JLP calls for details of loans
JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) spokesman on finance Audley Shaw wants the Finance Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, to provide details of the loans he announced in Parliament on Tuesday. The Minister told the House of Representatives about loans totalling US$325...

Caribbean Bar leaders to meet on CCJ
CARICOM attorneys-general will be inviting the presidents of the regional Bar and Law associations to a meeting in August to flesh out issues relating to establishing a Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ). Speaking at a press briefing yesterday at the...

NIS funds to buy hotel

THE GOVERNMENT is to purchase the Grand Lido Braco hotel in Trelawny for US$23 million (J$1 billion) with funds from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS). Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Horace Dalley, told the House of...

Focus on literacy at primary level

CHAIRMAN Of the National Council on Education (NCE), Professor Rex Nettleford, says the Government's thrust to provide quality education at all levels of the system must begin with its ability to achieve improved and acceptable levels of literacy at the..

Church honours JSIF

THE CHURCH of God of Prophecy in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands presented the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) with an award for its outstanding contribution to poverty alleviation and community development in Jamaica. The award was made at its...