Cassava wanted - Shortage of tubers before holidays worries producers - Demand sends processors rallying for duty-free imports
LESS THAN two years after Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton urged Jamaicans to make greater use of cassava, heavy demands for the tuber have sent agro processors scurrying for a duty-free licence...
- Hand, foot and mouth disease hits St Andrew school
- Smith being sought for PNP's ticket
- Bar clampdown - Police to enforce operating hours and dress code for bartenders
- Fray to serve 20 years
- Christie sends Mabey and Johnson report to DPP
- Customs seizes $38m worth of ganja - Woman charged in unrelated cocaine bust
Granville tops Trelawny - Larieca Harvey earns parish champion final in close finish with classmate
IT WAS a Granville Primary one-two yesterday. Lariecia Harvey and Nigel Phillips went head-to-head until the former was declared winner in what must have been a bittersweet victory for teacher Cassandra Scott and the entire Granville Primary family...
- Adriena gets one over on former champion
- NIF hasn't bungled - Charles
- PAC backs off - Solicitor General advises Parliament to stop probe into PCJ affair
- PM waits for the next Budget - Public sector workers' fate to be decided in April; Shaw signs billion-dollar deal
- Nurses forced to wait again
- Gleaner remembers Wycliffe Bennett
Risk system overhaul, expansion at First Global - Growth plans, new group compliance platform spurred by crisis
Executives of GraceKennedy's banking outfit, First Global Bank (FGB), insist that growth plans had always been on the table, but acknowledge that the recent US$19-million (J$1.6 billion) bond trading loss has jolted the bank into bringing forward a blueprint for the expansion...
- ECB, BoE leave rates at record low
- Pegasus sale advisers begin review of proposals
- Goodyear shareholder compensation on the way - First payout: $3.75 per share
- UWI economic forum - Economist wary of IMF - Academic, analysts suggest different approach to containing debt
- NCB to close five of nine agencies - To redeploy employees
- JLA feed inventory decimated by theft - Staff replaced, rebuilding begins
- Insurance companies get green light to sell foreign-currency policies
- Combating Jamaica's recession
- Issues that constrain the OCG
- MOVEMENTS
Girls ready to shine at Fast Net
A confident Sunshine Girls team will bow into action on today's opening day of the first staging of the World Series Fast Net Championships in Manchester, England."We are very confident because we know that we have a good opportunity to win this championships...
- Birmingham group cements ties with Jamaica
- St James advance
- Do or die for Jago, KC
- Big card at Barbican tomorrow
- Mexico may be first to qualify from CONCACAF
- Gardner hungry for more goals
- Delay in decision on Sydney relay medals
- Samardo's time to deliver
- SVL puts up more for 2 y-o series
EDITORIAL - Significant hints of change on the CCJ
A significant statement by Prime Minister Bruce Golding this week which could well signal an important and pragmatic policy shift on the part of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) administration appears, somehow, to have sailed below the radar of national discourse...
LETTER OF THE DAY - Nurses being held to ransom
The Editor, Sir: Registered nurses (RNs) in Jamaica are currently faced with some of the most severe hardships experienced by them over the last three decades.This category of nursing personnel is the most highly trained of all...
- Date changed by Roman Catholics
- That extradition request
- The perception of justice
- Doing Shearer a disservice
- Distortions in abortion debate
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival now seven days
The Jamaica Tourist Board, Rose Hall Developments and Air Jamaica have partnered once again with TurnKey Productions for a seven-day Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival in Montego Bay. The announcement was made last week at the event's New York launch...
- 'Kiss Mi Neck' another album - Yasus Afari launches poetry collection in UK
- Red Stripe Bold Escape set for Heroes' weekend
- Something extra
MoBay says, Welcome back, Doug Brooks
WESTERN BUREAU: The affable Doug Brooks is to return to the tourism capital, Montego Bay, after a two-year stint in the Corporate Area. The former Tryall Club managing director and general manager of the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall returns as head of the new 700-room...
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