Jamaica Gleaner Lead Stories
Published: Monday Friday | September 25, 2009
'Not so high, JPS' - OUR approves lowered rate increase - Bigger bills to come in November
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has begrudgingly accepted the Office of Utilities Regulation's (OUR) decision to hold the increase on the non-fuel portion of electricity bills to three per cent. This is way below the 23 per cent average increase... Read More...
'Have we no shame?' - Nicholson calls UK comments on the Privy Council reason enough to move to CCJ
Statements attributed to a high-profile judge in the United Kingdom (UK) have given the parliamentary Opposition renewed fillip to push for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to be used as Jamaica's final appellate court instead of the London-based Privy Council... Read More...
Microsoft spends big on Carib technology - Jamaica continues to impress at the Latin America Innovative Educators Forum
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: Information technology giant Microsoft has earmarked US$10 million per year over the next five years for the upgrade and further expansion of the use of technology in education systems across Latin America and the Caribbean... Read More...
Guilty verdict surprises defence - Stephen Fray's parents hope for the best when sentence is handed down
WESTERN BUREAU: Young Dominique Fray wept uncontrollably for her brother and attorney George Thomas seemed listless, shocked and disappointed by the guilty verdict that was slapped on his client, convicted hijacker Stephen Fray, in the Western Regional Gun Court yesterday... Read More...
Nurses back on the job
Normality should return to the public-health sector today as protesting nurses agreed to begin heading back to work yesterday. Sparked by a letter from Audley Shaw, minister of finance and the public service, which informed that implementation... Read More...
'We apologise!' - Fray's family sorry for embarrassment to Jamaica
WESTERN BUREAU:The family of accused would-be hijacker, Stephen Fray, has apologised to the nation for any embarrassment the April 19 incident may have put the country through. Fray is facing 10 counts of gun-related charges in the Western Regional ... Read More...
CDF cut almost in half - MPs to get $20 million to spend in their constituencies this year
The Government has slashed almost 50 per cent off the allocation for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), leaving each member of parliament with only $20 million to spend this fiscal year. The first Supplementary Estimates of expenditure... Read More...
NEWS BRIEFS
Bus driver finally in custody - The search is over for the driver of the Hiace bus that struck and killed a seven-year-old boy along the Mandela Highway in St Catherine last Tuesday.Winston Taylor was handed over to the Central Village police about 2 p.m. Read More...
NEWS BRIEFS
LIME has new CFO - Gerard Borely, a Trinidad national, is the new LIME chief financial officer (CFO). Borely will be responsible for strategy, planning and the effective integration of the financial systems of all LIME markets.A press release said Borely... Read More...
