'Senseless' - International airline body against departure-tax increase
Western Bureau: The Government has come under fire from the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is objecting to the unexpected increase in departure tax that became effective yesterday. Strongly protesting the decision, the association...
- Athletics celebrations kick off tonight
- Clean coal coming for north coast
- Same problems, different decade
- Facelift for New Seville Heritage Park
- Rhone laid to rest
- Victoria Jubilee gets ready for week of celebrations
- New look NYS coming - Opposition raises questions, Government defends youth service budget cut
- Sweet repeat for Davian
The arrival of the Germans (Part 2)
The following is Part 2 of a republication of an article written by Dr Rebecca Tortello, as part of The Gleaner's 'Pieces of the Past' feature. Part 1 was published yesterday.
Seaford Town, named after Lord Seaford, is found in the Westmoreland hills some 25 miles from Montego Bay.
- 'We will tell IMF' - Opposition warns Government to make sure estimates are credible
- Access to information needs to be more public
- Ministry launches public ed programme
- 'A raisin in the sun' - Mother's death slows teen's progress
- 'I would do it all over'
- VMBS, HWT back in full swing Monday
CL Financial faces US$188m margin call - Trustee demands action on depleting US$240m bond account
Troubled CL Financial Limited has been given two weeks by Port of Spain-based RBTT Trust Limited to replenish an account which has fallen short of a 150 per cent margin that the conglomerate is required to maintain as backing for bonds floated last year...
- Red Stripe banking on overseas drinkers for sales growth - Light beer to be launched in US
- TransJamaican lands US$70m IDB loan - To extend toll road, pay down debt
- Digicel hits 10-million mark
- Compensate your customers, Broadcasting Commission tells cable companies
- Deficit target revised to 8.7% - Jamaica facing bloated debt, wage bill and falling tax revenue
- COMMENTARY - Transplanting technology for Caribbean development
- LatAm, Caribbean post-crisis, a chance not to be wasted
- Movements
'VCB' a Goodwill Ambassador
Jamaica's most decorated female athlete, Veronica Campbell-Brown, is now a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. Goodwill ambassadors are celebrity advocates of UNESCO who use their talent or fame to spread the organisation's ideals, especially attracting media attention....
- Healthy boost for PLCA
- Bottles rain as Cornwall clip St James
- KC edge Innswood
- Wenger, Gunner for life?
- FIFA fires GFA executive and orders new elections
- Confident Girls aiming for World Fast Net title
- Hop on City Train
- Purses move up at Caymanas tomorrow
- Todd heads trainers
- JCA wants lights at Sabina Park by 2012
- Juniors get Dream House sponsorship
EDITORIAL - Mona's embryonic model
There is, in the 2008 audited accounts for the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), a significant, but insufficiently discussed, line item representing income of $1.22 billion.What, to us, is important about this figure is, first, that it represented earnings...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Time for bitter medicine
The Editor, Sir: The time has come for much-needed but unpopular changes to the socio-economic conditions prevailing in Jamaica - in other words, it's time for 'bitter medicine'. or too long successive administrations have rescheduled these inevitable adjustments ...
- The Jamaican spay-neuter programme
- Before you cut the Cabinet ...
- Highway 2000's heavy toll
- Celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's ideals
- This is what I meant
- More senseless policies
- JTB chairman ignoring essential points
ASHE begins 'Sweet 16' season with a dose of reality
The ASHE Performing Arts Company is known for its energetic, but sometimes controversial productions. On Tuesday the company began its 2009 season with the restaging of Curfew - The Musical, a production that is real in content but uncomfortable for some....
US Embassy says thanks
Journalism is sometimes a thankless profession. When you probe deeply to uncover the wrong, people say 'yu too fast'. Get the facts incorrect, people say you're careless and need to do your homework. So whenever the press gets a big 'thank you' from somebody, anybody...
INDONESIA - Earthquake death toll rises to 777
Indonesia (AP): Rescue workers pulled victims, some screaming in pain, from the heavy rubble of buildings felled by a powerful earthquake that a government official said killed at least 777 people.
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