Two-time Olympic champion, Veronica Campbell-Brown, has pledged her commitment to her native Jamaica and was thrilled about the success of her fellow female athletes at the recent World Championships. Campbell-Brown admitted...
- Minister promises fullbacking to netballers
- Sunday evening stroll for Mullings, Bailey
- Semenya's gender results expected soon
- Murray crashes out of US Open
- Headley inducted into Hall of Fame
- Neish, Smith raise profile of Manchester umpires
- Lankans crush Kiwis by 97 runs
- SPORTS BRIEFS
EDITORIAL - Hunte, Ramnarine must go
In an official biography on its website, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) describes its president, Julian Hunte, as "a skilled and accomplished diplomat with extensive experience in the multilateral process". Perhaps that was some time ago, maybe when...
- What is leadership?
- Potential economic impact of casino gambling in Jamaica - Worldwide trends in casino gaming
LETTER OF THE DAY - Toll could crash
THE EDITOR, Sir: When the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 was being introduced, the 'government in waiting' (the Jamaica Labour Party) argued that the Government (the People's National Party) was being unfair to the people of that part of St Catherine by imposing a charge...
- Dons rule our 'failed state'
- 'More gal', little progress
- Being different isn't illegal
- MoBay traffic changes worrying
A season of song, dance and drama
YOU GET much more than song from the Jamaican Folk Singers in their 2009 concert season titled Uplift Jamaica. You also get dance, drama and great visual pleasure from colourful costumes, which are changed frequently throughout the show...
Mother has the baby blues
New motherhood is a joyous occasion for many women. However for some mothers, this life-changing experience can be overwhelming, or even stressful. By some estimates, up to 85 per cent of women experience post-partum blues...
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